Hi. The answer will vary depending on your objective. is your theoretical approach that women need to leave the relationship, hence your activities are focused in this area? Or are you interested in helping women who want to remain in their relationship but decrease their exposure? Also, are you working with shelter victims, who generally experience severe physical IPV, an average of 65 incidents of iPV annually and 80% are unemployed or community and police response victims as 70% of them experience mild-moderate IPV which has different symptomology? traditional IPV advocates believe it is not possible to assist a women in taking steps to reduce her exposure, however current research says that it is. My sense is that becuase traditional IPV advocates have dismissed this approach they have not develop the skillset to do so without saying the victim is responsible for their partner's usage of IPV. Perhaps more importantly, many women's process of leaving is by taking small steps at developing self-efficacy, and what could be more impactful than to shift her emphasis on trying to get her partner to change his behavior and focus on what she can change -- herself? I would propose that this also allows her to fully accept that her partner could change and has the potential to shorten the timeline to leaving the relationship for women who make that choice.

I can cite research to assist you regardless of your approach. Also, you might want to search for latino, latina, hispanic women, as they are minorities in the US and there is quite a bit of research on this population. With immigrants, friends providing clinical services in Miami, FL have told me that fear of deportation is a common barrier to service utilization (both treatment and police support), this might be a good keyword to search in both title, abstract, and keyword PsycInfo (or google scholar) search.

A couple of articles to consider and once you clarify what you are looking for I can provide more:

Iverson, K. M., Gradus, J. L., Resick, P. A., Suvak, M. K., Smith, K. F., & Monson, C. M. (2011). Cognitive–behavioral therapy for PTSD and depression symptoms reduces risk for future intimate partner violence among interpersonal trauma survivors. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(2), 193-202. 10.1037/a0022512

Straus, M. A. (1980). Victims and aggressors in marital violence. American Behavioral Scientist, 23(5), 681-704.

Hi.  I didn't forget about this.  I found a treatment that I am excited about that might help you.  It is currently being used with substance abuse families, however there is a researcher currently testing it with IPV and I think the premise holds true for IPV as well.  I would also incorporate Trauma Incident Reduction treatment into the program (see http://www.tir.org/about-tir.html  -- if you follow Carl Rogers approach of empathic listening you can follow the guidelines in a book to do this treatment, sometimes EMDR is useful (I'm told, I only use TIR))

1. "Get your loved one sober: Alternatives to nagging, pleading, and threatening" by Robert J. Meyers (I believe he's coined as the founder of the approach) & Brenda L. Wolfe

2. "Beyond Addiction: How science and kindness help people change" by Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, & Nicole Kosanke (I know Nicole and had her come in and guest lecture my students in the spring)

Here is a radio interview that Nicole did with Kenneth Anderson about the book and CRAFT, which may be of interest to you: http://motivationandchange.com/dr-nicole-kosanke-on-addiction-treatments-that-work/

Article re: CRAFT and IPV:  Roozen, H. G., Blaauw, E., & Meyers, R. J. (2009). Advances in Management of Alcohol Use Disorders and Intimate Partner Violence: Community Reinforcement and Family Training. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 16(S1), S74-S80.

I wrote to Dr. Roozen and he graciously forwarded the article: [email protected]