Coercive Control
This term refers to a pattern of behaviors used to dominate and restrict a partner’s independence.
What is coercive control?
This model visually represents tactics used to maintain dominance in abusive relationships.
What is the Duluth Model (Power and Control Wheel)?
This type of abuse damages a person’s self-worth without leaving physical marks.
What is emotional abuse?
This form of abuse involves controlling a partner’s access to money.
What is financial abuse?
The central theme connecting all forms of abuse in this module.
What is power and control?
This tactic makes a victim question their own memory or perception of reality.
What is gaslighting?
On the wheel, physical and sexual violence form this part, reinforcing all other tactics.
What is the outer ring?
These are emotional abuse tactics.
What is constant criticism, name-calling, and humiliation.
Preventing a partner from working creates this for the abuser.
What is economic dependency?
Using children to threaten or manipulate a partner falls under this tactic on the wheel.
What is using children?
Coercive control is different from a single argument because it involves this over time.
What is a repeated pattern of domination?
This tactic includes preventing a partner from seeing friends or family.
What is isolation?
Long-term emotional abuse can lead to these mental health outcomes.
What are anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem?
Building debt in a partner’s name without consent is an example of this.
What is financial exploitation?
Abuse is best described as a loss of control or a deliberate strategy?
What is a deliberate strategy?
This is when a partner constantly monitors phone/location/social media activity through tracking apps or passwords.
What is tech abuse?
This section of the wheel involves shifting responsibility and saying the abuse “wasn’t that bad.”
What is minimizing, denying, and blaming?
This type of emotional abuse involves gaslighting.
What is psychological abuse?
Financial abuse makes it difficult for survivors to do this.
What is leave the relationship?
Feeling constantly fearful of upsetting a partner is a sign of this dynamic.
What is coercive control?
The ultimate goal of coercive control is not conflict resolution but this.
What is power and entrapment?
This concept on the wheel refers to using societal norms to justify dominance in the household.
What is male privilege?
Needing constant praise, thinking they deserve special treatment, or being very jealous are traits of this.
What is narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)?
This PSA campaign highlighted the hidden role of economic control in domestic violence.
What is the Purple Purse Campaign (Allstate Foundation)?
Non-physical abuse is dangerous because it can escalate into this.
What is physical violence?