Evaluating Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Use in Washington State

SAH is a group intervention that incorporates elements from interventions for violence and trauma. It is administered during 12 two-hour weekly sessions. The program uses a social information processing model based on the premise that trauma negatively impacts one's ability to interpret and respond to social situations effectively. It underscores the importance of cognitive behavioral strategies to monitor one's thoughts and responses to interpersonal situations.

Treatment as usual for IPV includes court-mandated interventions delivered over the 26 two-hour weekly sessions in Washington state.