Three Important Facts About Domestic Violence

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'First, IPV occurs across all age groups and ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. Secondly, men and women show near-equal rates of IPV perpetration with women perpetrating at slightly higher rates.

It is important to note that counseling for IPV perpetrators is widely available, with well over 1000 programs in the US. Most of these programs, however, predominantly serve court-mandated populations and are focused on men who have assaulted women. While men cause the bulk of physical injury, many men are unwilling to come forward for fear of stigma.

Although clinical approaches based on long-standing models of IPV intervention have modest efficacy, there is a solid conceptual rationale for several alternative strategies for IPV perpetrators.'