DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RECOVERY
Instructors
Elaine Stipetich, M.S.S.W.
Elaine has been a facilitator of Domestic Violence groups since 1987. She is on the Justice Committee for the Governor's Council for Domestic Violence and has trained Judges as well as other Criminal Justice Personnel. She has made regular presentations at the University of Wisconsin Law School since 1994. In addition to holding a Master's degree, she has received training at the Family Institute in Chicago and the Menninger Foundation in the area of Family therapy. Ms. Stipetich is regarded as a lay expert witness in Domestic Violence cases. She has facilitated as well as trained facilitators to present the Cognitive Intervention Program.
Bill Hollingsworth, M.S., C.I.C.S.W., C.A.D.C. III
Bill holds four Wisconsin state licenses. He is a Certified Marriage and Family Counselor, a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, a Certified Professional Counselor and a Certified Independent Clinical Social Worker. He has had special training in the Cognitive Intervention Program and Domestic Violence groups. He has been married for thirty-two years and has raised five children. As an ordained minister, Bill initiated the Chaplaincy Program with the City of Janesville Police Department and has worked with the YWCA program for domestic violence. He currently facilitates the Rebuilding and Personal Growth Seminars.
Program Overview
Janesville Psychiatric Clinic currently offers Cognitive Intervention Program Groups for Domestic Violence Relationships exclusively for deferred prosecution offenders. Groups are in compliance with the recommended standards set forth by the Governor's Council on Domestic Violence.
Self change is the goal of the program. The program provides the tools and techniques to help learn pro-social thinking skills, problem solving skills, and appropriate expression of emotions.
Treatment objectives include increasing the abuser's acceptance of responsibility for behavior, assisting the abuser to develop behavioral alternatives to battering, and increasing the abuser's ability to constructively express emotions.
The group provides a place where a batterer can decrease his isolation and his dependency on the victim. In the group, he learns to make connections with his peers and to develop the interpersonal skills necessary to meet his own needs constructively. He has instant peer role models for change as well as opportunity to be a more positive role model for others. Groups are more successful in confronting denial as well as getting the support once changes in behavior begin.
Core Learning and Skills
Defining violence
Relationship Development
Family Structure and boundaries
How beliefs influence thoughts and feelings
Understanding basic human wants
Power and control
Male privilege and isolation
Emotional abuse and intimidation
Sexual abuse
Denial as a self protecting behavior
Finding key patterns of abuse
Cognitive distortions and fair discussion guidelines
Interventions for cognitive role play
Victim empathy
Applying alternative thoughts through role play
Design of a relapse prevention plan
Writing the plan and applying the plan.
Further Information
For further information, please call the clinic at 608-755-1475.