ON ADVANCING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF BATTERING - COMMENTARY ON MYERS

Myers offers an important challenge to behavior analysts: eliminating the battering of women. In this commentary, we extend the conceptual m odel advocated by Myers, urge a bidirectional approach that focuses mo re on the battered woman and less on the battering man, caution agains t the indiscriminate use of marital therapy approaches, and argue that the most important contributions in the field may come from behaviora l prevention rather than treatment interventions.