Types of Intimate Partner Violence
This type of IPV involves physical harm like hitting, slapping, or choking.
What is physical abuse?
A history of this, experienced in childhood, significantly increases the risk of perpetrating IPV as an adult.
What is childhood abuse or exposure to violence?
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What is Domestic Violence Awareness Month?
This theory suggests that individuals learn violent behaviors from observing family dynamics and media during their childhood.
What is Social Learning Theory?
This type of intervention focuses on stopping IPV before it occurs by addressing root causes.
What is primary prevention?
Threats, intimidation, and control of a partner’s social life fall under this category.
What is emotional or psychological abuse?
Failure to provide children with nourishment, shelter, healthcare and emotional support.
What is neglect?
This landmark federal law, passed in 1994, provides funding and legal protections for victims of IPV in the U.S.
What is the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)?
This theory suggests that violence is sustained through cultural norms that normalize aggression within intimate relationships.
What is Cultural Theory?
Legal tools like restraining orders are examples of this type of intervention.
What is a criminal justice intervention?
Forcing a partner into non-consensual sexual acts constitutes this form of IPV.
What is sexual abuse?
This personal trait, characterized by a positive self-view and coping skills, acts as a protective factor.
What is resilience?
The use of this tool by advocates often involves safety planning and connecting survivors to resources.
What is a hotline or crisis line?
IPV occurs when one partner’s need for power and control outweighs their regard for the other partner’s autonomy, according to this model.
What is the power and control wheel?
These programs aim to change the behavior of IPV perpetrators through therapy and education.
What are batterer intervention programs (BIPs)?
Economic exploitation, like restricting access to money or employment, is known as this.
What is financial abuse?
Violence within the home creates this type of stress disorder
What is post traumatic stress disorder
This controversial psychological condition suggests some victims may bond with their abusers as a survival mechanism.
What is Stockholm Syndrome?
This theory suggests that cultural norms around gender roles contribute to IPV.
What is feminist theory?
Teaching young people about healthy relationships is an example of this type of prevention effort.
What is education-based prevention?
Monitoring a partner’s activities through technology is a modern form of this type of IPV.
What is digital abuse?
Supportive relationships with friends and family offer this kind of protective factor against IPV.
What is a social support network?
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Who is Dr. Lad?
This is the term for the ongoing psychological manipulation that occurs in abusive relationships, often leading victims to doubt their own perceptions of reality.
What is Gaslighting?
Coordinated responses involving police, courts, and community organizations are part of this approach.
What is a multi-agency intervention or coordinated community response?