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NCJ Number:	91088

Title:	Alcohol and Family Violence - Double Trouble (From Abusive Partner - An Analysis of Domestic Battering, P 136-147, 1982, Maria Roy, ed. See NCJ-91082)

Author(s):	J P Flanzer

Date Published:	1982

Page Count:	7

Sponsoring Agency:	Van Nostrand Reinhold New York, NY 10020

Sale Source:	Van Nostrand Reinhold 135 West 50th Street New York, NY 10020 United States of America

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	Alcohol consumption, especially by the batterer, is a frequent component of all forms of domestic violence, including spouse abuse.

Abstract:	Moderate and problem drinkers are more frequently involved than are light drinkers and abstainers. Heavier drinking involves worse abuse. The batterer is most often the husband. Three patterns often occur. In one pattern, the batterer seems to alternate between alcohol and aggression. In another pattern, battering appears only when alcohol is consumed. In the third pattern, the drinker imbibes until going into a helpless stupor and becoming the easy target for abuse. Families view the drinking parent in different ways, depending on which pattern exists. The family dynamics involved in battering and alcohol abuse are similar and overlapping and support one another. Without intervention, the families become increasingly more disorganized and vulnerable to crisis. Their most basic need is for physical safety, which should be the first focus of intervention. Next, these families can be viewed in terms of the classic psychotherapeutic concept of triangulation. Efforts must focus on getting off the dysfunctional triangle. If either alcohol use or the battering is ignored while attention is focused on the other, neither will cease. Eleven references are cited.

Index Term(s):	Abusing spouses; Alcohol-crime relationship; Group therapy



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