Batterer intervention providers, anger management counselors, mental health professionals, and research scholars dedicated to evidence-based practice worldwide.
My name is Tom DiBlasi and I am an Assistant Professor at Long Island University (LIU) where I study anger and aggression. I am interested in improving anger management outcomes, as it tends to not be as effective as approaches for anxiety and depression. I am looking to work with clinical samples, and need help from clinicians like you. Working with multiple clinicians and sites, I would like to use pre-test measures, post-test measures, and then follow clients after they finish treatments (with their consent of course). My research team and I would do the work of following up with clients, we would just need your help to recruit participants. Please let me know if you are interested in learning more.
I wanted to get in touch as I felt this is a topic that could be relevant for you and your colleagues.
Can you please confirm if you or your colleagues would like to attend this webinar. If you are interested to attend, please fill in your details in the attached registration form and send it back to me and I will do the rest. Alternatively, please click here to register online.
Confirmed Speakers
Chelsea Lee Byers, Vice-Mayor of West Hollywood, California; Director of Programs and Partnership, Women’s Voices Now
Ani Zonneveld, Founder, Muslims for Progressive Values
Dr. Don Dutton, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Psychology.
Jennifer Rodriguez, Program Director, Florida Department of Children and Families
Timothy Cordova, Police officer, Los Angeles Police Department
Diana Dominguez, Domestic violence advocate, Domestic Abuse Response Team
Programme
Analyze existing intimate partner and domestic violence policies and uncover any lack of inclusion.
Discuss the lack of services provided for those in the LGBTQ+ community and lack of shelters for survivors based on sexual identity or orientation.
Learn ways that healthcare workers might receive more policy awareness, education, and resources to help victims.
Analyze current violence awareness campaigns and programs in schools and discuss ways to improve the level of prevention awareness among the youth.
Discuss ways that lower-income communities and minority groups can attain access to services for victim and prevention awareness programs.
Look at the impact that statistics in domestic violence have on implementing new legislative policies that have consequences for perpetrators.
I am pleased to announce that the Power Point presentation slides for our recent conference are now available on our website, www.domesticviolenceintervention.net
Our next conference is less than two months away, on June 14, so you may want to register sooner than later, and please tell your friends and colleagues! This year, the focus will be on domestic violence around the world, including prevalence rates, risk factors, and consequences for victims, as well as the BIP and other intervention strategies used outside the United States.
The conference will take place on the Zoom platform, beginning at 8 a.m. U.S. Pacific Standard Time.
I wanted to let all ADVIP members know ahead of the formal marketing campaign that this year’s conference will be held on Friday, June 14. The theme of this event is “Domestic violence worldwide: Prevalence, causes, consequences, and treatment.” I will be one of the contributing presenters, giving an overview of best practices in batterer intervention, after which my colleague Esteban Esquivel-Santovena and his team will present on what is happening in the DV field outside the United States, Canada and the U.K., with an overview of Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. These presentations are based on recent scholarly research to be included in the latest update of the Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project, the world’s largest single free-access data base of information about domestic violence.
As with our previous conferences, there will be a registration discount for ADVIP members.
On October 27, I hosted our latest semi-annual ADVIP meeting, via the Zoom platform, and also presented a seminar, “Applying Lisa Feldman Barrett’s Theory of Emotions to Batterer Intervention.
As I discussed with those in attendance, our organization now has over 300 members, in 21 countries around the world, and our recent meeting was joined by three members from outside the United States. I continue to manage, with my IT person, Eric Bobrow, the ADVIP website, and am willing to do so indefinitely. It is my pleasure to do my part to advance evidence-based practice, with the goal of further reducing domestic violence around the world.
I propose that our next full conference, which would be our 5th since 2016, be held at some time either in latte spring or early summer, 2024. Once again, it will be a virtual conference, held on the Zoom platform. Please let me know if have suggestions for topics to be covered. These topics should focus on intervention policies, research and/or clinical applications, as well as more general research related to the causes, dynamics, and consequences of domestic violence.
I notice that there has been a drop-off of posts on our blog pages recently. By all means, please take advantage of this means of communicating with your fellow ADVIP members! In particular, I would like to see more reports from the various states, as well as from countries outside the U.S., regarding current or proposed policies on DV, new legislation, or emerging programs. I would also like to know if any of you have read any new books on DV that you recommend, or new research pertaining to batterer intervention.
To post something to the blog, you need to go to the ADVIP home page an click on the link. Let me know if you have any problems doing so. The default password is evidence12, unless you have changed it.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice is inviting applications for an assistant professor position, beginning in the fall of 2024, to join the department of criminal justice and to support a new concentration in the science and practice of public safety. The position will be a central part of designing, launching, and teaching a new research and teaching focus in evidence-based public safety, with initial offerings at the master’s level. Attached is a position description with more information. The closing date for the position is November 10, 2023.
The next general membership meeting of ADVIP will be held sometime in March or April of next year. As before, the meeting will be held on Zoom, and will include a presentation on a topic related to domestic violence and domestic violence intervention. If you have a particular topic you would like to suggest for the training portion of the meeting, please let me know. You can contact me at: johnmhamel@comcast.net.
