Lingo Lowdown
This is a pattern of behaviour in which one person in an intimate relationship seeks to establish and maintain power and control over the other person through various means; e.g., physical, emotional, financial.
What is intimate partner or domestic violence?
This list includes a partner who comes on too strong/too quickly, a partner who displays obsessive behaviour/unpredictable behaviour, and extreme ups and downs in the relationship.
What are the warning signs of domestic violence?
Gender inequality, patriarchal cultural messages, the belief that men have the right to control women and other gender minorities, colonial systems and laws, gender norms and stereotypes, and unequal power relations in our society are included in this list.
What causes gender-based violence?
The crown makes this decision, often in consultation with police. This may happen with/without a survivor’s consent.
What is pressing criminal charges?
This is the number one reason why people stay in an abusive relationship.
What is fear?
The definition for this term includes any act of violence based on someone's gender, gender expression, gender identity, or perceived gender.
What is gender-based violence?
The answer for this question varies, but averages at around 7 times.
What is the number of attempts it takes to leave an abusive partner?
Women 15-24, Indigenous women, newcomer women, women with a disability, and transgender women are included in this group.
Who is at highest risk for DV?
This list includes Physical Assault, Sexual Assault, Criminal Harassment (stalking), Trespassing, Theft/Forgery/Fraud, Criminal Negligence, and several types of Cyberviolence.
What are the types of criminal charges associated with DV?
This act of an abuser removes the natural and professional supports in an individual's life, making it harder to leave.
What is isolation?
This list includes physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, financial, and spiritual.
What are the types of Domestic Violence?
This pattern of behaviour may include assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse and is used to manipulate, harm, punish, or frighten their victim.
What is coercive control?
Attachment Issues, abnormal growth/development, issues with learning and speech, and mental health concerns are included in this list.
What are the impacts of DV on children?
This is a court order that prevents an abusive individual from contacting victims and their families, and prevent them from entering a victim’s home, work, school or other locations.
What is an Emergency Protection Order (EPO)?
This feeling describes a survivor’s sense that they have done something wrong, that they deserved the abuse, or that experiencing abuse is a sign of weakness.
What is shame?
This concept includes phases identified by Dr. Lenore Walker in the 70's: Tension, Incident, Reconciliation, and Calm.
What is the Cycle of Abuse?
This is a covert type of emotional abuse where the bully or abuser misleads the target and attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim's mind.
What is gaslighting?
Poverty, homelessness, physical injury, acute and chronic health conditions, mental strain, death are included in this list.
What are the impacts of DV on the individual/family?
This is an Alberta law that that allows individuals concerned about domestic violence risk to request non-specific information from police on whether their partner may be a safety risk, based on previous domestic violence related charges.
What is Clare’s Law?
This is caused by survivors of domestic violence internalizing the negative messages given by their abusers. This can also occur in children who witness abuse.
What is low self-esteem?
Muscle tension, anxiety, shame, anger, substance use, dissociation, intrusive thoughts, value shifts are all symptoms of this disorder commonly associated with surviving DV.
What is PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
The risk for this devastating outcome of domestic violence is highest when a woman is leaving their abusive partner.
What is femicide/homicide?
Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Respect are included in this approach valued and used by Discovery House.
What is Trauma Informed Care?
This Alberta legislation protects abused family members of all ages, whether they live together or apart, including: couples who are married/common-law/separated or divorced (with children or not), parents who have not resided together, birth/adopted/foster/step-children, and adults who live together and one person has legal care and custody over the other.
What is the Protection Against Family Violence Act?
Access to a gun, increase in violent incidents/intensity of the incidents, jealousy, threats, and choking are all risk factors for this.
What is femicide/homicide?