Comparing a Fatherhood Focused Individual Intervention to Batterer Intervention to Reduce IPV and Child Maltreatment

NCT04165291 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

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Summary

This randomized trial will test a newly developed intervention aimed at fathers who have a history of family violence compared to a standard batterer intervention program.

Conditions

  • Intimate Partner Violence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

F4C

Fathers for Change (F4C) focuses on: 1) the fathering role to facilitate engagement, 2) RF to understand self, partner and children and emotion regulation skills to reduce IPV and child maltreatment. F4C focuses on understanding of emotional experiences, how they impact thinking and behaviors related to partners, co-parents and children. F4C clients will meet individually with their F4C therapist for 50 minutes per week over 16 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

BIP

The Batterer Intervention Program (BIP) is a psychoeducational intervention that will be delivered in 50- minute individual weekly sessions over 16 weeks. The intervention focuses on the impact of violence on victims, power and control tactics, and societal influences supporting men's violence toward women. The intervention includes didactics and experiential exercises including role plays to teach anger management skills.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yale University

    lead OTHER
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Carla Stover, PhD · Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine Child Study Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-09-01
Primary Completion
2023-07-30
Completion
2023-08-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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