Personal Qualities
Owning up to your actions, behaviors, and their impact, without shifting blame onto others
Accountability
Using Coercion and Threats
The ability of an individual to understand the feelings or experiences of another, even if they do not feel the same at the time.
Empathy
A feeling of unhappiness and anger because someone has something or someone that you want
Jealously
What type of communication prioritizes the needs, wants, and feelings of others, even at their own expense. The person does not express their own needs, or does not stand up for them.
(HINT) This can lead to being taken advantage of.
Passive Communication
Willingness to seek help and readiness to engage in and adhere to a treatment plan
Motivation
Making her afraid by using looks, actions, gestures. Smashing things, destroying her property, displaying weapons.
Using Intimidation
What involves expressing regret for something you did, reflecting on your actions, taking responsibility for them, and making the necessary changes to improve things in the future.
Apologizing
A feeling of remorse for wrongdoing or harm caused in a specific instance
Guilt
What style of communication defines when a person expresses that only their own needs, wants, and feelings matter. The other person is bullied, and their needs are ignored.
Aggressive Communication
The capacity for understanding one's own or another's thoughts, feelings, motives, and problems, self-awareness
Insight
Controlling what she does, who she sees and talks to, what she reads, and where she goes. Limiting her to outside involvement, using jealousy to justify actions.
Using Isolation
Refusing to acknowledge or consider the victim's thoughts and feelings; dismissing them entirely as a form of control
Invalidating
A feeling of low self-worth as a result of having made mistakes or feeling remorse for certain choices
Shame
Listening, encourage sharing, striving to understand the speaker, and participating in the conversation rather than acting as an audience is what kind of listening?
Active Listening
The ability to bounce back especially after something difficult
Resilience
Putting her down, making her feel bad about herself, calling her names, making her think she is crazy, playing mind games, humiliating her, making her feel guilty.
Making light of a serious accusation or situation
Minimization
The feeling that makes someone want to hurt other people, to shout, etc.
Anger
A technique that can quickly help you become a better listener by repeating back what someone has just said to you, but in your own words. This shows that you didn’t just hear the other person, but you are trying to understand them
Reflection
The quality of honestly upholding and sticking to your values
Integrity
Making light of the abuse and not taking her concerns about it seriously, saying the abuse did not happen, shifting responsibility for abusive behavior, saying she caused it.
Minimizing, Denying, and Blaming
A form of manipulation that causes a person to doubt their own beliefs, sanity, or memory
Gaslighting
To feel resentful and unhappy because someone else possesses, or has achieved, what one wishes oneself to possess, or to have achieved
Envy
This type of communication highlights the importance of both peoples’ needs. During
this type of communication, a person stands up for their own needs, wants, and feelings, but also listens to and respects the needs of others. This style of communication is defined by confidence, and a willingness to compromise.
Assertive Communication