A nurse planning a group to help batterers learn more effective ways to cope would teach participants that the key component in wife battering is:
a. Their need for the batterer to control
b. The role of alcohol in the pattern of abuse
c. History of psychotic or paranoid behavior
d. Failure of the woman involved to assert herself
ANS: A
The batterer uses violence as a means of controlling his partner to meet his own needs. Alco-hol use is not the root cause of spousal abuse. There are no data to support mental illness as a factor in abusive relationships. Assertive behavior may result in increased abuse.
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