ABSTRACT
Reviews of treatment services for men who abuse their wives or cohabitant partners reveal that the majority of group interventions for men who batter have been based on a cognitive-behavioral model
5 (Eisikovits & Edleson, 1989; Hamberger & Hastings, 1993; Rosenfeld, 1992; Tolman & Bennett, 1990), that evaluations have routinely failed to use rigorous experimental designs (Chalk & King, 1998; Fagan, 1996), and that little evidence exists that the prevailing
10 interventions for men who batter are efficacious (Crowell & Burgess, 1996; Healey, Smith, & O'Sullivan, 1998). The ability to rule out alternative explanations for what appear to be positive findings regarding the cessation of spouse or partner abuse has been notably
15 absent in almost all evaluations of domestic violence programs. The net effect is a lack of reliable information about how to best treat men who abuse their wives or cohabitant partners (Boruch, 1994; Fagan, 1996).
