Intervention in men convicted for gender violence

Abstract

The prevailing need to tackle the social problem of gender violence, forces us to redirect its approach and try to reduce cases from the psychological intervention. Denial of behavior is a common denominator in most cases. In this study we will try to make the assumption of the problem clear through the strategies provided. We will study the results of the Program of Intervention for Aggressors (PRIA), carried out in the Social Integration Center (C.I.S) of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) with men convicted of crimes of gender violence. From the cognitive-behavioral paradigm we will see the effectiveness of the treatment on the preconceived cognitive distortions, as a trigger for the violent actions, without forgetting the motivation to change the users. For this, a pretest-posttest evaluation was carried out in order to obtain the differences found before and after the application of the program. The data collected offer us a slight positive trend both in the evolution of cognitive distortions with respect to women, and in the use of violence as a strategy for resolving conflicts, although the size of the sample limits us in order to generalize the results.