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Evaluating Perspectives of Stepwise Relationships - Assessment of an Intervention for Low-Risk Service Users of Intimate Partner Violence in Probation Service
Drechsler, Anna-Lena (2023) Evaluating Perspectives of Stepwise Relationships - Assessment of an Intervention for Low-Risk Service Users of Intimate Partner Violence in Probation Service.
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Abstract: | This research aims to analyse the perceptions of facilitators, service users and domestic abuse safety officers (DASO) of “Stepwise Relationships”, a structured intervention for women and men with prior convictions of intimate partner violence in opposite- or same-sex relationships. Semi-structured interviews with n = 7 service users, n = 5 facilitators, and n = 5 DASOs were used to conduct a thematic analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses of the Stepwise Relationships programme and ensure that the programme could be more closely tailored to the probation service and further testing. Service users reported an improvement in their social and communication skills through in-person group delivery. Facilitators reported that the Stepwise Relationships intervention allows them to deliver complex, relationship-related topics in a short period of time, but could not respond flexibly to specific issues that service users experience due to the structure of the sessions. For the corresponding victims’ service, DASOs questioned whether the length of the programme matched the needs of the service users’ current or former partner. Overall, however, service users, facilitators and DASOS found the Stepwise Relationships intervention to be a useful addition to other accredited programmes in the probation service. |
Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
Subject: | 77 psychology |
Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/94615 |
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