OAR 137-087-0045
Intervention Strategies

(1)

Appropriate Intervention Strategies. A BIP’s intervention strategies shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(a)

Using a culturally specific curriculum whenever possible;

(b)

Increasing the participant’s understanding of the causes, types and effects of his battering behavior;

(c)

Identifying beliefs that support battering;

(d)

Using respectful confrontation that encourages participants to challenge and change their beliefs and behaviors;

(e)

Addressing tactics used to justify battering such as denial, victim blaming, and minimizing; increasing participant recognition of the criminal aspect of his thoughts and behavior; and reinforcing participant identification and acceptance of personal responsibility and accountability for such tactics;

(f)

Reinforcing appropriate respectful beliefs and behavioral alternatives;

(g)

Promoting participant recognition of and accountability for patterns of controlling and abusive behaviors and their impacts, and participant responsibility for becoming non-controlling and non-abusive; and

(h)

Ensuring that the impact of battering on victims, partners and children, including their safety and their right to be treated respectfully as individuals, remains in the forefront of intervention work.

(2)

Inappropriate Intervention Strategies. The following intervention strategies are inappropriate and inconsistent with these standards because each compromises victim safety:

(a)

Blaming the participant’s decision to batter on the victim’s qualities or behaviors;

(b)

Coercing, mandating, requiring or encouraging victim or partner disclosure of information or participation in the intervention with the participant;

(c)

Offering, supporting, recommending or using couples, marriage or family counseling or mediation as appropriate intervention for battering;

(d)

Identifying any of the following as a primary cause of battering or a basis for batterer intervention: poor impulse control, anger, past experience, unconscious motivations, substance use or abuse, low self-esteem, or mental health problems of either participant or victim;

(e)

Using ventilation techniques such as punching pillows or encouraging the expression of rage;

(f)

Viewing battering as a bi-directional process with responsibility shared by the victim;

(g)

Viewing battering as an addiction and the victim as enabling or co-dependent in the battering; or

(h)

Using actions or attitudes of moral superiority, or controlling or abusive behaviors toward participants.

Source: Rule 137-087-0045 — Intervention Strategies, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=137-087-0045.

137‑087‑0000
Purpose and Implementation 137‑087‑0005
Definitions 137‑087‑0010
Integration With Total Community Response to Domestic Violence 137‑087‑0015
Interface Standards — Victims and Current Partners 137‑087‑0020
Confidentiality of Victim and Partner Information 137‑087‑0025
Interface Standards — Victim Advocacy Programs 137‑087‑0030
Interface Standards — Criminal Justice System 137‑087‑0035
Interface Standards — Other BIPs 137‑087‑0040
Interface Standards — Social Service Interfaces 137‑087‑0045
Intervention Strategies 137‑087‑0050
Intervention Curriculum 137‑087‑0055
Culturally Informed Interventions 137‑087‑0060
Admission Policies and Procedures 137‑087‑0065
BIP Program Format 137‑087‑0070
Policies and Procedures as to Termination or Release 137‑087‑0075
Post-Release Services 137‑087‑0080
Personnel Standards 137‑087‑0085
Research Programs 137‑087‑0090
Demonstration Projects (see definition in Section 1) 137‑087‑0095
Program Review 137‑087‑0100
BIP Advisory Committee

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OAR 137-087-0045 Intervention Strategies

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OAR 137-087-0045
Intervention Strategies