Court-mandated group counseling in community is one of the most important ways to prevent fromrecidivism of intimate partner violence (IPV). The effectiveness related to this kind of counseling is still debatable generally. Moreover, the related issues are seldom explored in Taiwan train institute and research field. To construct related knowledge, this author reviewed the critical and improved ways for the current court-mandated group counseling. Then, a court-mandated, open-ended, semi-structural group counseling program including 12 sessions within community based on gender equality, cognitive-behavior therapy, and group counseling was designed and conducted by this author. The participants included 22 perpetrators and their victims. The study adopted a mixed method design which collected data from both perpetrators and their victims. Due to whether lived together or not would influence the probability of recidivism of IPV, the data were divided into
cohabitating team and separated team, and then analyzed through dyadic analysis approach. The descriptive statistics showed that all the scores of IPV diminished in addition to psychological violence from the victims’ perspective. Further analysis indicated that not only perpetrator’s couple communication improved but also physical assault decreased significantly after attending
court-mandated group counseling in the cohabitating team. On the other hand, the physical, psychological, sexual violence, and injury have decreased significantly, accompanying communicational frequency decreased, in the separated team. The effectiveness of IPV decreasing among participants in this study could partially attribute to attending group counseling in this
study, although part of effectiveness should attribute to the inhibiting function of protection order and the result of separating.
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The Effectiveness of Court-Mandated Group Counseling in Community for Preventing from the Recidivism of Intimate Partner Violence
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