I think that when we frame it as "counseling" then we have to consider what the words mean -- is this a psychological, diagnosable condition; does it imply medical disease model and therefore discount the whole area of changing masculinity and male privilege/violence, etc.
Is the question really does counseling work, or is it does some intervention that goes beyond (not in place of) the criminal justice response? Which is a different question than does mental health counseling work. And of course, we have to also ask work to do what? Make a single man feel and act better or change the social conditions, beliefs, attitudes and institutions that promote, encourage, allow, ignore male violence? I haven't had a chance to check my email here for over a week -- is this the group that provided the link to the VAWNET document on batterers intervention programs? It reviews several US studies regarding BIP's and can be found at: http://www.vawnet.org/VNL/library/general/AR_bip.html. Sorry if this is redundant, but it has some good information regarding how to think about what it means to "work." My thoughts. Chiquita Rollins Portland Oregon, US At 06:59 AM 01/08/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Maybe counselling is not the right thing to do, but I still think that we >need some kind of "personal work". Maybe something like "self-help groups" >could be more effective. My name is Ruben Reyes, Im a member of the group >"Men against violence", this is a group that works both as a self-help >group and as an activists' collective against gender-based violence. We >still dont have any experience on cousellinng for men with violent >bahavior, but we're trying to develop a program of this kind. > > ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
