Question 1

A batterer's psychological factors have all but which one of the following characteristics?​

Accepted Answer

A) Possessiveness with rigid rules for everyone in the family 
B) ​Poor communication skills 
C) ​Unrealistic expectations of spouse 
D) Actively and aggressively confront personal problems 
A) Possessiveness with rigid rules for everyone in the family 
B) ​Poor communication skills 
C) ​Unrealistic expectations of spouse 
D) Actively and aggressively confront personal problems D

Question 2

Battering is a phenomenon closely associated with the lower socio-economic class.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

Alcohol abuse causes battering.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

With all of the publicity,laws,funding,and other resources that have been devoted to domestic violence,the problem still is endemic to our society.Why is that so?

Accepted Answer

There are several reasons why domestic v

Question 5

While gay and lesbian partners report domestic violence,statistically it is a good deal less than what heterosexual partners report.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which of the following should the crisis worker do when working with a battered person?​

Accepted Answer

A) Allow the person to talk through the pain and "freak out" if necessary 
B) ​The task model's action steps need to be pushed aggressively 
C) ​Confront the person's inability to leave the relationship 
D) Bring the abuser into the conversation to make sure that all sides are fairly heard. 
A) Allow the person to talk through the pain and "freak out" if necessary 
B) ​The task model's action steps need to be pushed aggressively 
C) ​Confront the person's inability to leave the relationship 
D) Bring the abuser into the conversation to make sure that all sides are fairly heard.

Question 7

Intake interviews for women who are battered are best done in a hospital or police station with the batterer present so the assaulted person can feel safe and secure in naming the perpetrator.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Individual experience,family systems,the community,peers,and society all are mediating variables for domestic violence under what theory?​

Accepted Answer

A) Sociobiology 
B) ​Nested Ecological 
C) ​System 
D) Exchange 
A) Sociobiology 
B) ​Nested Ecological 
C) ​System 
D) Exchange

Question 9

Children who live in a battering relationship:​

Accepted Answer

A) commonly rebel at the violence and become much more passive and as adults restrained. 
B) ​are often lost in the shuffle of the domestic violence. 
C) ​will become batterers if male and battered if female. 
D) generally have increased appropriate behavior and higher self-esteem immediately after leaving a battering relationship. 
A) commonly rebel at the violence and become much more passive and as adults restrained. 
B) ​are often lost in the shuffle of the domestic violence. 
C) ​will become batterers if male and battered if female. 
D) generally have increased appropriate behavior and higher self-esteem immediately after leaving a battering relationship.

Question 10

Conjugal terrorism as described by Morgan is akin to brainwashing and political terrorism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Most groups for batterers have all but which of the following as part of their curriculum?​

Accepted Answer

A) Restructuring irrational thinking 
B) ​Self-actualization 
C) ​Sex-role resocialization 
D) Stress reduction 
A) Restructuring irrational thinking 
B) ​Self-actualization 
C) ​Sex-role resocialization 
D) Stress reduction

Question 12

Crisis workers need to understand that battered persons:​

Accepted Answer

A) tend to see such incidents as isolated. 
B) ​have little will power and must be directly guided in making decisions. 
C) ​have few financial resources and will always need financial help. 
D) have such fragmented thinking that a great deal of assessment will need to be made before a behavioral plan is implemented. 
A) tend to see such incidents as isolated. 
B) ​have little will power and must be directly guided in making decisions. 
C) ​have few financial resources and will always need financial help. 
D) have such fragmented thinking that a great deal of assessment will need to be made before a behavioral plan is implemented.

