Violence Prevention and Intervention Program

This program is a 26–52-week commitment designed to provide psycho-educational counseling and rehabilitative psychotherapy. The goal of the program is to provide participants with information, insights, and skills in an effort to assist them in gaining better self-control as well as changing attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that cause and/or lead to domestic violence, battering, domestic gender-based violence and child abuse. After intake, clients will participate in evaluative counseling and services will be individualized to address impulsive, abusive, and violent behaviors. This program provides services to individuals who need help with violence, domestic violence, child abuse, stalking and other impulsive behaviors; and/or have problems with violence or intimidating outbursts of aggressive and impulsive behavior.

Domestic violence/gender based violence is partner abuse, spouse abuse, or battering. It occurs when one person uses force to inflict injury, either emotional or physical, upon another person they have, or had, a relationship with. It occurs between spouses and partners, parents and children, children and grandparents, and brothers and sisters. Victims can be any age, race or gender.

Domestic violence is also an escalating pattern of violence or intimidation by an intimate partner, which is used to gain power and control. The categories of domestic violence have been identified as:

Domestic violence cuts across lines of race, nationality, language, culture, economics, sexual orientation, physical ability, and religion to affect people from all walks of life. Domestic violence is serious wherever and whenever it happens. Racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression can impact how people experience violence in their lives, and how they are able to get help. Substance abuse problems or mental illnesses, while not responsible for domestic violence, can change someone’s perspective of violence and the kind of treatment that is needed. Applied Behavioral Sciences has developed specific resources for individuals and families in accessing help and support they need to end domestic violence and gender-based violence in their lives.

Child abuse is a form of domestic and family violence. Child abuse and neglect affect children of all ages, races, and incomes. There were hundreds of thousands of child abuse and neglect reports filed last year, and most incidents often go unreported. Applied Behavioral Sciences Violence Prevention and Intervention Program has developed specific resources to individuals and families in accessing help and support they need to end domestic violence, family violence, and abusive behaviors from their lives.

Stalking is harassing or threatening behavior that happens repeatedly. Stalking and harassing are quickly growing problems in America and worldwide. Due to increased utilization of internet and electronic communication devices, this issue has reached catastrophic pandemic levels. Currently, it is believed that tens of millions of victims are stalked daily. The pattern of controlling behaviors in stalking is very similar to domestic violence. Stalking behaviors include following the victim, threatening, repeated phones calls, emails, text messages, coming to the victim’s place of employment, leaving written messages or objects, and vandalizing the victim’s property. Applied Behavioral Sciences Violence Prevention and Intervention Program has developed specific programming for its clients to address stalking, harassing and angry aggravated harassments behaviors. This develops a self-awareness of stalking, deranged, obsessive, compulsive, and other harassing or threatening behaviors.