In Duluth, Minnesota, after a brutal domestic homicide in 1980, the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project discovered a community ready to experiment with new practices to tackle the problem of men's violence against their intimate partners (Pence & Paymar, 1993). The Domestic Abuse Intervention Project spent months visiting different women's educational groups and asking them what was happening in their abusive relationships and what types of things they would like their partners to change. From these discussions with women, DAIP created the Power and Control Wheel in 1984 (Pence and Aravena, 2010; What is the Duluth Model, 2011). The wheel of power and control is an important part of the Duluth model; it includes eight sections: child use, male privilege, economic abuse, coercion and threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation and minimization, denial and blame. Child use is defined as the abuser using the children to deliver certain messages, using the visits to harass the battered woman, or threatening to take the children away. The use of male privilege is defined as being able to define the roles of men and women, to make all important decisions for the family or to treat women as servants. Some examples of economic abuse are when the abuser simply 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 abuser threatening to leave the woman or threatening to commit suicide or harm her or her family. The use of intimidation involves using gestures, looks or actions to scare the woman or even harming pets and destroying property. Psychological violence may include treating the woman as...... middle of paper ...... analysis of the achievements and unintended consequences of intervention programs and discourse with abusers. Journal of Family Violence, 17(2), 167-184. Pence, E. and Aravena, L. (2010). Duluth Program Discussion: Creating a process of change for men who beat. Violence Against Women, 16(9), 1007-1021. Pence, E. and Paymar, M. (1993). Domestic violence information manual. The Duluth Domestic Violence Intervention Project: The Handbook. Retrieved March 25, 2014 from http://www.eurowrc.org/05.education/education_en/12.edu_en.htmStover, CS, Meadows, AL, & Kaufman, J. (2009). Intimate partner violence interventions: 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. Accessed March 11, 2014 from http://www.theduluthmodel.org/about/index.html