Frederick P Buttell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6186002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick P Buttell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick P |
| FAMILY NAME | Buttell |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTELL F P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Covid-19, Intimate Partner Violence, and Communication Ecologies
The purpose of this research is to identify important predictors, related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, of intimate partner violence (IPV) and to provide insight into communication ecologies that can address IPV in disaster contexts. This study uses a cross-sectional design, with purposive snowball sampling, for primary survey data collected over 10 weeks starting the first week in April 2020. A total of 374 adults participated in the study. …
The hidden disaster of Covid-19: Intimate partner violence
The hidden and often unspoken impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV). This commentary addresses this issue and highlights a study undertaken to address this public health issue by generating empirical research on the relationship between COVID-19 and IPV. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Institutional Review Boards at Very High Research Activity Universities: An Opportunity for Social Workers
Objectives: This study investigated to what degree social work was represented in the position of chair of social–behavioral institutional review boards (IRBs) at very high research activity (VHRA) universities in the United States. Method: We collected data on IRB rosters for all 108 schools designated by the Carnegie Foundation as VHRAs in the United States and analyzed the percentage of chairs for social–behavioral IRBs that came from social w…
Can a “Psychosocial Model” Help Explain Violence Perpetrated by Female Batterers
Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the psychosocial predictors of propensity for abusiveness among a large sample of women ordered into a 26-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a nonequivalent, control group design (comparing program completers to dropouts) in a secondary analysis of 485 women. Results: Analysis indicated that (1) there were no significant differences between program completers an…
The Elizabeth Wisner Social Welfare Research Center for Families and Children at Tulane University
The Elizabeth Wisner Social Welfare Center for Families and Children is a community-based research center within the School of Social Work at the Tulane University. The Wisner Center primarily supports research projects that examine the causes and consequences of intimate partner violence, promote the development of new frameworks for understanding family violence, and utilize findings from research to inform interventions directed at reducing vi…
Evaluating Predictors of Program Attrition Among Women Mandated Into Batterer Intervention Treatment
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate pretreatment differences between treatment completers and dropouts among a large sample of women ordered into a 26-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a nonequivalent, control-group design (comparing program completers to dropouts) in a secondary analysis of 485 women mandated into a BIP. Results: Analysis indicated that (a) there are specific psychosocia…
A Large Sample Investigation of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition: Evaluating the Impact of State Program Standards
Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) investigate differences in demographic and psychological variables between treatment completers and dropouts among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program and (b) evaluate the goodness of fit of a logistic regression model for predicting attrition developed on a 16-week program by applying that model to the 26-week program. Method: The study employed a secondary analysis of 1,702 men…
An Evaluation of a Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Program: Investigating Differential Program Effect for African American and White Women
Objective: The purpose of this study is to (a) evaluate a 16-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of women involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) to investigate the differential effectiveness of this same batterer intervention program for African American and White batterers. Method: The study employed a secondary a…
A Large Sample Evaluation of a Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Program: Investigating Differential Program Effect for African American and Caucasian Men
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to (a) evaluate a 26-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, alcohol use, drug use, and stress coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a large sample of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) investigate the differential effectiveness of this same …
Empowering Battered Women by Validating Their Decision-Making Skills: The Role of Moral Development
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of moral reasoning among a sample of battered women and compare them with a national normative sample. Method: The study involved collecting Defining Issues Test (DIT) data from 50 women (age, M = 33, SD = 10) beginning their stay at a shelter for battered women. Unlike the original method of assessing moral reasoning involving a lengthy interview, the DIT is a multiple-choice test. C…
Do Batterer Intervention Programs Serve African American and Caucasian Batterers Equally Well? An Investigation of a 26-Week Program
Objective: The purpose of the study was to (a) evaluate a 26-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, substance use, and coping abilities) between pretreatment and post treatment assessments in a sample of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) to investigate the differential effectiveness of this same program for African Ameri…
A Multidimensional Assessment of a Batterer Treatment Program: An Alert to a Problem
This study’s goals were to (a) evaluate a batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, substance use, and coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) investigate the differential effectiveness of this same program for African American and Caucasian batterers. Arrest reco…
A Multidimensional Evaluation of a Treatment Program for Female Batterers: A Pilot Study
