Or. Admin. Code § 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.

Notes

Or. Admin. Code § 137-087-0045

DOJ 16-2005, f. 11-23-05, cert. ef. 1-1-06

Stat. Auth.: ORS 180.070 - 180.710

Stats. Implemented: ORS 180.070 - 180.710