IPV Flashcards
What the victim needs from provider
- Respect the patient’s POV
- Be a source of support and resources
- Trust that patients/clients make informed decisions
- Understand that leaving is a process of change
Who Abuses Women
- 25% of women reported Hx of IPV
- Male were abusers 93% of the time
Who Abuses Men
- 8% of men reported Hx of abuse
- Male was abuser 86% of the time
Who is in Greatest Need
- More women (1 in 4) that men report
- Women are more likely than men to be murdered
- Higher rates in African-American women (1 in 3)
- Highest in Indian/Alaskan Native women and men
- Lowest reporting from Asian/Pacific Islander
Consequences of IPV
- Physical injury and illness
- Psychological symptoms & chronic Dz
- Economic costs
- Death
Consequences to children
- Mistrust
- Inability to learn
- Fear of expression
- Crave/need
- Cranky, crabby
- Fear of safety
Intimate Partner Violence
- Coercive control, usually occurring over time, exhibited through:
- Physical violence
- Sexual violence
- Threats of physical or sexual violence
- Psychological or emotional abuse
- “Any violence b/n intimates, including all adult intimate relationships b/n people regardless of sexual preference, marital status, or age.”
- WHO: Behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual, or psychological harm including acts of physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse, and controlling behaviors by current and former partners/spouses
Physical Violence
Intentional use of force, but not limited to :
* Slapping, pushing, shaking, biting, using a weapon, strangulation, scratching, choking, burning, hitting
Emotional/Psychological Abuse
- Intentional infliction of anguish, pain, or distress designed to control the victim:
- Verbal assaults, Insults, Threats, Frightening intimidation, humiliation, harassment.
Ways of Abusing Emotionally in IPV
- Isolating and restricting activity
- Attack self esteem through humiliation and degrading comments
- Withdraw in hostile ways
- Destroy (her) personal property
- Threaten harm
Emotional Abuse
- Less research for emotional vs. physical abuse, but:
- Predicts occurrence of physical abuse
- Occurs in the absence of physical abuse
- Tends to co-occur with physical abuse
- Often perceived by victim as worse than physical abuse
Things that Distinguish IPV From Other Violence
- People have an intimate knowledge of one another
- Perpetrator has ongoing access to victim
- Secret nature of problem, generally happening outside of public view
- Perpetrators ability to avoid being caught
- Perpetrators ability to influence consequences if caught
Definition: Sexual Violence
WHO:
- Any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic or otherwise directed against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting including but not limited to home and work
Definition: Rape
WHO:
- Physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration of the vulva or anus with a penis, other body part, or object
- Definition varies b/n countries
Types of abusers
- Cycliclally emotional or volatile perpetrators
- Over-controlling perpetrators
- Psychopathic perpetrators
