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 presented at a wonderful conference in Toronto a few months ago, and all of the presentations are now on video. Great for anyone interested in the topic of family law and responding to domestic violence and child abuse accusations, good parenting, and parental alienation. Go to: https://www.internationalfamiliesalliance.com/recordings/
I’m writing to invite you to participate in a 30- 60-minute phone interview in a study conducted by Rush University in collaboration with the BrotherlyACT project.
Researchers at Rush University are developing BrotherlyACT—an online life skills and mindfulness coaching tool for violence-impacted young Black boys and men (YBM). This intervention aims to equip these young men with personalized life skills and mindfulness tools to navigate high-violence settings, substance use, and minority stressors while linking them to key community services. Our goal is to offer respectful, age-appropriate, and culturally congruent solutions outside of punitive justice system alternatives and to break the cycle of recidivism.
The study is titled “Harnessing Technology to Deliver Online Life-Skills and Mindfulness Coaching for Violence Prevention Services Among Young Black Males,” and it is led by Principal Investigator Chuka Nestor Emezue, Ph.D. This study’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) number is 21122902-IRB01.
We hope you will consider participating in an individual interview to discuss:
Your opinion on factors that encourage or discourage young Black men from engaging with a range of violence and substance use prevention services,
Your interest and thoughts on technology-enabled violence prevention services,
Provide expertise in developing a web-app intervention to address some of these barriers,
Do you think you would like to take part in this research?
If you are interested in this study for yourself (or the young Black men you work with), please contact me with the email below so we can arrange a phone, web conference, or in-person interview (if in Chicago). Each interview will be audio-recorded with permission. You will receive $50 Amazon eGift card (youth participants receive $25 each) as a small token of our appreciation. A study flyer is posted below.
In Kindness,
Chuka Emezue, Ph.D., MPH, MPA, CHES®
Assistant Professor, Rush University College of Nursing,
Brenda Russell, Ph.D., a forensic psychologist at Penn State Berks, and I will soon be sending the final chapter manuscripts to Oxford University Press for publication of our new book, “Intimate partner violence: Beyond the gender paradigm in legal practice and intervention policy.” We are looking for endorsements prior to publication, from individuals involved in DV intervention and criminal justice policy – including legal scholars, judges, attorneys, and anyone involved in the adjudication of these cases. If you know anyone who might be a suitable candidate review our book, please let me know. Your assistance if very much appreciated.
Results of a new study on the role of facilitators in batterer intervention groups has been published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, co-authored by several ADVIP members and colleagues. The full article can be found at: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/PVAAZCNSARBDSCCINUSG/full
Here is the abstract:
IPV Perpetrator Groups: Client Engagement, and the Role of Facilitators
John Hamel, Fred Buttell, Regardt Ferreira, and Valerie Roy
Based on the emerging literature being developed in Motivational Interviewing that suggests certain group process factors and facilitator attributes predict treatment outcomes, this study sought to investigate the relationship between both client and facilitator ratings of the batterer intervention group experience. This study presents data from 16 group facilitators drawn from five agencies and 175 clients being served by these facilitators. The data gathered included both facilitator ratings of clients (i.e., Group Engagement Measure-GEM) and client ratings of facilitators and the group experience (i.e., Client Rating of Facilitator-CRF, Client Perceived Benefits of Group (CPBG). Results indicate that facilitators rated clients as being engaged in the group process across all the domains assessed by the GEM and that
clients viewed the facilitators and group experiences favorably as assessed by the CRF and CPBG. There was no significant correlation between the GEM and CRF or the GEM and CPBG, but there was a strong, positive correlation between the CRF and CPBG. The results here support previous research findings suggesting a strong correlation between client engagement in the therapeutic process, based on their perception of the facilitator, and their perceived benefits of the group experience. Implications of the findings for improving empirical investigations of the batterer intervention group experience were explored and discussed.
Michael Walker Graduate Student Researcher PO BOX 1178 Guerneville, CA 95446 707-536-3608 mwalker@wi.edu My name is Michael Walker, and I am a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. I am currently recruiting participants for a research study for my dissertation. The study is examining THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON LEVELS OF PTSD AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN MEN ATTENDING COURT-MANDATED BATTERER INTERVENTION PROGRAMS. I am looking for participants for my research who meet the following criteria: • Adult males over the age of 18-years-old • Have been charged with perpetrating Domestic Violence • Have been mandated to attend 52 weeks of batterer intervention treatment Participation in the study is entirely voluntary. Volunteers will be compensated $20 for participating. The estimated time commitment to complete the surveys is 2 hours. The proposed study is designed to examine the impact of early childhood abuse and trauma on current levels of PTSD and executive functioning in men who are mandated to a 52-week treatment for intimate partner violence (IPV). Please feel free to contact me with any further questions or concerns regarding the study. And please share this information with anyone you think may be interested. It is my hope that I may be able to find participants through the Adult Probation Officers; through the Domestic Violence Court; and the local Batterer Intervention Programs. This research study is being conducted by Michael Walker, MA., and supervised by Matthew McKay Ph.D. through the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. and Richard Sprott Ph.D.
Hello. After a lengthy delay due to COVID-19 I am finally returning to complete my thesis.
My area of interest is the path of emotionally abusive individuals and their experience of the journey to changed behaviour. I’m new to research and it’s only a Masters degree, so I’m hoping to find a small sample of individuals to interview, taking a case study approach. Something like, ‘How emotionally abusive individuals experience behaviour change.’
I post this in hopes of insight and help for two questions, before I commit to pursuing this line of inquiry:
– what thoughts do you have about the possibility of reaching these individuals (I have connection to two so far)
– if you’re connected to this population, could we connect to discuss sending an invitation out for participants?
Those of you who want to know more about what new research is being conducted around the world on the general topic of aggression may want to check out the most recently ISRA bulletin.
The Bulletin includes a special statement on police aggression and its disproportionate impact on minority population that can also be accessed on the ISRA website. Click here to access this statement directly. We encourage you to disseminate this statement widely to your professional networks.
You can access the ISRA Bulletin (and past Bulletins) on the ISRA website under the “News” tab. You can also access all ISRA Bulletins by clicking here.