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"Can he change? What would it take for him to change?" : a new framework for advocates to help battered women better understand why men are abusive and what it would take for them to change Melissa Scaia and Scott Miller [Webinar]

By: Scaia, Melissa.
Contributor(s): Miller, Scott.
Material type: materialTypeLabelVisual materialPublisher: Duluth, MN : Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, 2015Description: recorded webinar.Subject(s): ABUSED WOMEN | ABUSIVE MEN | ADVOCACY | ATTITUDES | BEHAVIOUR CHANGE | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | DULUTH MODEL | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | UNITED STATESOnline resources: Watch recorded webinar Summary: This recorded videoconference/webinar will provide a tool and method for advocates to help battered women understand why men batter. This webinar will also address and help advocates answer the following questions and statements posed by battered women: If he would just get some help and get better, he would leave me alone and be nicer to our kids. Doesn’t he just need therapy? I think he is bi-polar. I think he needs medication. What if we went to couples counseling? I think we just need to communicate better and learn to compromise. My pastor said he will talk to him and meet with him. I will go, too, if he wants me to. I know he didn’t have the best childhood ever. What if he talks about it with someone? I think if he just talked about his childhood, he would be better. He gets really angry. Is there an anger management program he could go to? All he really needs is treatment. If he just stopped drinking / using drugs he wouldn’t hurt me.(From the website). Handouts are also available. Record #4937
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This recorded videoconference/webinar will provide a tool and method for advocates to help battered women understand why men batter. This webinar will also address and help advocates answer the following questions and statements posed by battered women:

If he would just get some help and get better, he would leave me alone and be nicer to our kids.
Doesn’t he just need therapy?
I think he is bi-polar. I think he needs medication.
What if we went to couples counseling? I think we just need to communicate better and learn to compromise.
My pastor said he will talk to him and meet with him. I will go, too, if he wants me to.
I know he didn’t have the best childhood ever. What if he talks about it with someone? I think if he just talked about his childhood, he would be better.
He gets really angry. Is there an anger management program he could go to?
All he really needs is treatment. If he just stopped drinking / using drugs he wouldn’t hurt me.(From the website). Handouts are also available. Record #4937