The purpose of the study was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of a batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, and stress coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of women involuntarily placed in treatment. This study evaluated arrest records for a period of 12 months following treatment completion t…
Reducing Juvenile Recidivism: Evaluating the Wraparound Services Model
Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) evaluate the relative effectiveness of wraparound services versus conventional services for juvenile delinquent youth and (b) create a predictive model that would assist the juvenile court system in correctly identifying youth at greatest risk of reoffending. Method: The study employed a pretest/posttest, control group design, with 6-, 12-, and 18-month follow-up assessments, of 141 youth court-orde…
Investigating the Differential Effectiveness of a Batterer Treatment Program on Outcomes for African American and Caucasian Batterers
Objective: This study (a) evaluated a batterer intervention program (BIP) by investigating changes in psychological variables (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, alcohol use, drug use, and stress-coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of court-mandated batterers and (b) investigated the differential effectiveness of this same BIP for African American and Caucasian batterers. Method: The stu…
Levels of Moral Reasoning Among Female Domestic Violence Offenders: Evaluating the Impact of Treatment
Objective: The purpose of this study was to: (a) investigate the level of moral reasoning of female batterers beginning court-mandated treatment, (b) investigate whether the current standardized treatment program was effective in altering the level of moral reasoning of female batterers, and (c) determine if there was an association between level of moral reasoning and recidivism at 2 years following treatment completion. Method: The study employ…
Investigating Predictors of Treatment Attrition Among Court-Ordered Batterers
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in demographic variables and psychological variables between treatment completers and drop-outs among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program. Method: The study gathered Domestic Violence Inventory (DVI) scores from 91 men, 66 treatment completers and 25 drop-outs, beginning court-ordered treatment for domestic violence offenses. Results: Logistic regression analy…
Moral Development Among Court-Ordered Batterers: Evaluating the Impact of Treatment
Objective: This study evaluated the impact of a standard cognitive-behavioral group treatment program on altering levels of moral reasoning among court-ordered batterers. Method: The study employed a nonequivalent control group design in examining the moral reasoning level of 32 adult men, 84% African American, court ordered into a standard group treatment program for domestic violence offenders. Results: Analysis of the pretest data indicated th…
Interpersonal Dependency Among Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders: A Descriptive Analysis
Moral Development Among Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders: A Descriptive Analysis
Despite intense research efforts, a theoretical framework for guiding intervention with batterers that is relevant for both African-American and Caucasian batterers has yet to be described and empirically verified. This study examines the moral reasoning level of 111 adult men, 66% African-American, court-ordered into treatment for domestic violence offenses. Results indicate that the entire sample of batterers was employing a level of moral reas…
Reducing Juvenile Recidivism: Evaluating the Wraparound Services Model
Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) evaluate the relative effectiveness of wraparound services versus conventional services for juvenile delinquent youth and (b) create a predictive model that would assist the juvenile court system in correctly identifying youth at greatest risk of reoffending. Method: The study employed a pretest/posttest, control group design, with 6-, 12-, and 18-month follow-up assessments, of 141 youth court-orde…
A Large Sample Evaluation of a Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Program: Investigating Differential Program Effect for African American and Caucasian Men
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to (a) evaluate a 26-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, alcohol use, drug use, and stress coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a large sample of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) investigate the differential effectiveness of this same …
Investigating the Differential Effectiveness of a Batterer Treatment Program on Outcomes for African American and Caucasian Batterers
Objective: This study (a) evaluated a batterer intervention program (BIP) by investigating changes in psychological variables (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, alcohol use, drug use, and stress-coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of court-mandated batterers and (b) investigated the differential effectiveness of this same BIP for African American and Caucasian batterers. Method: The stu…
A Multidimensional Assessment of a Batterer Treatment Program: An Alert to a Problem
This study’s goals were to (a) evaluate a batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, substance use, and coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) investigate the differential effectiveness of this same program for African American and Caucasian batterers. Arrest reco…
A Multidimensional Evaluation of a Treatment Program for Female Batterers: A Pilot Study
The purpose of the study was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of a batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, and stress coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of women involuntarily placed in treatment. This study evaluated arrest records for a period of 12 months following treatment completion t…
Covid-19, Intimate Partner Violence, and Communication Ecologies
The purpose of this research is to identify important predictors, related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, of intimate partner violence (IPV) and to provide insight into communication ecologies that can address IPV in disaster contexts. This study uses a cross-sectional design, with purposive snowball sampling, for primary survey data collected over 10 weeks starting the first week in April 2020. A total of 374 adults participated in the study. …
An Evaluation of a Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Program: Investigating Differential Program Effect for African American and White Women
