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Sausage Making: Implications for Intimate Partner Violence Intervention and Program Development
This presentation will challenge the ideologies that have been the sole basis of “Batterer Intervention Programs” for more than 40 years. It will propose that a new foundation for developing, running programs and creating curriculums is necessary. It starts with “Following the Science” as one of the multi-intersectional factors necessary to understand violent behavior, actually any behavior for that matter. It is important to look outside the “traditional field” of batterer intervention that includes the scientific research around the neural-physuilogical processes that are the basis for all behavior as human beings. This presentation then integrates the factors of trauma experience and its effects on behavior. To not use this information today as the basis for intervening with those who are hurtful towards their intimate partners may be, at best, “science ignorance,” or at worst, “science-denying/refusing.” There will also be suggestions, methods and strategies for integrating this information along with other multi-intersectional factors as a way to work with those who are hurtful toward their intimate partners for understanding how to provide trauma-informed care.
This session was previously recorded at the 29th Annual San Diego IVAT Summit.
Dr. David Mathews, PsyD, LICSW, CEO, One T, LLC
Dr. Dave Mathews has more than 35 years of experience in working with families, adolescents, and children related to issues of trauma, parenting, intimate partner violence, domestic violence, and community violence. He is currently a full-time therapist at People Incorporated, in the Twin Cities, MN. In 2020 Dave co-founded and began to co-host the EPIC Voices & Conversations Podcast. He has been in a part-time private practice as a therapist for 30 years with youth, adults, parents, families, and groups who have experienced trauma or violence in their lives. Dave created the Restorative Parenting Practices Program in 1999 and provides training for the application and development of Restorative Parenting programs. He provides training and consultation nationally and internationally on topics of trauma, parenting, violence and violence prevention, and professional multi-cultural proficiency. Dave has created, developed, authored, and co-authored multiple articles and produced multiple media for training others on the topics and issues mentioned above. He has lead, co-lead, and served on multiple national and local community and collaborative initiatives related to violence prevention and domestic violence. Dave has been a Community Faculty at the Metropolitan State University of Minnesota for more than 13 years and teaches in the Psychology and Human Services Department classes on Adolescent Psychology, Family Violence and Program Development and Community Intervention classes.
