Article archive / June 1, 2014
Originally published: . Volume 5, No. 10. Source pages: 5.
House Bill 421 amends the definition of a "treatment program" as used in the Post-Separation Violence Relief Act to include a treatment program comprised of a minimum of 26 in-person sessions that follows a model designed specifically for perpetrators of domestic abuse. The law passed and has been sent to the Governor.
New additions to existing law require the mental health professionals providing therapy to have certain experience and training. Specifically, the provider of the program is to have experience in working directly with the perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse, experience in facilitating batterer intervention groups, and training in the causes and dynamics of domestic violence, characteristics of batterers, victim safety, and sensitivity of victims.
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