Information about Domestic Violence

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Domestic Violence

News Articles

Domestic abuse: Killers 'follow eight-stage pattern', study says - BBC News, August 2019.

About 30,000 women across the world were killed by current or former partners in 2017.  Dr Monckton Smith said women account for more than 80% of victims killed by their partners - and most of the time, the partner is male.

The eight steps she discovered in almost all of the 372 killings she studied were:

1.  A pre-relationship history of stalking or abuse by the perpetrator
2.  The romance developing quickly into a serious relationship
3.  The relationship becoming dominated by coercive control
4.  A trigger to threaten the perpetrator's control - for example, the relationship ends or the perpetrator gets into financial difficulty
5.  Escalation - an increase in the intensity or frequency of the partner's control tactics, such as by stalking or threatening suicide
6.  The perpetrator has a change in thinking - choosing to move on, either through revenge or by homicide
7.  Planning - the perpetrator might buy weapons or seek opportunities to get the victim alone
8.  Homicide - the perpetrator kills his or her partner, and possibly hurts others such as the victim's children

30 Shocking Domestic Violence Statistics That Remind Us It's An Epidemic, Huffington Post, Dec 2017

Why We Don't Recommend Couples Counseling for Abusive Relationships. The [US] National Domestic Violence Hotline, February, 2018.

Domestic Violence Awareness Hasn't Caught Up With #MeToo. Here's Why. New York Times Article, Oct 16, 2018.

Journal Articles

Fernández-Fillol, C., Pitsiakou, C., Perez-Garcia, M., Teva, I., & Hidalgo-Ruzzante, N. (2021). Complex PTSD in survivors of intimate partner violence: Risk factors related to symptoms and diagnoses. European journal of psychotraumatology, 12(1), 2003616. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.2003616

In 2018, the World Health Organization proposed a new diagnosis entitled Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in the ICD-11. It is a diagnosis that encompasses the classic symptoms of PTSD, along with symptoms of disturbances in self-organization (DSO). Although this disorder has been studied in several countries and populations, research on the population of women survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) is scarce. The findings of this study indicated that CPTSD was twice as prevalent as PTSD within the sample. Moreover, maladaptive emotion regulation strategy as expressive suppression was the main variable related to experiencing CPTSD, in contrast to PTSD. These findings may have important implications for the design of specific treatments aimed at women survivors of IPV, who also suffer CPTSD.

Kozlowska, W. (2020). A thematic analysis of practitioners' understanding of domestic abuse in terms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex-PTSD (C-PTSD).  Counselling &  Psychotherapy Research, 20(2).  https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12272

There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that domestic abuse (DA) should be conceptualised within the complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) model. Recently, in the draft of the International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), C-PTSD was included as a separate criterion in which DA is incorporated (ICD-11, WHO, 2018). In this study, a thematic analysis was used to explore to what extent practitioners working with DA survivors are familiar with PTSD and C-PTSD. Research into such a prevalent and detrimental problem as DA is important to understand whether the development of theoretical knowledge about DA and C-PTSD is addressed in practice. The findings demonstrate limited practitioner understanding of DA in terms of C-PTSD, which seems to impact not only the effectiveness of treatment plans with DA survivors, but also counsellors' own psychological and physical states. It is also indicated that DA can be conceptualised within the C-PTSD model that corresponds with previous literature indicating the complex nature of DA. The overall results of the current research acknowledge that DA sectors should not be neglected and better funding and effective psychoeducation in this field are needed.

Books

Domestic Violence Books from DomesticShelters.org

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Intimate Terrorism: The Dark Threat of Coercive Control from SBS Insight in Australia

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TW - May be triggering for some.

Woman's Children Remember the Night Their Dad Killed Her - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CSvAHANs70.

Jennifer Magnano was killed by her husband Scott Magnano in 2007 at their Connecticut home after years of physical and emotional abuse, including coercive control. The murder was witnessed by two of her three children. Now they're all fighting to get a law titled Jennifer's Law passed in her name. The law seeks to include coercive control in the definition of abuse in the court system in order to protect women and children.

The coercive control law was passed in Jun 2021.

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Good resource I saw on Twitter today - How to be an Ally to a Loved One Experiencing Domestic Violence: A Guide for Family and Friends - https://f.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/5507857/Ally%20Guide/A4_AllyDoc_web82520.pdf

Published by The Safe & Together Institute - https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/

"A global leader in domestic violence-informed training and systems change. Our mission: Create a global network of professionals, organizations and communities working together to create domestic violence-informed child welfare and child-serving systems. We work everyday to change systems so they can be better allies to adult and child domestic violence survivors."