NCT00847548

Treatment of Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Abuse in a Forensic Setting

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: VU University of Amsterdam · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Intimate partner violence is a significant societal problem. However, treatment of IPV perpetrators is far from effective, which may be partly due to the fact that the role of substance abuse is not taken into account. There is considerable evidence that a strong relationship between the use of alcohol and other drugs and intimate partner violence exists. Besides, a few studies indicate that reducing substance use may have a positive impact on IPV. Therefore, in this study, perpetrators of intimate partner violence with substance use disorders enrolled in domestic violence treatment will be randomly assigned to either standard treatment for offenders of domestic violence or a combination of the latter treatment with cognitive-behavioral therapy addressing substance abuse (combined treatment).

Conditions

• Domestic Violence
• Substance Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	substance abuse/domestic violence treatment	This intervention is comprised of 16 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy. 8 sessions are addressing partner violence and 8 sessions are addressing substance abuse.
BEHAVIORAL	CBT addressing partner violence	This treatment is comprised of 16 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy addressing partner violence.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-04-01
• First posted: 2009-02-19
• Last updated: 2013-09-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands