英国缓刑官员协会(National Association of Probation Officers)的1名成员指出,这项研究发现令人担忧,英国政府必须重新检讨现行减少家庭暴力犯罪的计画,并加强对妇女的保护。根据英国内政部的最新统计数据,英国每年约发生83万5000起家庭暴力事件;在英格兰和威尔斯地区,每星期有2名妇女死於前任或现任生活伴侣的手中。
不过英国最大的諮询专业组织「英国諮询委员会」(British Assocaition of Counselling)并不认為心理復建课程对家庭暴力犯无效。这个社团由心理復建专家组成,主席麦戴维特(Craig Mcdevitt)认為,心理諮商课程的效果如何,和研究人员选择测试的諮询种类有关。他认為英国内政部的的研究结果和他在专业领域中获得的证据刚好相反。家庭暴力犯罪者通常也曾是这类暴力行為的受害人,因此心理諮询的第一步工作,就是帮助这些施暴者理解到他们的行為是经由学习而来。
Checklist for Assessing Change in Men Who Abuse Women
By Lundy Bancroft
2007
*Note: This is an outline for an article I have not yet written, but I thought it might be helpful to people already.
Admitting fully to what he has done
Stopping excuses
Stopping all blaming of her
Making amends
Accepting responsibility (recognizing that abuse is a choice)
Identifying patterns of controlling behavior, admitting their wrongness
Identifying the attitudes that drive his abuse
Accepting that overcoming abusiveness will be a decades-long process, not declaring himself cured
Not starting to say, “so now it’s your turn to do your work”, not using change as a bargaining chip
Not demanding credit for improvements he has made
Not treating improvements as chips or vouchers to be spent on occasional acts of abuse (e.g. “I haven’t done anything like this in a long time, so why are you making such a big deal about it?”)
Developing respectful, kind, supportive behaviors
Carrying his weight
Sharing power
Changing how he is in highly heated conflicts
Changing how he responds to his partner’s (or former partner’s) anger and grievances
Changing his parenting
Changing his treatment of her as a parent
Changing his attitudes towards females in general
Accepting the consequences of his actions (including not feeling sorry for himself about those consequences, and not blaming her or the children for them)