Objective: The purpose of this study is to (a) evaluate a 16-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of women involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) to investigate the differential effectiveness of this same batterer intervention program for African American and White batterers. Method: The study employed a secondary a…
Do Batterer Intervention Programs Serve African American and Caucasian Batterers Equally Well? An Investigation of a 26-Week Program
Objective: The purpose of the study was to (a) evaluate a 26-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, substance use, and coping abilities) between pretreatment and post treatment assessments in a sample of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) to investigate the differential effectiveness of this same program for African Ameri…
Moral Development Among Court-Ordered Batterers: Evaluating the Impact of Treatment
Objective: This study evaluated the impact of a standard cognitive-behavioral group treatment program on altering levels of moral reasoning among court-ordered batterers. Method: The study employed a nonequivalent control group design in examining the moral reasoning level of 32 adult men, 84% African American, court ordered into a standard group treatment program for domestic violence offenders. Results: Analysis of the pretest data indicated th…
Interpersonal Dependency Among Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders: A Descriptive Analysis
Can a “Psychosocial Model” Help Explain Violence Perpetrated by Female Batterers
Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the psychosocial predictors of propensity for abusiveness among a large sample of women ordered into a 26-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a nonequivalent, control group design (comparing program completers to dropouts) in a secondary analysis of 485 women. Results: Analysis indicated that (1) there were no significant differences between program completers an…
A Large Sample Investigation of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition: Evaluating the Impact of State Program Standards
Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) investigate differences in demographic and psychological variables between treatment completers and dropouts among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program and (b) evaluate the goodness of fit of a logistic regression model for predicting attrition developed on a 16-week program by applying that model to the 26-week program. Method: The study employed a secondary analysis of 1,702 men…
Levels of Moral Reasoning Among Female Domestic Violence Offenders: Evaluating the Impact of Treatment
Objective: The purpose of this study was to: (a) investigate the level of moral reasoning of female batterers beginning court-mandated treatment, (b) investigate whether the current standardized treatment program was effective in altering the level of moral reasoning of female batterers, and (c) determine if there was an association between level of moral reasoning and recidivism at 2 years following treatment completion. Method: The study employ…
Moral Development Among Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders: A Descriptive Analysis
Despite intense research efforts, a theoretical framework for guiding intervention with batterers that is relevant for both African-American and Caucasian batterers has yet to be described and empirically verified. This study examines the moral reasoning level of 111 adult men, 66% African-American, court-ordered into treatment for domestic violence offenses. Results indicate that the entire sample of batterers was employing a level of moral reas…
Moral Development Among Court-Ordered Batterers: Evaluating the Impact of Treatment
Objective: This study evaluated the impact of a standard cognitive-behavioral group treatment program on altering levels of moral reasoning among court-ordered batterers. Method: The study employed a nonequivalent control group design in examining the moral reasoning level of 32 adult men, 84% African American, court ordered into a standard group treatment program for domestic violence offenders. Results: Analysis of the pretest data indicated th…
Interpersonal Dependency Among Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders: A Descriptive Analysis
Levels of Moral Reasoning Among Female Domestic Violence Offenders: Evaluating the Impact of Treatment
Objective: The purpose of this study was to: (a) investigate the level of moral reasoning of female batterers beginning court-mandated treatment, (b) investigate whether the current standardized treatment program was effective in altering the level of moral reasoning of female batterers, and (c) determine if there was an association between level of moral reasoning and recidivism at 2 years following treatment completion. Method: The study employ…
Investigating Predictors of Treatment Attrition Among Court-Ordered Batterers
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in demographic variables and psychological variables between treatment completers and drop-outs among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program. Method: The study gathered Domestic Violence Inventory (DVI) scores from 91 men, 66 treatment completers and 25 drop-outs, beginning court-ordered treatment for domestic violence offenses. Results: Logistic regression analy…
Reducing Juvenile Recidivism: Evaluating the Wraparound Services Model
Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) evaluate the relative effectiveness of wraparound services versus conventional services for juvenile delinquent youth and (b) create a predictive model that would assist the juvenile court system in correctly identifying youth at greatest risk of reoffending. Method: The study employed a pretest/posttest, control group design, with 6-, 12-, and 18-month follow-up assessments, of 141 youth court-orde…
Investigating the Differential Effectiveness of a Batterer Treatment Program on Outcomes for African American and Caucasian Batterers
Objective: This study (a) evaluated a batterer intervention program (BIP) by investigating changes in psychological variables (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, alcohol use, drug use, and stress-coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of court-mandated batterers and (b) investigated the differential effectiveness of this same BIP for African American and Caucasian batterers. Method: The stu…
Do Batterer Intervention Programs Serve African American and Caucasian Batterers Equally Well? An Investigation of a 26-Week Program
