This philosophy initially grew out of our clinical practice and training. Clinical practice is wholly different from batterer intervention work as we know it today.
Intervention is about education, consequences, confrontation, acknowledgment, identification, etc.
We believe that battering is about the conscious, intentional and premeditated act to control and dominate another person. Battering is instrumental behavior. Battering is not an illness or a condition. If, for example, we were to diagnose an individual as having an Intermittent Explosive Disorder there would be a number of problems. Most insurance company policies state that they will not cover court ordered treatment.