EFFECTIVENESS OF DIALECTICAL BEHAVIORAL THERAPY WITH RELIGIOSITY APPROACH AS TREATMENT FOR INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE COMMITTED BY MEN, IRAN, URMIA, 2006-7

According to reports, intimate partner violence is a serious threat to public health. While the most of therapies focus on the victims, it seems necessary to study viable therapies for offenders. To survey the effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy with a religiosity approach on intimate partner violence, 38 men who had committed physical violence against their partners were assessed in a randomized controlled trial. Blocking randomized allocation was used to divide the sample study into intervention and comparison groups. The therapy used in the intervention group was dialectical behavioral with religiosity approach. Cognitive therapy was used for the comparison group. Violence and religiosity has marked two months before and after treatment with a validated intimate partner violence questionnaire of Iran Medical University and modified religiosity project scale of Boston University. According to this study dialectical behavioral therapy with religiosity approach in treatment of physical or psychic violence is more effective than cognitive therapy (p=0.018 for physical violence and p=0.011 for psychic violence). Our results have also shown that religiosity has a negative correlation with intimate partner violence. Dialectical behavioral therapy with religiosity approach should be considered as the effectual method for treatment of intimate partner violence. Religion has a strong influence on preventing of violence among partner.