Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 137 - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE › Division 87 - BATTERER INTERVENTION PROGRAM RULES › Section 137-087-0050 - Intervention Curriculum

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Basic
			 Intervention Curriculum Requirements. Challenging and confronting participant
			 beliefs and behaviors shall be balanced by creating a safe and respectful
			 environment for change. To accord with these standards, a curriculum for
			 batterers shall include, but is not limited to, the following basic
			 requirements:
(a) Addressing belief systems
			 that legitimize and sustain battering of women and abuse of children;
(b) Informing participants about the types of
			 battering as defined in OAR 137-087-0005(2);
(c) Challenging participants to identify the
			 patterns of their battering behaviors and all tactics used to justify battering
			 such as denial, victim blaming, and minimizing; increasing participant
			 recognition of the criminal aspect of his thoughts and behavior; reinforcing
			 participant identification and acceptance of personal responsibility and
			 accountability for all such tactics; and reinforcing alternatives to
			 non-battering behavior;
(d)
			 Encouraging participants to identify the cultural factors that are used by a
			 batterer to legitimize both individual acts of abuse and control and battering
			 as a whole;
(e) Modeling respectful
			 and egalitarian behaviors and attitudes;
(f) Increasing participants' understanding
			 and acceptance of the adverse legal, interpersonal and social consequences of
			 battering;
(g) Increasing the
			 participants' overall understanding of the effects of battering upon their
			 victims, themselves, and their community, and encouraging participants to go
			 beyond the minimum requirements of the law in providing victims and their
			 children with financial support and restitution for the losses caused by their
			 battering;
(h) Identifying the
			 effects on children of battering directed at their mothers, including but not
			 limited to the incompatibility of the participant's battering with the child's
			 well-being, the damage done to children witnessing battering, and educating
			 participants about the child's need for a close mother-child bond, nurturance,
			 age-appropriate interactions, and safety;
(i) Encouraging participants to recognize the
			 responsibility of being a father including the emotional, physical and
			 financial support necessary to provide an environment to children that
			 encourages growth and stability;
(j) Facilitating participants' examination of
			 values and beliefs that are used to justify and excuse battering;
(k) Requiring participants to speak with
			 respect about their partners and other women, and challenging participants to
			 respect their partner and other women and to recognize their partner and other
			 women as equals who have the right to make their own choices;
(l) Encouraging empathy and awareness of the
			 effect of participants' behavior on others;
(m) Challenging participants to accept
			 personal responsibility and accountability for their actions;
(n) Encouraging participants to challenge and
			 change their own battering beliefs and behaviors; and
(o) Identifying how the participant uses
			 alcohol and other drugs to support battering behaviors.