2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/17/2019 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | A Mind-Body Approach to Domestic Violence Offender Treatment | Cascade 1&2
A Mind-Body Approach to Domestic Violence Offender Treatment
This presentation describes an alternative approach to the treatment of perpetrators of domestic violence offenders that is based on the Mind-Body therapeutic tradition. According to recent meta-analyses, conventional interventions with this population are marginally effective. Given these results, researchers and practitioners are beginning to focus on identifying ways to improve domestic violence treatment outcomes. This presentation describes how a domestic violence offender program utilized a treatment approach, known as Mind-Body Bridging, to help its clients overcome their abusive behaviors. Findings from a randomized clinical trial comparing the MBB program with a traditional cognitive-behavioral-psychoeducational approach are reported.
- Participants will become familiar with a mind-body approach to domestic violence offender treatment.
- Participants will identify how outcomes associated with the MBB treatment approach compare with those associated with a more traditional models.
- Participants will explore the MBB model in the context of group and individual treatment.
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Derrik Tollefson
(), Utah State University, derrik.tollefson@usu.edu;
Derrik Tollefson is Professor of Social Work and head of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at Utah State University. He also is Director of the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies at USU. He previously was the founding coordinator of the Master of Social Work program at USU and served as interim dean and associate dean of the USU-Uintah Basin campus. He has conducted a number of evaluations of human services programs including those providing MBB, domestic violence, child welfare, and mental health interventions. He has served as PI on a number of state and federal-funded grants and contracts, is the author of a number of journal articles and book chapters and has presented at numerous national and international conferences on his research and pedagogy. He serves as past president of the Utah Association for Domestic Violence Treatment, an organization which he co-founded, and co-chair of the Utah Domestic Violence Offender Management Task Force’s Treatment Standards Committee. He’s also served on a number of other human services organization governing and advisory boards. He teaches graduate and undergraduate social work courses. He holds a clinical social work license from the State of Utah and maintains a part-time private counseling practice specializing in family violence. He received a bachelor’s degree in social work and sociology from Utah State University, a master’s degree in social work from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Utah. He has previously held academic appointments at Brigham Young University-Hawaii and the University of Utah.
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