Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 105-3-.10 - Prohibited Intervention Practices & Activities

(1) The following intervention practices are specifically prohibited in FVIPs:

(a) Any intervention approach that blames the victim or suggests there is any behavior on the part of the victim that causes, provokes, or excuses abuse;

(b) Any intervention approach which treats the violence as a mutually circular process, minimizes the responsibility of the participant, or does not state clearly that participant's bear sole responsibility for their choices;

(c) Any couples, marriage, or family therapy or treatment;

(d) Any intervention approach which excuses a participant's violence and behavior;

(e) Any approach that coerces, mandates, or encourages voluntary participation of the victim;

(f) Any anger management techniques that identify anger as the cause of family and domestic violence;

(g) Any theories or techniques that identify psychopathology or substance abuse on the part of either party as the primary cause of family and domestic violence;

(h) Any intervention or approach whose goal is to preserve the relationship and/or the family at the expense of safety for partners/family, or whose doctrines promote an unequal distribution of power in the relationship which threatens the civil and human rights of the victim;

(i) Any intervention that provides any form of advocacy for the participant that places their partner/family at risk. This can include any action or inaction by the FVIP that serves to decrease the possibility that a participant will experience appropriate consequences for their abusive behavior and/or serves to increase the possibility that they will obtain privileges that result in any form of harm to their partner/family;

(j) Use of theories or techniques that identify poor impulse control as the primary cause of violence;

(k) Any approach that attempts to use containment methods in an attempt to de-escalate the violence; and

(l) Online, web-based programming.

Notes

Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 105-3-.10

O.C.G.A. §§ 19-13-13(a)& (b); 19-13-14(a) & (e); 19-13-17 .

Original Rule entitled "Prohibited Intervention Practices and Activities" adopted. F. Dec. 3, 2018; eff. Dec. 23, 2018.