Education Groups for Men Who Batter: The Duluth Model

By Michael Paymar and Ellen L. Pence

Book Overview

Pence and Paymar are right on target again. Their analysis of battering is excellent and their approach...is straightforward, useful and clear. [The book] tells you what to do with abusive men and how to do it well. [The authors] challenge practitioners to do their work in a manner that is compassionate yet never colluding. Accountability and safety to battered women and creating a process of change for abusive men are central to its success.
--Susan Schechter,
author of Women and Male Violence

"Drawing upon years of experience...Pence and Paymar have written a practical and conceptually sound curriculum for batterers' groups. This book offers an effective guide to both the beginning facilitator and the experienced clinician for engaging batterers in the lifelong process of changing their intimate relationships, from those based on coercive control to those based on equality. [They] accomplish this task without compromising their commitment to advocacy with battered women."
--Anne L. Ganley, PhD, Domestic Violence Program
Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center

Presents the most comprehensive and successful methods for working with men who batter. Mixing discussion, self-analysis and opportunities for learning new behaviors, this well-mapped-out intervention strategy helps counselors hold men accountable while teaching non-abusive behaviors."
--Fernando Merderos,
Executive Director of Common Purpose, Boston, MA

Education Groups for Men Who Batter is a curriculum and a methodology which unequivocally identifies the exercise of violent and coercive tactics against women in intimate relationships as intentional, strategic behavior....[It] is an essential training tool for all actors in the justice and human services systems. Only when tactics of control are seen as intentional intimate terrorism can these systems construct responses effectively to end the violence."
--Barbara J. Hart,
Esq., Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Presents the leading approach to undoing men's abuse of women...The Duluth Model has pioneered an approach based on the experiences of abused women and consequently tailored to their circumstances. It tackles the social dimensions of woman abuse more directly and decisively than any of the psychological or skill-building approaches circulating in the field."
-- Edward W. Gondolf,
author of Men Who Batter, Battered Women as Survivors, and Psychiatric Response to Family Violence

"The Duluth Model has inspired activists all over the world, and its principles are being followed in programs in several countries. We predict that this book will become the standard text for those who work with men who batter."
--Rebecca Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash
authors of Violence Against Wives; Women, Violence and Social Change; and Women Viewing Violence

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826179908
• ISBN13: 9780826179906
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Must have if you counsel men who batter.

I am myself a recovering batterer. I began my process of change well over ten years ago after attending a Duluth Model program at the Center for Nonviolence in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Previously I had attended two six month long Anger Management Programs conducted by PhD Psychologists and MSW's. Today I conduct a batterers program myself using the Duluth Model outlined and explained in this book. This program has changed my life.