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Expressions of Men Who Batter: Implications for Nursing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing

Anne H. Fishel, RN, CS, PhD

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing

Violence against women will not stop untilgreaterprevention and treatment opportu nities are provided the perpetrators of violence. The nursing literature about working with men who batter is nearly nonexistent, and yet nurses in community and psycbiat ric settings are frequently confronted witb family violence and therefore are in oppor tune positions to intervene in a manner that is sensitive to both the perpetrator and the partner. Because nurses work in a variety of settings including schools and indus try, they also can promote awareness of the potential for domestic violence. This clini cal article presents an account of a group treatment program for court-referred men who batter. The program consisted of 12, 2-hour weekly sessions, with new members beginning every 6 weeks. There were two group facilitators, a woman (registered nurse) and a man. Furthermore this articlia discusses what the men in this program said about their "violent" experiences and what the nurse inferred as themes and identi fied as the men's needs and strategies for change throughout phases of the group process. (J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc [1998]. 4, 41-47)

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Vol. 4, No. 2, 41-47 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/107839039800400205


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