TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Stepping Stones and Creating Futures: a group-based approach to addressing violence against women through working with men JO - Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken) A1 - Gibbs, Andrew A1 - Mkhwanazi, Smanga A1 - Sikweyiya, Yandisa SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - In low- and middle-income countries, group-based interventions to address intimate partner violence (IPV) working with men, whether or not they are violent themselves, are increasingly common. Stepping Stones and Creating Futures (SSCF) is one intervention demonstrating reductions in men's perpetration of IPV through working with men around gender inequalities and livelihoods. Using a case study of Thembani, a young man living in an urban informal settlement in South Africa who was a participant within a large randomized controlled trial evaluating SSCF, we discuss how his use of violence changed. This reduction occurred through recognition that his situation was not a personal failing, but similar to others, thus reducing the shame he felt, learning to control his anger, and starting to understand how others felt when he used his power over others. This case study provides some initial evidence about how group-based interventions working with men may start to transform men's practices.

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LA - en SN - 0021-9762 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23293 ID - ref1 ER -