Abused wives are provided with individual or group therapy emphasizing support, guidance, and empowerment, and they are helped to free themselves from their traditional passive-dependent role. In this view, both the husband and wife are seen as victims. Therefore, both spouses are expected to change to improve their relationships. The treatment is conducted separately in parallel individual or group counseling. The goal of the therapy is to encourage abusive men to stop violent behavior and take responsibility for their violence.
Dyadic treatment is mutual and interactive conjoint treatment.
I reviewed both gender specific and non-gender specific treatments. Today, non-specific treatment is more effective than gender specific treatment. On the other hand, it is pointed out that gender-specific treatments would be more likely to show relapses than conjoint therapy because structural changes for the whole family cannot occur. In the case of some abusive individuals who are too abusive, conjoint therapy may raise the risk of aggression in the treatment. Various arguments about treatments still continued.