Domestic Abuse Flashcards
1
Q
Name as many support organisations available to victims of domestic abuse?
A
- social services
- local refuge
- shelter (provides emergency line to refuges)
- woman’s aid
- the Samaritans
- karma nirvana (offers support to victims of forces marriage and honour based violence)
- housing associations
- RSPCA (animals are often used as blackmail or further distress to the victim)
2
Q
Within donestic abuse, What is classed as emotional abuse?
A
- putting her down
- making her feel bad about herself
- calling her names
- making her think she’s crazy
- playing mind games
- humiliating her
- making her feel guilty
3
Q
In relation to domestic abuse, What is “using isolation”
A
- controlling what she does
- controlling who she sees and talks to
- limiting her outside involvement
- using jealousy to justify actions
4
Q
Within domestic abuse, What is “minimising, denying and blaming”?
A
- making light of abuse and not taking her concerns about is seriously
- saying the abuse didn’t happen
- shifting responsibility for abusive behaviour
- saying she caused it
5
Q
Within domestic abuse, How might an abuser use children?
A
- making her feel guilty about the children
- using the children to relay messages
- threatening to take the children away
6
Q
In relation to do
Estic abuse, How might the abuser use male privilege?
A
- treating her like a servant
- making all the big decisions
- acting like “the master of the castle”
- being the one to define men’s and woman’s roles
7
Q
In relation to domestic abuse, What is using economic abuse?
A
- preventing her from getting or keeping a job
- making her ask for money
- giving her an allowance
- taking her money
- not letting her know about or having access to family income
8
Q
In relation to domestic abuse, What is using coercion and threats?
A
- making and carrying out threats to hurt her
- threatening to leave her, to commit suicide, to report her to welfare
- making her drop charges
- making her do illegal things
9
Q
Why might someone stay in an abusive relationship?
A
- religious belief
- shame
- fear of what might happen after
- don’t know where they will live
- fear for the children
- fear that no one will help
- lack of knowledge of the support thy can get
- guilt
- scared of loosing friends
- may feel that it what marriage is
10
Q
You attend a domestic and a child is present, what are the minimum recording requirements?
A
- name, including other family names and previously used names
- date of birth
- sex
- normal address
- GP name and surgery
- primary career or care arrangements for children
- school
- full details of children circumstances witnessed by officer
- anything said by the child
- full details of other children present at the address
