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Direct linkO'Farrell, Timothy J.; Murphy, Christopher M.; Stephan, Sharon H.; Fals-Stewart, William; Murphy, Marie – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
This study examined partner violence before and after behavioral couples therapy (BCT) for 303 married or cohabiting male alcoholic patients and used a demographically matched nonalcoholic comparison sample. In the year before BCT, 60% of alcoholic patients had been violent toward their female partner, 5 times the comparison sample rate of 12%. In…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Males, Family Violence, Family Counseling
