Terms in this set (11) Domestic Violence. Is a term for the behaviors abusers use to gain and maintain control over their victims.

Domestic Violence is about Power & Control. It’s About Power and Control. Abusers (batterers) tend to take their anger out on their intimate partner but it’s not really about anger. Anger therefore is a tool that an abuser will use to gain and maintain control.

Terms in this set (32)

• State. At what level are laws about IPV established?
• Violence against women act. What federal act helped to establish harsher accountability standards for perpetrators of IPV?
• Financial abuse.
• Coercive control.
• Women.
• 18-29.
• Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
• Socioeconomic status.

Blame others for their own feelings and are very manipulative. An abusive person will often say “you make me mad”, “you’re hurting me by not doing what I ask”, or “I can’t help being angry”. Often are alcohol or drug abusers. May have a family history of violence.

This usually involves the word “always.” You’re always late, wrong, screwing up, disagreeable, and so on. Basically, they say you’re not a good person. Yelling. Yelling, screaming, and swearing are meant to intimidate and make you feel small and inconsequential.

Psychological/Emotional Abuse Focuses on the mental aspect of abuse such as threats, abandonment, intimidation, humiliation, deprivation of physical or emotional contact and cultural needs.

Maltreatment as a younger child can have longitudinal negative effects on brain development during adolescence. Adolescents with a history of childhood maltreatment can have decreased levels of growth in the hippocampus and amygdala compared to nonmaltreated adolescents (Whittle et al., 2013).

Neglect changes childhood. Children who’ve been neglected might experience short-term and long-term effects. difficulty with relationships later in life, including with their own children. a higher chance of having mental health problems, including depression.

The list of problems that stem from neglect reads like the index of the DSM: poor impulse control, social withdrawal, problems with coping and regulating emotions, low self-esteem, pathological behaviors such as tics, tantrums, stealing and self-punishment, poor intellectual functioning and low academic achievement.

Signs that a child may be experiencing physical abuse include:

1. unexplained bruises, cuts, burns or welts on their body.
2. hypervigilance (always looking out for danger) and difficulty trusting people.
3. aggressive behaviour or trying to dominate and control other people.

Signs of neglect may include:

• Always looking dirty.
• Being left alone or in the care of other young children.
• Eating more than usual at a meal or saving food for later.
• Missing a lot of school.
• Poor weight gain and growth.
• Doesn’t get medical, dental, or mental health care (medical neglect)

Once abandonment has been proven, the parental rights of the parent who abandoned the child can be terminated. State laws governing abandonment give the court a way to allow the adoption proceeding to go forward while complying with notice and consent requirements.

‘Foundling’ is an historic term applied to children, usually babies, that have been abandoned by parents and discovered and cared for by others. Abandoned children were not unusual in the eighteenth century when the Foundling Hospital was established.