In Duluth, Minnesota, after a brutal domestic homicide in 1980, the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project discovered a community willing to try new practices to address the problem of men's violence against their partners intimate (Pence & Paymar, 1993). The Domestic Abuse Intervention Project spent months going to several educational groups for women and asking them what was going on in their abusive relationships and what kinds of things they would like their partner to change. From those discussions with women, DAIP created the Wheel of Power and Control in 1984 (Pence & Aravena, 2010; What is the Duluth Model, 2011). The Wheel of Power and Control is a significant part of the Duluth Model; consists of eight sections: use of children, male privilege, economic abuse, coercion and threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation and minimization, denial, and blame. The use of children is specified as the abuser using children to convey certain messages, using visits to harass the abused woman, or threatening to take the children away. It specifies that the use of male privilege is to define the roles of men and women, making all important decisions for the family or treating the woman as a servant. Some examples of economic abuse are when the abuser only gives the woman an allowance, taking away her money or preventing her from getting or keeping a job. Examples of the use of coercion and threats include the attacker threatening to leave the woman or commit suicide or to harm her or her family. The use of intimidation is specified as the use of gestures, looks or actions to scare the woman or even hurt pets and destroy property. Emotional abuse may include calling the woman “na…middle of the paper…”analysis of outcomes and unintended consequences of batterer intervention programs and discourse. Journal of Family Violence, 17(2), 167-184.Pence, E., & Aravena, L. (2010). Discussing the Duluth Curriculum: Creating a Change Process for Male Batters. Violence against women, 16(9), 1007-1021. Pence, E., & Paymar, M. (1993). Information manual on domestic violence. The Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project: The Handbook. Retrieved March 25, 2014, from http://www.eurowrc.org/05.education/education_en/12.edu_en.htmStover, C.S., Meadows, A.L., & Kaufman, J. (2009). Interventions for intimate partner violence: Review and implications for evidence-based practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 40(3), 223-233. What is the Duluth Model. (2011). The Duluth Model. Retrieved March 11, 2014, from http://www.theduluthmodel.org/about/index.html