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Alternativ til Vold (ATV) de Norvège — Programme Thérapeutique de Traitement pour les Auteurs de Violences Conjugales

Premier centre thérapeutique européen pour auteurs de violences conjugales (Oslo, 1987), l'ATV gère aujourd'hui 15 bureaux en Norvège. Une étude de résultats du NKVTS documente la réduction des violences entre partenaires 1,5 an après le traitement ; le modèle a été adopté en Suède, en Islande et au Danemark.

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Alternativ til Vold (ATV) de Norvège — Programme Thérapeutique de Traitement pour les Auteurs de Violences Conjugales

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Stiftelsen Alternativ til Vold
Period: 1987-present
Keywords: gender-based violence, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, perpetrator treatment, psychotherapy, victim support

Context

Alternativ til Vold (ATV) de Norvège, fondée à Oslo en 1987, a été le premier centre européen de traitement thérapeutique des auteurs de violences entre partenaires intimes et compte aujourd'hui 15 antennes dans tout le pays.

Results

Une étude de résultats du NKVTS documente une réduction des violences entre partenaires environ 1,5 an après le traitement, et le modèle a été adopté en Suède, en Islande et au Danemark.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-21
Stiftelsen Alternativ til Vold — accessed 2026-06-21
Stiftelsen ATV — English — accessed 2026-06-21
NKVTS — Characteristics of men in ATV treatment (process study) — accessed 2026-06-21
Norway National Action Plan Against Domestic Violence 2021-2024 (Frihet fra Vold) — accessed 2026-06-21

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Quality score: 96/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 4% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

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Transferability / replicability2/3

The ATV model has been formally replicated in Sweden (4 offices), Iceland (1 office), Denmark (Lev Uden Vold) and Austria (DVOTA), with documented methodology transfer across four countries.

Impact on gender equality1/1

An NKVTS-collaboration outcome study based on client and partner reports documents reduction in all forms of partner violence 1.5 years after treatment completion.

Effectiveness1/1

The NKVTS outcome study by Askeland, Birkeland, Lømo & Tjersland shows violence reduction among men completing the ATV treatment programme.

Efficiency1/1

~100 professionals across 15 offices deliver integrated services to perpetrators, victims and children simultaneously, avoiding fragmented case management.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

NKVTS (independent Norwegian government violence research centre) published a process study of 192 men in ATV treatment (2010–2011) and launched an RCT in 2023.

Sustainability1/1

Operating continuously since 1987 — 38 years — and formally embedded in Norway's 2021–2024 National Action Plan Against Domestic Violence (Frihet fra Vold).

Achievement / evidence1/1

15 offices and ~100 full-time professionals in Norway; model exported to four countries; designated primary referral pathway in Norwegian criminal justice.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

ATV explicitly frames intimate partner violence as a gendered phenomenon; feminist-informed psychotherapy addresses male perpetration and female victimisation as interlinked.

Curator validation1/1

Sources include NKVTS (independent government research institution), the Norwegian Ministry of Justice national action plan, and a Springer Nature reference-work entry.

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