Treatment Details

The Objectives

Our group process is designed to facilitate better understanding of human dynamics, improved communication, and strategies to deal with challenging life circumstances.

Assist participants with skills in resolving difficult situations and how to better understand the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others.

Learn more about the cultural and social contexts of relationships and eliminate unproductive methods of communication.

Increase participants' understanding of what motivates their actions, and support the willingness to change by examining the negative effects of certain behaviors on intimate partners, children, and friends.

Encourage group participants to become accountable by helping them acknowledge, accept, and take responsibility for the impact of their behavior upon others and take specific steps to make more positive choices.

Provide participants with practical information about how to change old patterns of behavior, and explore new and constructive ways of relating in intimate relationships.

The Sessions

The sessions are typically a “therapeutic hour” of 45 minutes long (depending on the number of attendees). The length of enrollment is dependent upon what suits your individual needs.

These are open groups, so individuals may begin at any time. The process to enroll includes a simple demographic intake and a brief assessment of your goals and what you wish to accomplish regarding a variety of areas in your life.

NWEC also offers a Parenting After DV course. This program covers similar materials that conform to a standard DVIT program with the emphasis upon how DV effects children. Our Parenting After DV groups provide education on child-development and many other topics such as communicating with an ex-spouse and learning how to co-parent in a positive way.

We provide a space for personal growth while improving greater accountability.

Parenting After DV

The NWEC “Parenting after DV” program facilitates the cessation of DV in the home by helping participants understand how DV impacts children.

Northwest Evaluation Center (NWEC) provides an ongoing program for “Parenting after DV.” Group sessions are designed for parents with a balanced approach of psychoeducation and therapeutic processing, dealing with how Domestic Violence impacts children and impacts the dynamics of the entire family. Each session has a topic that is presented which initiates group discussion and learning.

Participants learn how children are affected by domestic violence in the home.

Participants will better understand how witnessing violence affects the brain development of children.

Participants learn how children who are exposed to Domestic Violence in the home are at risk for lifelong problems into adulthood.