Objective: The purpose of the study was to (a) evaluate a 26-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, substance use, and coping abilities) between pretreatment and post treatment assessments in a sample of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) to investigate the differential effectiveness of this same program for African Ameri…
A Multidimensional Assessment of a Batterer Treatment Program: An Alert to a Problem
This study’s goals were to (a) evaluate a batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, substance use, and coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) investigate the differential effectiveness of this same program for African American and Caucasian batterers. Arrest reco…
A Multidimensional Evaluation of a Treatment Program for Female Batterers: A Pilot Study
The purpose of the study was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of a batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, and stress coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of women involuntarily placed in treatment. This study evaluated arrest records for a period of 12 months following treatment completion t…
An Evaluation of a Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Program: Investigating Differential Program Effect for African American and White Women
Objective: The purpose of this study is to (a) evaluate a 16-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a sample of women involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) to investigate the differential effectiveness of this same batterer intervention program for African American and White batterers. Method: The study employed a secondary a…
A Large Sample Evaluation of a Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Program: Investigating Differential Program Effect for African American and Caucasian Men
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to (a) evaluate a 26-week batterer intervention program by investigating changes in psychological variables related to abuse (i.e., truthfulness, violence, lethality, control, alcohol use, drug use, and stress coping abilities) between pretreatment and posttreatment assessments in a large sample of men involuntarily placed in treatment and (b) investigate the differential effectiveness of this same …
Empowering Battered Women by Validating Their Decision-Making Skills: The Role of Moral Development
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of moral reasoning among a sample of battered women and compare them with a national normative sample. Method: The study involved collecting Defining Issues Test (DIT) data from 50 women (age, M = 33, SD = 10) beginning their stay at a shelter for battered women. Unlike the original method of assessing moral reasoning involving a lengthy interview, the DIT is a multiple-choice test. C…
A Large Sample Investigation of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition: Evaluating the Impact of State Program Standards
Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) investigate differences in demographic and psychological variables between treatment completers and dropouts among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program and (b) evaluate the goodness of fit of a logistic regression model for predicting attrition developed on a 16-week program by applying that model to the 26-week program. Method: The study employed a secondary analysis of 1,702 men…
Evaluating Predictors of Program Attrition Among Women Mandated Into Batterer Intervention Treatment
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate pretreatment differences between treatment completers and dropouts among a large sample of women ordered into a 26-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a nonequivalent, control-group design (comparing program completers to dropouts) in a secondary analysis of 485 women mandated into a BIP. Results: Analysis indicated that (a) there are specific psychosocia…
Institutional Review Boards at Very High Research Activity Universities: An Opportunity for Social Workers
Objectives: This study investigated to what degree social work was represented in the position of chair of social–behavioral institutional review boards (IRBs) at very high research activity (VHRA) universities in the United States. Method: We collected data on IRB rosters for all 108 schools designated by the Carnegie Foundation as VHRAs in the United States and analyzed the percentage of chairs for social–behavioral IRBs that came from social w…
Can a “Psychosocial Model” Help Explain Violence Perpetrated by Female Batterers
Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the psychosocial predictors of propensity for abusiveness among a large sample of women ordered into a 26-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a nonequivalent, control group design (comparing program completers to dropouts) in a secondary analysis of 485 women. Results: Analysis indicated that (1) there were no significant differences between program completers an…
The Elizabeth Wisner Social Welfare Research Center for Families and Children at Tulane University
The Elizabeth Wisner Social Welfare Center for Families and Children is a community-based research center within the School of Social Work at the Tulane University. The Wisner Center primarily supports research projects that examine the causes and consequences of intimate partner violence, promote the development of new frameworks for understanding family violence, and utilize findings from research to inform interventions directed at reducing vi…
The hidden disaster of Covid-19: Intimate partner violence
The hidden and often unspoken impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV). This commentary addresses this issue and highlights a study undertaken to address this public health issue by generating empirical research on the relationship between COVID-19 and IPV. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Covid-19, Intimate Partner Violence, and Communication Ecologies
The purpose of this research is to identify important predictors, related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, of intimate partner violence (IPV) and to provide insight into communication ecologies that can address IPV in disaster contexts. This study uses a cross-sectional design, with purposive snowball sampling, for primary survey data collected over 10 weeks starting the first week in April 2020. A total of 374 adults participated in the study. …
Medicine (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (18 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Domestic violence (14 works) · Poison control (14 works) · Medical emergency (13 works) · Intervention (counseling (12 works)