Module 6.7 Domestic Violence

Question 1

What is domestic violence?

Answer 1

Any assault, battery, sexual assault, stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any other criminal offense that results in physical injury or death of one family or household member by another who is or was residing in the residence

Question 2

What are the controlling behaviors?

Answer 2

Physical, sexual, and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion

Question 3

Domestic violence is about the abuser having…

Answer 3

Power and control

Question 4

What are the 5 most vulnerable groups for dv?

Answer 4

• Immigrant and refugees
• Persons with disabilities
• Older battered women
• Battered women living in rural communities
• LGBTQ

Question 5

What is batterer behaviors?

Answer 5

• Coercion and threats
• Intimidation
• Use of emotional abuse
• Use of isolation
• Minimizing, denying and blaming
• Using children against the adult victim
• Using male privilege
• Economic abuse

Question 6

How is domestic violence related to child abuse?

Answer 6

• Striking a child who tries to intervene
• Forcing a child to witness or participate in beatings
• Threatening to beat a child who discloses
• Hitting a child with objects intended to strike the victim

Question 7

How is domestic violence related to child neglect?

Answer 7

• Physical neglect: when the victim is physically or mentally injured to the extend that is unable to care for the child.
• Abandonment: victim may flee the home to escape abuse leaving child home alone.
• Medical neglect: batterer doesn’t allow victim to take child for medical care
• Inadequate supervision: batterer forces victim to go with him leaving child at home alone
• Failure to protect: victims so frightened of batterer she’s unable to intervene to protect the child

Question 8

What are some signs that indicate high risk of fatality?

Answer 8

• Use or threatened to use a weapon
• Threaten to kill or injure himself or the victim
• Tried to choke the victim
• Access to weapons

Question 9

When is the most lethal for a victim in domestic violence?

Answer 9

When the victim has left the batterer

Question 10

What are some resources offered to domestic violence victims or batterer?

Answer 10

Injunctions and interventions such as:

• Shelters
• Parenting classes focusing on the impact of domestic violence
• Support programs for abused victims
• Batterer Intervention Program (BIP)