Interventions into the problem of wife assault: Therapeutic, policy and research implications.

Abstract
Psychological contributions to the social problem of wife assult are reviewed in the following areas: assessing police response to family crisis calls, training police for family crisis intervention, evaluation of training and policy change, treatment of wife assaulters, research on the causes of wife assault and its effects on the victim. This research constitutes a "problem-focused" approach that incorporates the study of basic processes such as the cognitive interpretation of affective states, applied issues such as treatment strategies for assaultive males and policy issues such as the ideal model for delivery of services to diminish wife assault. Each of the 3 areas apparently stimulates new insights in the other 2.

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