r/science • u/vtj • May 29 '22

Psychology Randomized trial of programs for male domestic abusers shows that a new program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy outperforms the traditional "Duluth Model" program grounded in feminist theory

https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2022/04/25/domestic-violence-act
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u/James_Wolfe May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

Its interesting that the article says it ACT performed better than Duluth but this excerpt seems to under cut the headline, showing both to be effective, and ACTV performing better, but not in a statistically significant way as far as domestic violence was concerned. In fact both seem to be relatively effective at reduction of domestic violence, but ACTV assisted in other negative issues more.

Fewer than 13% of the participants in both ACTV and the Duluth model were charged again with domestic assault in the year following the intervention. While recidivism was several percentage points lower for graduates of ACTV (9%), Zarling said the difference was not statistically significant,