Battered Woman Syndrome
1. Explain Walker’s criteria for battered woman syndrome and briefly explain the battering cycle proposed by walker.
Walkers come up with the term “battered woman Syndrome” as a way of describing IPV (intimate partner violence) and the consequences that it brings. IPV is a conduct that involves any form of physical, psychological and sexual abuse perpetrated by partners in the relationship, it can be in the marriage or dating couples. This term involves a details studies that fallows the history and policies that concentrate on the beginning of aggressive attitudes performed by couples against woman’s. Walkers explain that indeed any woman at certain point in her life may be in abusive situation and become a victim, but she explains that the remaining on this abusive relationship is characterized as “battered woman syndrome (Wobert-Burgess, Regehr, & Roberts, 2013).
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Jekyll/Mr. Hyde personality (Walker, L.A. 1989, p.697), the effort to pretend that is just a momentary crisis and the individual will change on certain point wont vanish instate the abuse will increase as long they continue in that environment.
2. Explain the consequences of legally classifying the exposure of children to inter-parental violence as a form of child abuse.
Many children who are expose to inter-parental conflict and violence, are at risk to develop extreme low self-esteem, and many will indeed follow the same steeps and enter to some abusive relationships as adults, or become abusers themselves. The implications that bring the direct contact with IPV affect the relationship that children’s will have with their parent on the future causing a trauma especially when the child is witness of physical abuse between the parents (Henning, et al.
Walkers come up with the term “battered woman Syndrome” as a way of describing IPV (intimate partner violence) and the consequences that it brings. IPV is a conduct that involves any form of physical, psychological and sexual abuse perpetrated by partners in the relationship, it can be in the marriage or dating couples. This term involves a details studies that fallows the history and policies that concentrate on the beginning of aggressive attitudes performed by couples against woman’s. Walkers explain that indeed any woman at certain point in her life may be in abusive situation and become a victim, but she explains that the remaining on this abusive relationship is characterized as “battered woman syndrome (Wobert-Burgess, Regehr, & Roberts, 2013).
The extension of the …show more content…
Jekyll/Mr. Hyde personality (Walker, L.A. 1989, p.697), the effort to pretend that is just a momentary crisis and the individual will change on certain point wont vanish instate the abuse will increase as long they continue in that environment.
2. Explain the consequences of legally classifying the exposure of children to inter-parental violence as a form of child abuse.
Many children who are expose to inter-parental conflict and violence, are at risk to develop extreme low self-esteem, and many will indeed follow the same steeps and enter to some abusive relationships as adults, or become abusers themselves. The implications that bring the direct contact with IPV affect the relationship that children’s will have with their parent on the future causing a trauma especially when the child is witness of physical abuse between the parents (Henning, et al.