Social Representation Of Perpertators In Italian Social Workers PDF Download

In recent years, the attention for perpetrators treatment programs has increasingly, but in Italy this is a new intervention area (Bozzoli, Merelli & Ruggerini, 2017).The World Report on Violence and Health (WHO, 2014) suggested an ecological approach to the gender and domestic violence to understand the nature of this issue (Chiurazzi, Arcidiacono & Helms, 2015). Violent behavior is analysed on individual, relational, socio-cultural and community levels, considering also the main theoretical approaches (feminist, social, psychological and psychodynamic).The literature analysed the effectiveness of treatment programs (Gondolf, 2004; WHO, 2007; Aldarondo, 2009; Gondolf, 2011), but rarely representations of operators working with violent men.In an ecological perspective, the research aimed at exploring how stakeholders and professional of domestic violence system represented the perpetrators and their motivation to adherence to the intervention programs. Fifty Focalized Narrative Interviews (Arcidiacono, 2016) were collected and analysed by Grounded Theory Method (Corbin, Strauss, 2008).The preliminary analysis highlighted that perpetrator is described as fragile, narcissists (structured power on the maintenance of the oppressed), seducers and manipulators (even with operators), with difficulties in communication and thought (acting-out), often victims of assisted and/or direct violence during childhood, low tolerance and often with other addictions (alcohol, drugs and gambling).In particular, the female workers often appear to be resigned to the assessment of a possible change of the perpetrators, but they propose the fatherhood identity as a motivating factor to create insight into the need for behaviour change, as suggested by the more recent literature fatherhood (Stanley et al., 2012)The research was carried out within the framework of the.