This guide and its accompanying participant's workbook, On the Level, distill the best of fifteen years of experience by one of the nation's largest, most comprehensive programs for men who have perpetrated domestic violence. Social workers, domestic abuse treatment programs, probation offices, and counselors in allied fields will find this a complete guide to facilitating a domestic abuse treatment program with time-proven success.
This 240-page guide contains twenty-nine activities, detailed guidelines for presenting each one, and a discussion of the psychological issues that arise out of each activity. Also included are tips for intake and individual counseling, facilitating groups, cofacilitation, working with resistant clients, counseling diverse groups of men, and recommended policies and releases.
The 160-page participant's workbook contains forty-nine worksheets to accompany the activities, including mid-term and final evaluations. The workbook is designed so that participants in the program can keep a record of their insights and progress as they build a new foundation for violence-free living. (Workbook sold separately.)