This article discusses the Encounter Group as a psychological intervention in the public health area. It shortly describes a research and its aplication in the Domestic Violence Program mantained by the Consultorio Externo of the Escuela de Psicología at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. It used a phenomenological method to analysethe videotaped sessions. The results show that the emergent content of the sessions referred basicaly to the themes related to domestic violence towards women and the ways to cope with this situation, which confirms the hipothesis of encounter group indication for treatment in public health with battered women.
intrafamiliar violence; encounter group; women