Exam 15: Stress and Coping With Intimate Partner Violence

Both women and men perpetrate IPV, but women constitute the majority of survivors and victims.

Economic, emotional, and psychological assets individuals may use to cope with IPV are represented as ______ in the ABC-X model.

If Lucy believes that her abusive husband's behaviors are wrong and unacceptable, she is more likely to take action. This is an example of ______.

Deanna, a woman who was physically abused by her husband for the first time after 5 years of marriage, perceives IPV differently from a woman she met in a domestic violence shelter, Harriet, a woman with three kids, who has been physically abused consistently for 5 years. What best explains why they view their IPV differently?

Discuss the process of leaving a relationship for reasons related to IPV.

Please identify the major forms of intimate partner violence. What are the effects on individuals, and how common are the specific forms of IPV?

Rob grew up in a home where his dad regularly pushed his mother around. Rob figured that she deserved what she got because she was incapable of doing anything right. Rob was confused when he hit his girlfriend, and she made a huge deal of it. This is most clearly an example of ______.

Marital rape became illegal across the United States during the second wave of feminism in the early 1970s.

Victims of IPV employ placating strategies to manage their lives. These strategies are not helpful in the long run.

The idea of an intergenerational transmission of violence speaks to findings that approximately 60% of abusive men were exposed to some form of violence during their youth (as opposed to 20% of nonabusive men).

Ramon and Steven have been a committed couple for 7 years. They have had a stormy relationship, and in fact, Steven physically beat Ramon, who needed to go to the emergency room. At the hospital, no one asked whether Ramon's partner harmed him, and it was assumed that the injuries were gang related. Ramon was discharged to Steven's care with no resources for IPV (and besides, there was no shelter that would accept Ramon anyway, since he is male). This is an example of ______.

______ theory contends that IPV victims actively engage in strategies to keep themselves safe in their relationships.

Women who spend at least one night in a shelter and are exposed to advocacy and counseling services report less repeated IPV.

In a study conducted with 25 abused mothers, researchers found that once the mothers shifted their perception from prioritizing ______ to prioritizing the safety of their children, they stopped efforts to keep the relationship together and focused on leaving safely instead.

The contextual model of family stress extends the ABC-X model by including a focus on ______.

Research has indicated that leaving an abusive relationship is ______.

Research suggests that most victims stay with their abusers until they are killed.

Who are referred to as "invisible victims" in the IPV literature?

Amy was in the emergency room with broken ribs from an argument she had with her husband, Tom. She explained to the doctor that this never happened before, and that Tom had always struggled with his anger. She said she knows that his anger gets the best of him and that she went too far insisting that they go to her mother's for the holiday. This is most clearly an example of ______.

Violent resistance is commonly known in legal circles as ______.