Question 13

According to Walker,much of battering occurs on a random basis.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

A number of researchers have attempted to create typologies of batterers.Which of the following is not one of those types?​

Accepted Answer

A) Antisocial types that are narcissistic and care little for the consequences of their actions and are generally violent to everyone a great deal of the time.Extremely dangerous with no conscience. 
B) ​Estranged types who are socially isolated and violent only to family when rules are disobeyed.Very rigid militaristic bearing.Do not suffer insubordination from anyone considered inferior in rank to them which includes all of the family. 
C) ​Borderline types who come from dysfunctional families.May be very volatile and alternately depressed.Batter family members when they feel unloved or abandoned,which may be often.Low remorse and may batter outside the family. 
D) Family batterer.Typical batterer with poor communication skills and high dependency needs.Situational stressors spark an angry confrontation.Most representative of Walker's cycle. 
A) Antisocial types that are narcissistic and care little for the consequences of their actions and are generally violent to everyone a great deal of the time.Extremely dangerous with no conscience. 
B) ​Estranged types who are socially isolated and violent only to family when rules are disobeyed.Very rigid militaristic bearing.Do not suffer insubordination from anyone considered inferior in rank to them which includes all of the family. 
C) ​Borderline types who come from dysfunctional families.May be very volatile and alternately depressed.Batter family members when they feel unloved or abandoned,which may be often.Low remorse and may batter outside the family. 
D) Family batterer.Typical batterer with poor communication skills and high dependency needs.Situational stressors spark an angry confrontation.Most representative of Walker's cycle.

Question 15

When women finally decide to end the relationship and leave they will have:​

Accepted Answer

A) to find ways to support their abuser. 
B) ​grief reactions to the loss of their relationship dreams. 
C) ​achieved the promise of the relationship. 
D) an indifferent attitude toward the relationship. 
A) to find ways to support their abuser. 
B) ​grief reactions to the loss of their relationship dreams. 
C) ​achieved the promise of the relationship. 
D) an indifferent attitude toward the relationship.

Question 16

Exchange theory purposes that batterers hit people because they can.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Walker's theory of learned helplessness has been hotly debated.Walker sees it as a sophisticated coping mechanism that allows women to survive a potentially lethal relationship while many feminists see it as demeaning of women in that they fit into the stereotype of "helpless females." Take a position for or against learned helplessness in battering relationships.

Accepted Answer

I am against the idea of learned helples

Question 18

Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common characteristic was that the women had:​

Accepted Answer

A) codependent personalities. 
B) ​witnessed or been victims of personal violence as children. 
C) ​a history of emotional/ psychological instability. 
D) specific personality profiles on personality tests that typed them as dependent and other-controlled. 
A) codependent personalities. 
B) ​witnessed or been victims of personal violence as children. 
C) ​a history of emotional/ psychological instability. 
D) specific personality profiles on personality tests that typed them as dependent and other-controlled.

Question 19

There is little domestic violence in same-sex relationships.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The therapeutic modality for most programs for batterers relies on:​

Accepted Answer

A) an empathic listening and responding approach to assure clients they are heard and cared for.​ 
B) ​a confrontational approach to catch minimizing and projecting of inadequate and insecure behaviors onto significant others. 
C) a cognitive-behavioral approach that changes irrational thinking,self-sabotaging,selective forgetting,setting oneself up for violence,and other maladaptive cognitions. 
D) a dynamic approach that helps achieve insight into present behaviors by interpreting and understanding past behaviors from childhood. 
A) an empathic listening and responding approach to assure clients they are heard and cared for.​ 
B) ​a confrontational approach to catch minimizing and projecting of inadequate and insecure behaviors onto significant others. 
C) a cognitive-behavioral approach that changes irrational thinking,self-sabotaging,selective forgetting,setting oneself up for violence,and other maladaptive cognitions. 
D) a dynamic approach that helps achieve insight into present behaviors by interpreting and understanding past behaviors from childhood.

A batterer's psychological factors have all but which one of the following characteristics?

Battering is a phenomenon closely associated with the lower socio-economic class.

Alcohol abuse causes battering.

With all of the publicity,laws,funding,and other resources that have been devoted to domestic violence,the problem still is endemic to our society.Why is that so?

