Socialtjänstens behandlingsarbete för män som utövar våld mot kvinnor : En kvalitativ studie om vilken innebörd teori har för behandling

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study has been to increase the awareness of what significance models of explanation have for intervention programmes, aimed at perpetrators of intimate partner violence, within the Swedish social services. The study is not gender neutral, it centres on male batterers in heterosexual relationships. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five people working within the topical field. I analyzed their statements using an ecological model of understanding violence. The main finding was that the people I interviewed had a multiple understanding when it came to comprehending the violence, but that when it came down to the actual intervention they targeted mainly on elements in the individual spectra, such as feelings of frustration. To some extent they also focused on structural elements, such as gender roles.