Monday, December 6, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 3
'Anger released in the form of battering9
Help offered to wife batterers
By Lori Sullivan
Mental illness is rarely the cause for domestic violence;1"
the violence is behavior which .is learned and can be
stopped, said a psychologist speaking at the Nebraska
State Conference on Domestic Violence and Sexual
Assault on Friday.
Anne Ganley, a psychologist from Seattle, Wash.,
who specializes in counseling men who batter women,
was the featured speaker at the Friday meeting of the
conference Thursday through Sunday at the Lincoln
Hilton Hotel.
A training seminar was also held for therapists work
ing to improve their skills in counseling men who batter.
Currently, Nebraska doe's not have a program that will
allow the court system, to order offenders to complete
counseling and treatment. Ganley, author of "Court
Mandated Counseling for Men Who Batter," has con
ducted training sessions nationally to help therapists
learn to specialize in treatment.
Various types of battering
Different types of battering, Ganley. said, include
"hands-on" battering, including physical and sexual
battering, and "hahds-off" battering, which is psycholo
gical and emotional battering and the destruction of
personal property.
Men who batter learn to strike out violently at another
person when they experience pressures, she said. They
have nqt used other ways to reduce the pressures, such
as verbal expression or problem solving.
Another learned behavior of men who batter is that
they think the safest place to strike out violently is in
their families, Ganley said. In a job setting, the same
men do not become violent because they fear punishment
for their violent behavior.
Anger easily expressed
Men do not easily express all their emotions, Ganley
said. One of the few accepted emotions a man can express
is arigef.. Men who batter have translated all negative
emotions into anger released in the form of battering,
she said.
Most men who batter were either beaten when they
were children or witnessed their mothers being battered,
she said.
"What interests me about this reality is that men who
batter rarely realize the connection between what they
experienced as children and what they are now doing.
Even though they will duplicate the violence used against
them and the violence they are now doing," Ganley said.
Often men block the childhood incidents out of their
minds so completely they only realize patterns exist
after they begin treatment, she said.
"It's as if they took all those horrible memories and
put them in the past someplace and have no sense of how
the memories continue to influence them," Ganley said.
. Work with former prisoners of the Vietnam war
helped Ganley to see an association between them and
women who are psychologically battered, she said. In
the case of psychological battering, at least oe physical
attack has occurred. Both the prisoners and the women
lived in constant fenr of another attack and neither group
has control over what is happening to them, she said.
The important difference between .the two groups
is that the prisoners know that the abuse they are re
ceiving is from an enemy, but battered women cannot
make that clear distinction.
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Panelist: Finding a job is hard work
By Jeff Goodwin '"v
Business students seeking jobs shouldn't wait until the
last minute to start looking for them.
That was the advice of a panel of businessmen, tea
chers and advisers who participated in a discussion
sponsored by Omicroij Delta Epsilon Thursday night at
the College of Business Administration.
Participating in the discussion were Dan Ransdell,
an economic forecaster with the Nebraska Department
of Revenue; Dave Palm of the Nebraska Department of
Health Planning; Craig MacPhee, chairman of the UNL
economics department; Ed Hauswald, adviser for all
UNL undergraduate economics students and associate
professor of economics; Anne Kopera, coordinator of
advising for the Arts and Sciences College; Bob Lovgren
of Mutual of Omaha; L.G. Searcey of First National
Bank; and William Wilkie, a senior vice president at
American Charter bank.
Kopera said' students should realize early that find
ing a job is a difficult process.
"You need to accept the fact that you will have to
work hard to find a job," Kopera said.
She recommends that students look for summer and
part-time employment in their chosen field.
"Using your minor and electives to round out your
skills and make them more attractive to employers is
also a good idea," Kopera said.
Students should also register early with the place
ment office to take advantage of all possible interviews.
MacPhee said that economics provides students with
a varied background.
"It gives you a background that can be useful in a
lot of different fields," MacPhee said.
MacPhee said the job market for economics students
is promising.
'The market looks very good for economics majors
with bachelor's, master's or doctor's degrees," he said.
"At the last conference I attended there were three job
openings tor every Ph. D. in economics."
Ransdell warned of the pressures that such a job
entails.
"When you get into the world of statistical forecasting
you find there's no room for statistical error," he said.
"The criticism can get very vicious. If things go right you
can't find a better job situation, but it's also very stress
ful." Wilkie stressed the importance of good writing skills.
"One of the things that can ruin your career in business
faster than anything is writing a bad report,"
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