While gay and lesbian partners report domestic violence,statistically it is a good deal less than what heterosexual partners report.

Which of the following should the crisis worker do when working with a battered person?

Intake interviews for women who are battered are best done in a hospital or police station with the batterer present so the assaulted person can feel safe and secure in naming the perpetrator.

Individual experience,family systems,the community,peers,and society all are mediating variables for domestic violence under what theory?

Children who live in a battering relationship:

Conjugal terrorism as described by Morgan is akin to brainwashing and political terrorism.

Most groups for batterers have all but which of the following as part of their curriculum?

Crisis workers need to understand that battered persons:

According to Walker,much of battering occurs on a random basis.

A number of researchers have attempted to create typologies of batterers.Which of the following is not one of those types?

When women finally decide to end the relationship and leave they will have:

Exchange theory purposes that batterers hit people because they can.

Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common characteristic was that the women had:

There is little domestic violence in same-sex relationships.

The therapeutic modality for most programs for batterers relies on:

Approaching Crisis Intervention

Culturally Effective Helping

The Intervention and Assessment Models

Tools of the Trade

Crisis Case Handling

Telephone and Online Crisis Counseling

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Crisis of Lethality

Sexual Assault

Family Crisis Intervention

Personal Loss

Crisis in Schools

Violent Behavior in Institutions

Legal and Ethical Issues

Burnout, vicarious Traumatization, and Compassion Fatigue

Disaster Response

Chemical Dependency

Crisishostage Negotiation

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Exam 10: Partner Violence

A batterer's psychological factors have all but which one of the following characteristics?​

Battering is a phenomenon closely associated with the lower socio-economic class.

Alcohol abuse causes battering.

With all of the publicity,laws,funding,and other resources that have been devoted to domestic violence,the problem still is endemic to our society.Why is that so?

While gay and lesbian partners report domestic violence,statistically it is a good deal less than what heterosexual partners report.

Which of the following should the crisis worker do when working with a battered person?​

Intake interviews for women who are battered are best done in a hospital or police station with the batterer present so the assaulted person can feel safe and secure in naming the perpetrator.

Individual experience,family systems,the community,peers,and society all are mediating variables for domestic violence under what theory?​

Children who live in a battering relationship:​

Conjugal terrorism as described by Morgan is akin to brainwashing and political terrorism.

Most groups for batterers have all but which of the following as part of their curriculum?​

Crisis workers need to understand that battered persons:​

According to Walker,much of battering occurs on a random basis.

A number of researchers have attempted to create typologies of batterers.Which of the following is not one of those types?​

When women finally decide to end the relationship and leave they will have:​

Exchange theory purposes that batterers hit people because they can.

Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common characteristic was that the women had:​

There is little domestic violence in same-sex relationships.

The therapeutic modality for most programs for batterers relies on:​

Approaching Crisis Intervention

Culturally Effective Helping

The Intervention and Assessment Models

Tools of the Trade

Crisis Case Handling

Telephone and Online Crisis Counseling

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Crisis of Lethality

Sexual Assault

Family Crisis Intervention

Personal Loss

Crisis in Schools

Violent Behavior in Institutions

Legal and Ethical Issues

Burnout, vicarious Traumatization, and Compassion Fatigue

Disaster Response

Chemical Dependency

Crisishostage Negotiation

Filters

A batterer's psychological factors have all but which one of the following characteristics?

Which of the following should the crisis worker do when working with a battered person?

Individual experience,family systems,the community,peers,and society all are mediating variables for domestic violence under what theory?

Children who live in a battering relationship:

Most groups for batterers have all but which of the following as part of their curriculum?

Crisis workers need to understand that battered persons:

A number of researchers have attempted to create typologies of batterers.Which of the following is not one of those types?

When women finally decide to end the relationship and leave they will have:

Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common characteristic was that the women had:

The therapeutic modality for most programs for batterers relies on: