Risk Factors for DV Re-Offense or DV Recidivism

 Everyone who is participating in this Domestic Violence Offender Treatment has had at least one DV-Related Offense.  Unfortunately, the fact from the Research is that once a person has one DV-Related Offense; they are quite possibly at a higher Risk of Re-Offending than a person who has never had a DV-Related Offense.
 So, What's worse than one DV Offense?  

 Another DV Offense.  This is not a joke!  Right?

  It is the mission of your DV Offender Treatment Provider to try and help make sure that you never Re-Offend.

  We take this mission very seriously. 

  One way to avoid a problem is to fully understand the problem.  Therefore, we are going to talk about some of the problems that the Research indicates are often present when a person with a prior DV Offense, ends up catching another DV Offense.  These are called, "Risk Factors".

  Below are Some possible Risk Factors that are specifically indicated as potentially putting a person who already has a DV Offense at risk of a DV Re-Offense or Recidivism.  If I were you, I would take a long, serious and sincere look at this list and think critically -- "Does this potential Risk Factor relate to me, to my life, to my relationships?"  
  And then I would start thinking about good ways that I can make sure that this Risk Factor can no longer put me at a Higher Risk of having any Domestic Violence -Type Thinking, DV-Type Behaviors, or Re-Offenses.

  These Potential Risk Factors for Re-Offense Include the following: 

•       Dropping out of treatment before treatment is completed,
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•       Fewer sessions completed,
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•       Younger in age,
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•       Unemployed,
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•       Less education,
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•       History of More psychological Abuse,
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•       History of More anger,
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•       History of More depression,
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•       Unchanged attitudes about women,
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•       Lower sense of respect,
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•       History of Using more discussion (Unable or Unwilling to Take Time Outs or to use Stop, Breathe, and Focus when a conversation is becoming Disrespectful),
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•       Failure to complete treatment,
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•       Lower social support (Not enough Emotional, Tangible or Instrumental Social Supports in one's life),
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•       Lower internal locus of control (Less ability to own my own thoughts and/or actions)
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•       Higher perceived stress,
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•       Poor problem solving skills,
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•       Poor communication skills (Difficulty Communicating Respectfully when Angry, Upset, Insecure or Unhappy),
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•       Lower feminist awareness (Lower Awareness about Sexism or the Impact of Oppression on Victims),
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•       Lower awareness of ones psycho-dynamics (Ego, Id, Super-Ego + Social),
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•       Poor alliance with therapist, (Unable or Unwilling to Trust or Be Genuine with the Therapist)
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•       Personality disorders including: Borderline, Avoidant, Antisocial, Self-Defeating, Schizoid, Aggressive/Sadistic, and Passive-Aggressive; Increased psychopathic traits or tendencies, or Narcissistic.
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•       Substance Abuse difficulties,
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•       Poor family relations,
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•       Child behavior problems (Having a Child with serious problems; and/or having a History of serious behavior problems as a child),
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•       Having a child with the victim,
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•       Lower Social Economic Status in Community,
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•       Lower Socio-Economic Status,
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•       Having been abused as a child, and
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•       History of Trauma.
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  For each of the Risk Factors Above, one should be able to make a suggestion as to what a person could or should do to help make sure that this Risk Factor will not contribute to them having any more Domestic Violent-type Thinking or Behaviors as well as Re-offending.

  *** Please CLICK HERE to Complete your 

Risk Factors for DV Re-Offense Worksheet ***

  Also!  Be sure to complete your Session Feedback Form (below), as well as an Absence Attestation Form for each one of your Absences.

PLEASE CLICK HERE to Complete

your Session Feedback Form!!!

Sources: 

(Retrieved 1/6/2020 from: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=psychfacpub

Domestic violence treatment response and recidivism: A review and implications for the study of family violence

Robert M. Sartin; University of Nebraska–Lincoln, rmsartin@syr.edu

David J. Hansen; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, dhansen1@unl.edu

Matthew T. Huss; Creighton University, mhuss@creighton.edu

University of Nebraska – Lincoln; DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology).

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