Interview Worksheet

This interview worksheet is designed to help guide an initial intake interview with a batterer.

Children's Exposure to Violence and Abuse

This handout is designed to get clients to think about how their violence to their partner may be harming their children. It is also used to help professionals, particularly child protection workers, think about specific ways to engage batterers about the effect their violence is having on their children.

What Can Your Children Say...

This handout is designed to help clients think about themselves and their relationship with other family members from the perspective of their children. Our clients respond to the handout in a self-evaluative manner with very little direction from our staff. Simultaneously, it offers clients a sense of some positive norms for family interaction.

Violence, Abuse, and Control Checklist

This checklist is used in several different formats. We often use it with new clients as part of their assessment. At this point, it serves two purposes. It is a fast way for the clinician to gather broad information about the client's perception of his pattern of abuse beyond the referring incident. It also introduces the idea that more than physical violence will be addressed in the program. In group, clients fill it out to assess the progress they have made since they began the program.

Violence, Abuse, and Control Checklist -Turkish

This is a Turkish version of our checklist translated courtesy of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families.