Menergy

"Paul Bukovec is the Director of Menergy, a counseling center for men which he founded in 1994.  In this capacity he serves as chief clinician for a practice that specializes in the treatment of perpetrators of domestic abuse.  As head of this treatment program for spouse and partner abusers, he is responsible for programming, clinical supervision and the coordination of all direct service, including individual and group evaluation and treatment for offenders, and training and outreach presentations on domestic violence in a wide variety of settings.  He serves as a consultant  and trainer for local and state-wide domestic violence agencies and coalitions.  To the service community at large, Paul serves as a case consultant for domestic violence cases involving victims and perpetrators.  He has spoken at many national and regional professional conferences and has been a guest interviewee on local television and radio on numerous occasions.  He was featured with his program, Project RAP on the ABC-TV news show "20/20," in December, 1987.  Paul was the founder and director of that program for Family Service of Philadelphia for 10 years, designing it as the first abuser treatment program in the Philadelphia area.  During that tenure, Paul organized and chaired The Brown Bag Forum, a monthly professional training series featuring local experts speaking on a variety of subjects relating to family violence, which served hundreds of clinicians locally.  In 1988, Paul coordinated and chaired a major two-day national conference:  Violence in the Family, hosting over 400 professionals from around the U.S.

An active member of the state-wide Batterers Intervention Services Network, Paul is a co-author of Standards For Batterers Programs promulgated by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence.  He has also written a monograph, "Psychotherapy For The Male Batterer," published in The Renfrew Perspective.

Paul was a full-time assistant professor for 4 1/2 years in the Child Care Department of Temple University, and a part-time instructor for Community College of Philadelphia for several years.  He has also been a field supervisor for graduate social work students from Smith, Bryn Mawr, University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny  University, Rutgers University, and Temple University.  He has guest lectured at most of the local colleges and graduate clinical programs."