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International Adaptation of a Treatment Program for Situational Couple Violence
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Health to develop and test a program for couples experiencing IPV: Domestic Violence Focused Couples Treatment (DVFCT). This article provides an overview of DVFCT, and presents three case studies illustrating how DVFCT has been adapted for use in Colombia, Iran, and Finland. This article emphasizes the need for adapting treatment models to be culturally informed, provides practice-based evidence for DVFCT as a treatment model, and highlights the importance of careful screening and assessment when working with couples who have experienced violence, no matter the country or location where treatment is being conducted. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a serious problem throughout the world (Devries et al., 2013). Michael Johnson (2008) developed a typology of IPV. His work has been reviewed and replicated and has been identified as the most influential typologies proposed so far (Ali, Dhingra, & McGarry, 2016, p. 18). Johnson reported that there are two prominent types of IPV-Intimate Terrorism (IT) and Situational Couple Violence (SCV). IT is characterized by one partner