Advanced Training in Batterer Intervention

For Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, LPCs,
and Others Who Conduct BIP Groups

Saturday, November 2, 2024
9:00 a.m. - 3 p.m.
on the Zoom Platform

Presented by John Hamel


Completion of a Batterer Intervention Program (BIP), primarily offered in the psycho-educational group format, is mandated throughout the United States for men and women who have pled guilty to a domestic violence offense. In this special, live 5-hour training, John Hamel shares with you more than 30 years of research and clinical experience, having conducted or supervised hundreds of BIP groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Topics include:

  • BIPs and the criminal justice response to domestic violence
  • Early theories on best practices and what went wrong
  • Domestic violence as a complex problem and offenders as heterogeneous population
  • Lessons from research on psychotherapy outcome studies
  • Identifying what works rather than what is the best theory
  • Findings from The North Amrican Survey of BIP facilitators
  • Essential components of a group curriculum
  • Focus groups: Offenders and group facilitators share their experiences
  • Facilitating groups: What works
  • Keeping offenders and providers accountable 

5 Hours CEUs Available

About the Presenter

John Hamel, Ph.D., LCSW (www.johnhamel.net) has a Masters in Social Welfare from U.C.L.A., and a Ph.D. from the University of Central Lancashire, U.K. He has interviewed and provided individual, couples and group counseling to hundreds of family violence perpetrators and victims since 1992. Dr. Hamel is the author of Gender-Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse, 2nd Edition: Evidence-Based Approaches, (Springer, 2014); co-editor with Tonia Nicholls, PhD, of Family Interventions in Domestic Violence: A Handbook of Gender-Inclusive Theory and Treatment (Springer, 2007); and editor of Intimate Partner and Family Abuse: A Casebook of Gender Inclusive Therapy (Springer, 2008) as well as the more recent book, Gender and Domestic Violence: Contemporary Legal Practice and Intervention Reforms (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is Editor-in-Chief of Partner Abuse, a journal published quarterly by Springer Publishing, and has had dozens of his research articles published in various peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

Dr. Hamel has provided education and clinical training on best practices to mental health professionals, victim advocates social service organizations, law enforcement, attorneys and family court mediators, and has provided case consultation and expert witness testimony. He is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, and the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, and founded the Association of Domestic Violence Intervention Programs (ADVIP), an organization of mental health professionals and researchers dedicated to evidence-based practice (www.domesticviolenceintervention.net).