For Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, LPCs,
and Others Who Conduct BIP Groups

Saturday, November 2, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 3 p.m.
on the Zoom Platform

Presented by John Hamel

Completion of a Batterer Intervention Program (BIP), primarily offered in the psycho-educational group format, is mandated throughout the United States for men and women who have pled guilty to a domestic violence offense. In this special, live 5-hour training, John Hamel shares with you more than 30 years of research and clinical experience, having conducted or supervised hundreds of BIP groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Topics include:

• BIPs and the criminal justice response to domestic violence
• Early theories on best practices and what went wrong
• Domestic violence as a complex problem and offenders as heterogeneous population
• Lessons from research on psychotherapy outcome studies
• Identifying what works rather than what is the best theory
• Findings from The North Amrican Survey of BIP facilitators
• Essential components of a group curriculum
• Focus groups: Offenders and group facilitators share their experiences
• Facilitating groups: What works
• Keeping offenders and providers accountable

5 Hours CEUs Available