If you integrate ACEs science into batterer intervention programs, recidivism plummets, and men (and women) heal
Traditional batterer intervention programs have a big gaping hole: They’re good at describing what men and women do to abuse their partners (intentionally control or dominate an intimate partner), and what they should stop doing (stop using power tactics against their partners), but they don’t get at the roots of why men and women abuse their partners: their adverse childhood experiences. A handful of people around the U.S. are integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices...