Table 1.
Key Term | Description of Concept |
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Program effectiveness | • Definition or measures of effectiveness or program success. |
Family group counseling | • Helping families and/or couples cope with domestic violence, structural inequities, and social injustice related to domestic violence. |
Restorative justice | • Engaging the person(s) causing harm to acknowledge the harm that they have caused, prioritize ending violence, promoting safety and empowerment, and changing social norms. • Prioritizing survivor empowerment, healing, involvement, and perspectives into offender treatment. |
Transformative justice | • Efforts to gain community support to address conditions that create violence and disavow carceral, punitive approaches to transgressive behavior. |
Social justice | • Endeavors to respect the diversity of cultural values and the impact of systemic oppression on interpersonal violence. |
Case management | • Holistic, “wrap-around,” or individualized services provided to an offender that goes beyond the bounds of the program curriculum to address additional needs. This may include referral practices, follow-up, cultural tailoring, etc. |
Program partners | • Collaborations and partnerships with other community-based agencies that are relevant to offender treatment and secondary IPV prevention. |
Economic inequality | • Fees, financial burdens, employment assistance, economic resources, or anything related to DVIP participants’ economic or financial stability. |
Racism | • Discrimination or oppression based on race, ethnicity, immigration status, primary language spoken, or anything related to racial inequality. |
Adverse childhood experiences | • Offenders’ history of childhood trauma, abuse, or neglect. |
Strengths-based parenting | • Promoting positive, strengths-based parenting from the father or abusive partner. |
Note. DVIPs = Domestic Violence Intervention Programs; IPV = intimate partner violence.