This study aims to examine the prevalence of wife abuse, to review the characteristics of abusive husband, abused wife and their relationships, to search out the reality of the present treatment intervention and actual social services, and to devise the countermeasures in the domain of therapeutic intervention, prevention, and the policy implication. This study is based on literature review and interview counseling cases with 20 abused wives and her husbands who had asked author`s help in Korean Family Counseling & Education Institute. The results are as follows: Stereotype of marital violence is inclined to be regarded as the private sphere and marital conflict. As a result, marital violence is concealed and is not found on an early stage. Consequently, It results in severe habitual violence, helplessness of battered wives, multigenerational transference of violence, disruption of family bonding and domestic criminal. Because of the wife battering, many family members(battered wives, battering husband and their children) are troubled with emotional, mental pain, and their family relationships become disfuntional. The battered wives tend to solve their problem within the family or for themselves instead of appealing to a formal social aids. The major therapeutic intervention to a client are psychiatry, feminism counseling, family counseling/therapy. The charateristics of process and skills of each therapeutic intervention are reviewed and compared. The main parts of social service are counseling services for emotional support and the strategies for marital violence, but counseling or treatment services for the abusive husbands do not exist. The necessity of the family treatment services as family system approach is emphasized. The following suggestions are proposed for the prevention of marital violence. 1. Socio-cultural norms that tolerate violence should be changed. 2. Social conditions regarding the marital violence should be changed. Social structure should accept the gender equalitarianism. 3. The social services should focus not only on the abused wife, but on abusive husband and their children(the family system) as well. 4. The treatment program for the abusive husbands and legal reqirements should be imposed as a treatment.