Health Teen Power and Control Wheel

Question 1

Threatening to expose someone’s weakness or spread rumors.

2. Telling malicious lies about an individual to peer groups

Answer 1

Peer Pressure(teen power and control wheel)

Question 2

Controlling what another does, who he/she sees, and talks to, what he/she reads, where he/she goes

2. limiting outside involvement
3. using jealousy to justify actions

Answer 2

Isolation/exclusion(teen power and control wheel)

Question 3

Manipulating or making threats to get sex

2. getting her pregnant
3. Threatening to take the children away
4. using jealousy to justify actions

Answer 3

Sexual coercion(teen power and control wheel)

Question 4

Making and/or carrying out threats to do something to hurt another

2. threatening to leave, to commit suicide, to report him/her to the police
3. making him/her drop charges.
4. making him/her do illegal things

Answer 4

Threats (teen power and control wheel)

Question 5

Making light of the abuse and not taking concerns about it seriously 2. saying the abuse didn’t happen 3. shifting responsibility for abusive behavior 4. saying he/she caused it

Answer 5

Minimize/Deny/Blame teen power and control wheel)

Question 6

Making someone afraid by using looks, actions, gesture 2. smashing things

3. destroying property
4. abusing pets
5. displaying weapons

Answer 6

Intimidation (teen power and control wheel)

Question 7

Treating her like a servant

2. making all the decisions; acting like the master
3. acting like the “master of the castle”
4. being the one to define men’s and women’s roles

Answer 7

Using Social Status (teen power and control wheel)

Question 8

Putting him/her down

2. making him/her feel bad about him/herself
3. name calling
4. making him/ her think he/she’s crazy
5. playing mind games
6. humiliating him/her.
7. making him/her feel guilty

Answer 8

Anger/Emotional Abuse (teen power and control wheel)