Marisol Lila, Ph.D., is full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia, and is member of the Vio-strategy research group (Advanced research strategies on family and gender violence). She has a long research experience in the field of intimate partner violence against women, and has published a large body of literature in national and international journals. She has directed and participated in numerous research projects. Since 2006 she is the director of a Batterer Intervention Program in the University of Valencia (Programa Contexto: a research, training, intervention and prevention program by working with the perpetrator). She is Associate Editor of the journal Psychosocial Intervention.