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Abstract

Research on intimate partner violence has repeatedly highlighted its adverse effects on the health and overall well-being of victims (women and children). While myriad programmatic interventions have been developed to remedy the situation, restore victims' psychosocial functioning, and rehabilitate and re-integrate perpetrators into mainstream society, debates about the effectiveness of these interventions to meaningfully change perpetrators' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours, ensure sustained harmonious relationships, and promote the safety and wellbeing of their victims continue. Based on the critical appraisal of five leading articles on domestic violence perpetrators' programmes’ evaluations in the UK, this study contributes to this debate by examining how various stakeholders; male perpetrators, survivors/victims (women), and practitioners, including programme staff, conceive the success of perpetrators’ programmes.
The findings indicate that, although, DVPPs are not a cure for domestic violence and abuse, they have achieved a level of success by assisting most perpetrators who attend the programmes in developing a sense of self-awareness and that of others, and have resulted in a change in the perpetrators' behaviour, thereby contributing to the safety and freedom of women and children.
This dissertation ends with a practice recommendation based on the research studies' key findings and influenced by social work theories.

Course: Social Work - MSc - C2081F

Date Deposited: 2022-11-14

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