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MB - Intervention with Male Batterers Post Test

Psychologist, Ohio MFT and Counselor Post Test:
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Questions:

1.1 What characteristics might men look for in male role models?
3.1 What may be four causes of the ‘Something Snaps’ stage?
4.1 What three types of cues or indications that violence may occur for clients?
4.2 What are three situations of ‘situational cue’?
4.3 What may be a good technique to increase batterers' awareness of situational, emotional, and cognitive red flags?
5.1 What are three Rules of Engagement a client might benefit from?
6.1 How do over-controller clients differ from under-controller client?
7.1 What is the purpose of a man to maintain his status quo?
8.1 What three categories may the three step method help a client break his shame-based actions into?
8.2 What technique can a client use to deal with the issue of control?
9.1 What two categories might a plan of exactly what to change be divided into?
9.2 What may be a useful technique to help a client discover how he coped with his violence?
10.1 How can goal setting help clients with violence?
11.1 Why might clients have undefined goals?
12.1 What may be five benefits of restating responses?

Answers:

A. Behavioral deficits, depression, hostility, and psychopathology
B. Strong-they know what they want, and they know how to get it. They are real men who don't take any crap from anybody, especially their women
C. A particular topic of conversation, the time of day during which an argument occurs, stopping off at a bar before returning home
D. Situational cues, emotional cues, cognitive cues
E. Setting time limits on arguments, decreasing yelling, discussing issues across a table rather than face to face
F. Weekly log
G. To minimize the seriousness of their actions, to deny their actions completely
H. Undercontrollers do not deny their rage and act out frequently. Overcontrollers usually act out infrequently and deny their rage. They experience long-term, chronic frustration and resentment.
I. Recycling or Rethinking Method
J. The meaning Claire's actions held for him, creating empathy for Claire's feelings, understanding the context of the situation
K. Coping with Coping Four-Column Technique
L. Internal cognitive process, external behavior
M. Some clients in denial feel that life is going so well for them that there is nothing they can think to change or work on
N. Helps your client to feel understood, provides feedback as you understand it, acts as a mirror, acts as a sounding board, clarifies behavior, meaning, or feeling
O. To begin exploring possible solutions safely while allowing the battered to hold him accountable for doing something different in his life

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Questions:

13.1 As a result of family violence, what may children become?
13.2 What may be four reactions of children to family violence?
14.1 What are nine harmful behaviors that may be occurring in a relationship?
15.1 What might be examples of defense mechanisms in male batterers?
17.1 What may be the purpose of reading the rules out loud a first group meeting?
17.2 What are the 8 group rules?
18.1 What are the roles and hierarchies in the Chinese culture?
19.1 How might the victim of battering feel because of the effects of trauma?
20.1 What are examples of physical abuse?
20.2 What is economic abuse?

Answers:

A. Distress, withdrawal, anger, affectionate/prosocial behavior
B. The child behaving as a victimizer of others, a victim, resiliency
C. Minimizes his violence by labeling a fight with his wife a ‘slight’ or ‘a little disagreement’, considers his behavior to be under the control of his partner's actions, verbal-cognitive constructions, mislabels reality by such defensive statements
D. Emotionally, psychologically, verbally, socially, financially, ritually, physically, sexually, religiously abused
E. Attendance, violence, confidentiality, alcohol and drugs, assignments, group discussions, no blaming, goals
F. It offers an opportunity for participants to express disagreements or differences of opinion, it communicates that the group process will involve participation and effort, it confirms that each participant has had the opportunity to learn, understand, and if necessary challenge the ‘rules of game’, it helps us determine if anyone is illiterate
G. Hostile, disjointed, agitated
H. Members of the family are expected to adhere to their specified role in order to maintain family harmony, a man may feel obligated to be in control of the family; for the harmony of his family not only reflects who he is as a person, but also the quality of his manhood, family matters and marital conflicts are often concealed for
I. Trying to keep her from getting or keeping a job, making her ask you for money, giving her an allowance, taking money from her
J. Twisting arms, tripping, biting, pushing, shoving, hitting, slapping, choking, pulling hair, punching, kicking grabbing, using a weapon against her, beating her, throwing her down

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