Perceptions About Group Interventions With Men Who are Authors of Violence Against Women

Abstract

This study aimed to understand perceptions about the participation in a reflexive group directed to authors of violence against women. The participants were twenty men who were referred by the domestic violence court of an administrative district of the Federal District to a service directed to this clientele. From pre and postgroup interviews and analysis by the bioecological perspective, the group presented itself as a place of reception and listening to men, as well as an important tool in the deconstruction of legitimizing ideas of violence and of a hegemonic, heteronormative and rigid model of masculinity. The group proved to be important in the construction of new forms of male subjectivation, socialization and sociability for possible reframing of their trajectories. The men perceived the participation as positive and there were changes in the discourses about violence, marital relationships, Maria da Penha Law and in relation to the engagement in the reflective group