Week 12

Question 1

Obsssesion

Answer 1

Recurrent and persistent thought, urges, or impulses that are experienced, at some during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted

Question 2

Stalking

Answer 2

A pattern of repeated contact with a person that is unwanted and causes the person to reasonably fear for their safety of people known to them

Question 3

Section 264

Answer 3

Repeatedly follow another person from place to place

Repeatedly communicate with, directly or indirectly the other person

Beset or watch a place where the other person is living or working

Engage in threatening conduct directed at the other person or family members

Question 4

Prevalence Rates

Answer 4

Men are typically the stalkers and women are the victims

Question 5

Characteristics of Stalkers

Answer 5

Most are male

Former intimate partners

Interpersonal and mental health difficulties

Question 6

Victims of Stalking

Answer 6

Women

Question 7

Simple Obsessional Stalker

Answer 7

Prior relationship between victim and offender

Male perpetrators, Female victims

Insecure

Question 8

Love Obsessional Stalker

Answer 8

No prior intimate relationship with victim

Eg. Casual acquaintance

Question 9

Erotomanic Stalker

Answer 9

Erotomania

Delusions belief that there is an existing relationship with the victim

Question 10

Intimate Partner Violence

Answer 10

Acts of physical, psychological, and/or sexual violence and other forms of controlling behaviour abasing a current or former intimate partner

Question 11

Battered Women Syndrome

Answer 11

The collection of psychological responses experiences by female victims of persistent IPV, including depression, low helplessness, and powerless

Question 12

Learned Helplessness

Answer 12

A psychological condition in which an individual learns to accept their current conditions or situation a unchangeable regardless of their actions

Question 13

Cycle of abuse theory

Answer 13

Abusive relationships exhibit a predictable cycle of behavioural characteristics in which the abusive partner becomes increasingly tense, irritable, angry, and psychologically abusive

Question 14

Dysphoric/Borderline Assaulter

Answer 14

Engages in moderate to serious form of ilv

Dysphoria

Borderline personality Disorder

Question 15

Family-only assaulter

Answer 15

Abusive behaviour in the household
No generalized antisocial behaviour
Poor coping communication skills

Question 16

Generally violent/antisocial assaulter

Answer 16

Frequent violent in intimate relationships

Question 17

Instigators

Answer 17

Events or stimuli in the environment that trigger learned behaviours

Question 18

Aversive Instigators

Answer 18

Cues in the environment that produce specific negative emotional responses that may trigger IPV

Rejection

Question 19

Incentive instigators

Answer 19

Cues in the environment that act as perceived rewards for abusive behaviour

Maintenance of control

Question 20

Regulators

Answer 20

Various from of punishment that potentially inhibit PIV if present or enacted

social disapproval