Attitudinal Change in Participants of Partner Assault Response (PAR) Programs: A Pilot Project

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• FORWARD
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• HIGHLIGHTS
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 1. BACKGROUND
  • 1.1 Attitudes as a mechanism of change
  • 1.2 Change in attitude towards abuse
  • 1.3 Change in attitude towards women
  • 1.4 Change in attitudes towards treatment
  • 1.5 Current study
• 2. METHODOLOGY
  • 2.1 Participants
    • 2.1.1 Demographic characteristics: age, ethnicity, income, employment and relationship status
    • 2.1.2 Referral information
    • 2.1.3 Past assaults and alcohol use
    • 2.1.4 Post-Assessment Participants
  • 2.2 Measures
    • 2.2.1 Information form
    • 2.2.2 Attitudes
    • 2.2.3 Attitudes towards referral incident
    • 2.2.4 Knowledge of abusive behaviour
    • 2.2.5 Knowledge of abuse-supporting self-talk
  • 2.3 Limitations
• 3. RESULTS
  • 3.1 Factor analysis of men's attitudes
    • 3.1.1 Reliability of attitude domains
    • 3.1.2 Correlations of attitude domains
  • 3.2 Pre-treatment attitude differences
  • 3.3 Attitude toward referral incident
  • 3.4 Knowledge of abuse and abuse-supporting attributions
  • 3.5 Change in attitudes over time
  • 3.6 Sensitivity of attitude measures to change over intervention
  • 3.7 Change among men according to referral source
  • 3.8 Change among men who seemed successful and unsuccessful in intervention
• 4. DISCUSSION
  • 4.1 Personal responsibility for abuse and its effects
  • 4.2 Denial of expected relationship difficulties
  • 4.3 Partner blaming
  • 4.4 Sexist attitudes towards women
  • 4.5 Lack of readiness for intervention
  • 4.6 Attitudes towards referral incident
  • 4.7 Knowledge of abusive behaviours
  • 4.8 Knowledge of abuse-supporting cognitions
  • 4.9 Summary
• 5. IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• APPENDIX A: Letter of Consent
• APPENDIX B: Research Information Form
• APPENDIX C: Final Version of the Abuse-Related Attitudes Assessment (ARAA)
• APPENDIX D: Final Version of the Attitudes Towards Referral Incident Measure
• APPENDIX E: Final Version of the Knowledge of Abusive Behaviour Measure
• APPENDIX F: Final Version of the Knowledge of Abuse-Supporting Self-Talk Measure

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