Will Couples Counseling Help With Domestic Violence? Get more actionable tips and tactics here bit.ly/AngelasMHBlog
First, let’s break down what domestic violence really is. It’s physical or psychological behaviors that are meant to scare and control your partner. The key dynamic is one person exerting power over the other using anything from sexual, emotional, physical, or even spiritual abuse to threaten, manipulate, isolate and control the victim.
I consulted with Psychologist Bart Fowler, the founder of Charis Counseling www.chariscounseling.com when conducting my research for this video. He shared that domestic violence and abuse is one of the most painful and destructive experiences in marriage and family relationships. Couples therapy is not recommended if violence or abuse is present in the marriage and there are couple of main reasons why:
1. It is rarely, if ever, helpful and often is harmful.
Dr. Fowler states that the “essential ingredients for a change are not present-that’s a recognition that I’m messing up.”
2. The problem is the abuser not the marriage.
Dr. Fowler says that “Not until the abuser is demonstrating behavioral change can their spouse reasonably consider taking a risk to be vulnerable.”
Resources:
Abuse Recovery Ministries
armsonline.org/
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