Fathers and Violence

Carla Smith Stover, PhD, is Director of the Fathers for Change Program at the Yale University School of Medicine Child Study Center. Dr. Stover received a Career Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse that initiated her research on interventions for fathers with intimate partner violence (IPV) behaviors. She developed Fathers for Change and has continued to conduct studies of the intervention. She has published widely on the topics of trauma, IPV, and substance misuse, and has presented trainings internationally on the topics of family conflict, healthy relationships, family violence, engaging and treating fathers, and interventions for childhood trauma. Dr. Stover serves on the editorial board of the journal Advances in Dual Diagnosis.