This article reports on the first year of a pilot programme based on solution-focused and narrative approaches to working with violent adults who were not receiving assistance to change their behaviour. These adults constituted two groups: violent women for whom there was no service provision at all; and violent men who were either unwilling or unable to attend any of the existing programmes.
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