5 Types of Abuse
A type of abuse involving an action that causes bodily injury.
What is physical abuse?
The initial stage of the relationship when everything seems amazing and there is little-to-no conflict between partners.
What is the honeymoon stage?
A communication style in which individuals AVOID expressing their opinions or feelings, protecting their rights, and identifying and meeting their needs.
What is Passive Communication?
The honeymoon, tension building, and explosion are the three stages in this self-perpetuating dynamic.
What is the Cycle of Violence?
The ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. Being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes.
What is empathy?
A type of abuse involving nonconsensual or unwanted contact that is erotic in nature.
What is sexual abuse?
The stage in the relationship involving criticism, withdrawal of affection, moodiness, and irritability.
What is the tension-building or walking on eggshells stage?
A communication style in which individuals express their feelings and opinions and advocate for their needs in a way that VIOLATES THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS.
What is Aggressive Communication?
The correct percentage of how much a person is responsible for himself/herself.
What is 100%?
Using words to communicate a positive message to another person is an example of this love language.
What are Words of Affirmation?
A type of abuse involving the use of words to deliberately hurt someone's feelings and wear down their self-esteem.
What is emotional/verbal abuse?
The most destructive stage in the relationship involving physical or sexual abuse, psychological warfare, or action that can sentence you to 26 weeks of PAIP.
What is the explosion/violence stage?
A communication style in which individuals clearly state their opinions and feelings, and firmly advocate for their rights and needs WITHOUT violating the rights of others. It involves cordial/respectful talks.
What is Assertive Communication?
When in someone's system, they add "fuel to the flame" in relationships due to a decrease in inhibitions and rational thinking. It is one of the main factors that has led people to be involved in Domestic Violence groups in the first place.
What is a mood-altering substance (or drugs or alcohol?
A type of listening. Giving someone your full, undivided attention while demonstrating appropriate nonverbal communication. It often leads to greater understanding, empathy, and healthier relationships.
What is Active Listening?
A type of abuse involving the control of the ability to acquire, use, and maintain monetary/money resources.
What is financial/economic abuse?
An evolutionary-adapted response that may involve rapid breathing, feeling "hot", pacing, or sweating. This is the body's physiological reaction to a stressor (e.g., conflict with a partner).
What is the "Fight-or-Flight" Response?
Using humiliation, having low frustration tolerance, acting rudely, doing frequent interruptions, using "you" statements, or using an overbearing voice are all examples of this communication style.
What is Aggressive Communication?
The perpetuating cycle of children who witness domestic violence reenacting the same behavior(s) later in life.
What are the intergenerational effects of domestic violence or what is "monkey see monkey do"?
One of the four horsemen of the relationship apocalypse. It involves avoiding, emotionally withdrawing, shutting down, or going silent during important discussions.
What is Stonewalling?
A type of abuse involving tactics to control someone’s way of thinking or behaving through "gaslighting", coercion, blackmail, or manipulation.
What is mental/psychological abuse?
A specific helpful technique you can use when deciding how to act, especially when it involves a decision of major consequence. It helps you think of your decision both in the short-term and long-term. It involves a diagram.
What is the Four-Square Technique?
A communication style in which individuals appear fine on the surface but are really acting out anger in a subtle, indirect, or behind-the-scenes way.
What is passive-aggressive communication?
The underlying dynamics of all types of abuse.
What is Power AND Control.
A Greek-rooted word that translates to "without words for feelings". A technical term for the way many people, especially men, have difficulty identifying, distinguishing, and expressing their own emotions or feelings.
What is Alexithymia?