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Abuse Counseling and Treatment
Counseling, support groups and programs assisting the whole family to eliminate abuse.

EMERGE: Counseling and Education to Stop Domestic Violence
First counseling program in the nation for men who batter. Offers batterer counseling, support referrals for families, training courses and materials for counselors and educators.

Family Violence Project
The Family Violence Project provides group counselling to men who are abusive in their intimate relationships, and group support to their women partners. Located in Victoria, BC.

Counselling Violent Men: Fraudulent Virility and Coercive Power Among Men
Article by Rod Patterson in Issues Facing Australian Families: Human Services Respond.

No To Violence Male Family Violence Prevention Association
No To Violence (NTV), the Male Family Violence Prevention Association Inc., is a peak organisation of individuals and agencies working for the prevention of male family violence. The specific focus is work with men to assist them to change and end their violent behaviour.

Limits and risks of programs for wife batterers
Critique of batterer treatment programs.

Certification Procedures and Minimum Standards for Assessors and Batterers' Intervention Programs
This publication from the Florida Department of Corrections contains certification procedures and state minimum standards for batterers' intervention programs and assessors in Florida. Also included are monitoring procedures and all forms for the program.

Controversies and Recent Studies of Batterer Intervention Program Effectiveness
Violence Against Women Online Resources - University of Minnesota.

Results of a Multi-Site Evaluation of Batterer Intervention Systems
by Edward Gondolf, Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

Masculinities and violence in the Dominican Republic - José Tavarez 1 2 2002
A summary of a talk given by José Tavarez at the conference Men Aren't From Mars: Masculinities and Non-Violence in Latin American and the Caribbean, held in London in October 2001.