Strength At Home: Veterans' Program (PTSD-Focused Therapy for Anger and Relationship Conflict Among OEF/OIF Veterans)

Boston VA Research Institute, Inc.

Status

Completed

Conditions

Domestic Violence

Treatments

Behavioral: PTSD-Focused CBT for Partner Violence

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01435512

PT073945

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a research study funded by the Department of Defense to test a therapeutic intervention for male combat veterans who engage in intimate partner violence (IPV). The investigators hope to decrease the recurrence of relationship aggression and help veterans manage anger. The primary aim of the study is to test the intervention.

Full description

The purpose of this project is to develop, standardize, and test an intervention for combat veterans exposed to trauma who engage in intimate partner aggression (IPA). This intervention, formerly labeled PTSD-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Partner Violence (PFCBT), and currently called the Strength at Home, Veteran's Program, incorporates components of interventions for IPA and trauma and will target mechanisms implicated in the relationship between trauma and IPA. This project addresses a number of the research gaps in this area of research including: (a) the development of a novel treatment approach to improve functioning and well-being of affected individuals; (b) tertiary prevention (of repeated IPA) during re-integration; and (c) examination of the efficacy of a program providing support for the families and caregivers of veterans with combat history.

Enrollment

135 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Any era veteran
Over the age of 18
In a relationship within a female partner within the last 6 months
At least one act of male-to-female physical aggression over the previous 6 months or at least one act of male-to-female severe violence in the past 12 months
Male participant must consent for partner contact

Exclusion criteria

Participant evidences severe organicity or active psychosis
Reading difficulties prevent valid completion of the assessment instruments
Participant expresses prominent suicidal or homicidal ideation
Participant meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol and/or drug dependence, if not in early full remission or sustained partial remission