Most of the published outcome literature fails to report on the progress of participants on the targets of the program, leaving unanswered the question of whether the offenders have made gains on objectives theoretically related to domestic violence and whether the extent to which offenders demonstrate specific participant abilities or skills contributes to outcome. [...] Later modules involve the offenders in the development of relapse prevention plans that include the planning of coping strategies to avoid or manage high- risk situations, the identification of people to avoid who contribute to the risk of further abuse and, conversely, the identification of a support network who will assist in maintaining a commitment to healthy relationships. [...] Their partners had called the police because of their abuse in two- thirds (67%) of the cases for the high-intensity and 61% of the moderate-intensity participants;. [...] As expected, the offenders’ social histories included experience of personal victimisation and family disruption: most of the high-intensity participants (61%) and half of the moderate-intensity participants had witnessed the abuse of their mothers and two thirds of the men from both programs had themselves been abused as a child. [...] In addition to a number of profiling measures that assessed the offenders’ level of psychopathology, all offenders completed a battery designed to assess the impact of the program on the program targets: attitudes towards women abuse, and lack of skill in managing emotions and social situations and coping with high-risk situations.