Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Changing Face of Intimate Partner Violence
Treatment
Chapter 2: Assessment for Intimate Partner Violence and Screening
for Inclusion in the Treatment Program
Chapter 3: Domestic Violence–Focused Couples Therapy Within a
Solution-Focused Framework
Chapter 4: Session 1: Honoring the Problem
Chapter 5: Session 2: The Foundation for Domestic Violence–Focused
Couples Therapy — Defining the Miracle
Chapter 6: Session 3: Introduction to Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 7: Session 4: Mindfulness and Safety Planning
Chapter 8: Session 5: Escalation and Negotiated Time-Out
Chapter 9: Session 6: Alcohol and Drug Use
Chapter 10: Sessions 7 Through 18: Phase Two — Conjoint
Treatment
Chapter 11: Constraints, Multicouple Group Adaptations, and
Termination
Chapter 12: Our Clients
Chapter 13: Our Research Findings
Suggested Readings
References
Index
About the Authors
Sandra M. Stith, PhD, LCMFT, is a professor and director of
the marriage and family therapy program at Kansas State University.
Her primary research interest is in understanding and treating
intimate partner violence. She has edited three books on the
subject, including Understanding Partner Violence: Prevalence,
Causes, Consequences and Solutions, coedited with Dr. Murray
Straus, and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence. She publishes
widely in the professional literature and has received funding,
with Drs. McCollum and Rosen, from the National Institutes of
Health to develop and test a couple's treatment program for
intimate partner violence. Dr. Stith has worked with the U.S. Air
Force Family Advocacy Program since 1998, managing and conducting a
variety of family violence–related research projects. In 2004 she
received the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy's
Outstanding Contribution to Marriage and Family Therapy Award, and
in 2007 she received the American Family Therapy Association's
Distinguished Contribution to Family Systems Research Award and
Kansas State University's Distinguished Alumni Award.
Eric E. McCollum, PhD, LCSW, LMFT, is a professor in and
program director of the marriage and family therapy master's
program at Virginia Tech. He had a 15-year clinical career,
including 12 years as a staff member of the Menninger Clinic in
Topeka, Kansas, before beginning his academic career in 1989 as a
faculty member in the marriage and family therapy doctoral program
at Purdue University. His academic interests include the treatment
of intimate partner violence and the use of mindfulness meditation
in treatment and in the training of therapists. In addition to his
many contributions to the professional literature, he has published
two prior books, Family Solutions for Substance Abuse with Terry
Trepper and More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Steve de Shazer, Yvonne Dolan,
Harry Korman, Terry Trepper and Insoo Kim Berg. He is coeditor with
Cynthia Franklin, Terry Trepper, and Wallace Gingerich of the
forthcoming Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: From Practice to
Research-Informed Practice. In 2008, Dr. McCollum received the
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy's Training
Award.
Karen H. Rosen, EdD, was a faculty member at the marriage
and family therapy master's Program at Virginia Tech for more than
15 years. Before that, she was a clinician and supervisor and
directed the training clinic at Virginia Tech. Her academic
interests lay in the area of understanding and treating intimate
partner violence. Primarily a qualitative researcher, she was the
author of many professional papers and one book, Violence Hits
Home: Comprehensive Treatment Approaches to Domestic Violence with
Sandra Stith and Mary Beth Williams. At the time of her death in
2008, Dr. Rosen was professor emeritus at Virginia Tech.
The book is readable, comprehensible, well organized, and so
important for MFTs who are in danger of slipping away from
relational conceptualizing and practice.
*Journal of Marital and Family Therapy*
A clear and comprehensive guide to a systemic model of treatment
for domestic violence that could greatly enhance the training and
practice of any clinician working with couples.
*Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy*
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