Improving empathy with motivational strategies in batterer intervention programmes: Results of a randomized controlled trial.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study reinforces the view that different modalities of IPV intervention might lead to different cognitive outcomes after the intervention. Thus, these results may help professionals to develop specific intervention programmes focused on improving cognitive abilities in order to reduce IPV recidivism.
PRACTITIONER POINTS: Interventions for batterers' neglected empathic changes after these programmes. Not enough randomized controlled trials for these kinds of interventions. An improvement in the ability to decode emotions after the intervention programme. An improvement in cognitive empathy (perspective taking) after the intervention programme. Different modalities of IPV intervention might lead to different cognitive outcomes after the intervention.
PMID: 30345574 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - October 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Romero-Martínez Á, Lila M, Gracia E, Moya-Albiol L Tags: Br J Clin Psychol Source Type: research