Domestic Violence: Applying Couple Therapy to an Age-Old Issue Peggy Genoway Brandman University Psychology 561 Prepared for Dr. Wheldon October 15‚ 2014 Domestic violence is an age old dilemma which has only begun to be seriously addressed and treated in the field of psychotherapy. A knowledge of the history of such issues can assist in the understanding of how violence has evolved into its present state‚ and also expands the understanding of legal involvement. The preponderance of
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of posttraumatic stress on child witnesses to domestic violence. The scholarly article found in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry was investigated to aid in this inquiry. The article hypothesized that children witnessing domestic violence are predisposed to the same level of posttraumatic stress simultaneous to if they were the direct victims of physical abuse or sexual abuse. A sample of 35 children‚ 20 whom have witnessed domestic violence and 15 who had not‚ were assessed. The children
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Domestic Violence Even without an exact count of the numbers of victims‚ it easily can be said that family violence affects millions of women‚ men and children across the United States and around the world. The term domestic violence is not a simple problem related only for the individuals experiencing it but it is a global crisis affecting all us. The nature of domestic violence primarily depends over several factor such as culture‚ religion‚ society‚ economy and different political contexts. However
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The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children Trudy Root Kaplan University CM107-11 Children are negatively impacted by the surrounding of domestic violence in multiple ways‚ in which need to be identified. The audience that needs to be aware of domestic abuse’s effects on children is adults that care for children; such as pediatricians‚ teachers‚ counselors‚ and parents. The issue that needs to be addressed is the negative effects on children involved in a domestic violence situation. Many
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There are several types of domestic violence treatment programs for the victims and the perpetrators. These programs are educational and psychological treatments‚ community-based interventions‚ and criminal justice interventions. Educational and psychological treatments was once based on the feminist model called Duluth Model. This model was based on the fact that domestic violence was a way to control women. The Duluth Model is considered to be confrontational to the perpetrators power over their
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Domestic violence has become America ’s most common crime and tragically its least reported. The percentages are overwhelming‚ and the statistics can be "hard to swallow‚" but it is important to remember that behind each statistic is face with a name. The impact of violence is far reaching. How does a mother survive‚ not just the blows to her body‚ but the terror and fear written on her child ’s heart and reflected in her child ’s eyes?Domestic violence is defined as abusive behavior in any relationship
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Domestic Violence is fundamentally different in LGBT relationships for numerous reasons. There are many causal and contributory factors that make domestic violence in the LGBT community uniquely different than male-to-female or female-to-male battering. To understand these differences one must recognize domestic violence beyond the stereotypical heterosexual manifestation. According to A Professional Guide to Understanding Gay and Lesbian Domestic Violence‚ same-sex battering mirrors heterosexual
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Tastsoglou‚ E. (2016). Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state. Current Sociology‚ 64(4)‚ 568. doi: 10.1177/0011392116639221 In this article‚ the authors have highlighted how activists and feminist sociologists focus on the violence against women linking it to the cultural and structural elements which subordinate women‚ primarily intersecting limited rights and inequalities. Mobilization by the Anti-Violence and Battered Women’s Movements
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TO WHAT EXTENT DOES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFFECT THE PHYSCOLOGICAL BEING OF AN INDIVIDUAL The first article is just some statistics that I found interesting ; the second and third article however is more relevant to my topic. I like the conversation in article 3 especially when the abused husband said he felt like “an insect below her feet” . Domestic violence deaths rise By ANDRE BAGOO Wednesday‚ November 11 2009 (TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) DEATHS from cases of domestic violence have quadrupled over
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2009 Introduction The office of domestic violence against women defines domestic violence as pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence does not just affect the immediate victim but is a widespread problem in the United States. Eighthly five percent of domestic violence victims are women (Domestic Violence Facts‚ 2007). Results of violence can be health care professionals in
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