Types of Abuse
This type of abuse involves hitting, kicking, or causing bodily harm.
What is physical abuse?
The first stage of the cycle of abuse, when ____ begins to grow.
What is trigger?
Respecting boundaries, communicating honestly, and supporting each other are signs of this.
What is a healthy relationship?
Carl jumps his enemy from school. He moves on with his day and thinks to himself ‘I’m not going to get caught.” Which part of the abuse cycle is Carl in?
DENIAL
This type involves using insults, threats, or humiliation to hurt someone emotionally.
What is emotional abuse?
When is it too late to stop yourself from being abusive?
Constant jealousy, checking someone's phone without permission, or isolating them from friends are signs of this.
What is an unhealthy or abusive relationship?
Daniel finds out his girlfriend cheated on him. He is so flooded by emotion that he feels like he’s going to explode. Which part of the abuse cycle is Daneil in?
What is overwhelmed?
When someone repeatedly pressures, manipulates, or controls another person online, it's this kind of abuse.
What is digital abuse?
After the incident, the abuser may apologize or promise change in this stage.
What is the guilt/promising phase?
This essential skill involves listening and expressing feelings clearly without blaming.
What is healthy communication?
Megan and her mom get into a fight. Megan smacks her mom in the face. Megan apologizes profusely and exclaims “I promise I won’t ever do it again!” What stage of the abuse cycle is Megan in?
What is promising?
This form of abuse happens when someone controls money, prevents another person from working, or withholds financial resources.
What is financial abuse?
This part of the cycle involves avoiding accountability.
What is the denial?
When each person in a relationship can make their own choices, it shows this key principle.
What is independence or autonomy?
Megan smacks her mom. What stage of the abuse cycle is Megan in?
What is abuse?
When someone uses their power to force, pressure, or guilt another person into sexual activity, it’s this type of abuse.
What is sexual abuse?
Understanding this cycle is important because it shows how abuse is not a one-time act but this repeated pattern.
What is abuse cycle?
Manipulating or gaslighting someone into doing something they do not want to do.
What is unhealthy?
Megan and her mom get into a fight. Megan’s mom is screaming at her so loud that Megan’s ears are ringing. Megan looks around to see if anyone is nearby, see’s that no one is around, and chooses to smack her mom. Which stage of the abuse cycle is Megan in?
What is deciding?