Domestic Abuse

Question 1

Intimate Partner Violence

Answer 1

Occurs between 2 people in a close relationship, can include current or former dating partners or spouses

Question 2

Domestic violence

Answer 2

behaviors used by one person in a family relationship to control another; DV includes married or not married, heterosexual, gay, lesbian,

Question 3

Family violence

Answer 3

Violence between generations of relatives or pseudo relatives

Question 4

First womens shelter

Answer 4

England, 1791

Question 5

Single most common cause of injury in dating relationships?

Answer 5

Battering

Question 6

10-30% of wives battered by husbands

Answer 6

ok

Question 7

Examples of Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence

Answer 7

• name calling
• Put Downs
• Isolation (No job, no contact with family)
• Witholding money
• Dependence
• Sexual Assault
• Stalking
• Intimidation

Question 8

How much pressure is needed to close off an airway

Answer 8

30 pounds

Question 9

12-15 pounds on the carotids for 10 seconds

Answer 9

ok

Question 10

Strangulation lethality

Answer 10

10 seconds- pass out
20- should bounce back
30- need to be revived
50- point of no return
4 minutes- brain death

Question 11

Incidence of battering increases during pregnancy

Answer 11

ok

Question 12

Reporters of assault more likely to deliver a low birth wt child

Answer 12

ok

Question 13

Toxic stress-

Answer 13

Intense adverse experiences sustained over long periods of time- weeks, even years

Examples of toxic stress on children = child mistreatment, abuse, neglect, exposure to intimate partner or domestic violence.

Question 14

ACE score = Adverse childhood experience score. 1 point is given for each category of abuse

Answer 14

ok….looks at Abuse, Neglect, and Household Dysfunction

Question 15

Exposure to physical abuse, sexual abuse, and IPV in childhood resulted in women being 3.5x more likely to report IPV victimization

Answer 15

ok

Question 16

Women who have been victimized by an intimate partner and children who were raised in violent households are more likely to experience

Answer 16

• frequent headaches, GI problems, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances

Question 17

IPV linked to

Answer 17

obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, sexual behavior, mental health issue, injury and violence

Question 18

78% of domestic violence perpetraitors in Memphis were

Answer 18

Male

Question 19

DO NOT BLAME THE VICTIM

Answer 19

EVER

Question 20

DO Not advise that the victim leave the abuser since this is the primary reason that victims are killed

Answer 20

ok

Question 21

As the number of ACE increases, the number of co-occuring health conditions increases

Answer 21

Brain changes are related either to trauma or an increase in inflammatory hormones that are designed to protect us, but constant inflammation results in death.