“…Moreover, although some researchers have advocated for gender-specific interventions for IPV (e.g., Leisring, Dowd, & Rosenbaum, 2005), it remains an empirical question as to whether gender specific programming is more or less effective than gender-neutral programming. Given findings of gender symmetry in rates of physical IPV, in emotional abuse and control, and in risk factors, and because men and women in the current study overlapped on 5 of the 7 motivation categories, BIP programming may prove most effective when it is primarily gender neutral (Capaldi, Knoble, Shortt, & Kim, 2012; Careny & Barner, 2012; Desmarais, Reeves, Nicholls, Telford, & Fiebert, 2012). …”