Program for Alleviating Relationship Trauma and Stress for Intimate Partner Violence - Randomized Control Trial

Conditions

• Individuals Who Use Violence
• Interpersonal Violence

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

MALE

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Program For Alleviating Relationship Trauma and Stress through New Behaviors — BEHAVIORAL
  The experiential protocol includes 15 minutes of themed curriculum and 45 minutes of experiential exercises, e.g., going inside meditation, centering practice, witnessing their own parts, psychodrama, speaking for parts exercises, finding parts in the body, etc. In addition, participants will have 30 minutes to speak in the group about their experience and review the manual focused on new coping strategies and behaviors. We will ask participants to keep a journal to write down observations and parts they notice during the week and ask them to bring the journal and manual we send to them to the group so they can record information they remember after exercises. All participants also will be scheduled to have approximately six to nine standard clinical one-hour sessions with an individual IFS trained counselor (at least Level 1 IFS trained) during their time in the program, with an average of one-two sessions per month (6-9 total individual sessions).
• DVIT Treatment As Usual (TAU) — BEHAVIORAL
  Treatment As Usual (TAU) for people who use violence in interpersonal and domestic relationships. In WA state currently, these treatments are usually a mix of elements from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Duluth Model, and/or Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT). Participants in this group will not be exposed to IFS during TAU, to preserve the integrity of the study design. The number of individual counseling sessions during TAU will be tracked, but it can vary based on need in the treatment as usual modalities.

Study Details

This research study investigates the feasibility of a randomized control trial of a group-based treatment program for reducing stress, trauma, substance use, and use of violence among individuals who were court-mandated to attend a program after committing an act(s) of domestic violence. The study is in a 2-arm design with an intervention group and a control group.

Key Dates

First listed

Aug 5, 2026

Start date

Aug 1, 2026

Status verified

Jul 2026

Primary completion

Jul 31, 2027

Completion

Jul 31, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

48 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Experimental: PARTS-NB Arm
  Participants (N=24 anticipated) randomly allocated to this arm with undergo an IFS-based intervention called PARTS-NB, which curriculum is adapted from the original PARTS program and encompasses a mix of weekly group sessions (120 minutes each) for 20 weeks and individual IFS therapy sessions (minimum 6, and up to 9).
• Active Comparator: DVIT-TAU Arm
  The control group (N=24 anticipated) will follow Treatment As Usual (TAU) for people who use violence in interpersonal and domestic relationships. Currently in WA state, these treatments are a mix of elements from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Duluth Model, and/or Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT). Participants in this group will not be exposed to IFS during TAU to preserve the integrity of the study design. The number of individual counseling sessions during TAU will be tracked, but it can vary based on need in the treatment as usual modalities.

Primary Outcome Measure

H1.1 - Intervention Feasibility [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 20 weeks ]

Central Contacts

• Laure Tobiasz Veltz, ALM, MBA, MS
  617-806-8735
  [email protected]

Locations (2)

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