Deck 10: Partner Violence

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Exchange theory purposes that batterers hit people because they can.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

There are legal precedents that condone spouse abuse.

Question 5

While court-mandated treatment programs have been mandated for batterers,the evidence that they work to reduce future violence is mixed.

Question 6

U.S.Department of Justice statistics probably underestimate the magnitude of domestic violence for all of the following reasons,except:​

A)cultural norms tolerate and in some instances condone family violence.
B)​confidentiality and shame keeps violence a family secret.
C)poor and non-English speaking women are underreported and women who are institutionalized or hospitalized are not included.
D)same-sex domestic violence is counted multiple times in the research.

Question 7

Nested ecological theory proposes that no single factor effectively explains battering.

Question 8

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

Question 9

Once a woman decides to leave the battering relationship,comes to an abuse shelter,and regains some psychological equilibrium,the crisis worker's first job is to provide immediate practical advice on such issues as finding a place to live,child care,financial aid,etc.

Question 10

One of the major components of treatment program for batterers is to start understanding they have choices.

Question 11

Learning theory proposes that battering occurs in generational patterns as parents teach relationship skills to their children.

Question 12

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

Question 13

Learned helplessness proposes that women stay in abusive relationships because they have been conditioned to believe they cannot predict their own safety and nothing they do will change the situation.

Question 14

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

Question 15

Paternalism is the keystone dynamic of most battering.

Question 16

There is little domestic violence in same-sex relationships.

Question 17

There is evidence that psychopathology and neurophysiological disorders play a part in the reason some perpetrators batter.

Question 18

One of the reasons that same-sex partners do not report battering is the fear they will be "inned."

Question 19

Based in psychoanalytic theory,the idea of erotic masochism remains relevant as the research evidence supports the idea battering is sexy.

Question 20

Alcohol abuse causes battering.

Question 21

Many women stay in battering relationships because they:​

A)are co-dependent.
B)​have little education and few career opportunities.
C)​will be embarrassed if the secret gets out.
D)are enablers.

Question 22

All of the following are myths associated with battering,except:​

A)alcohol abuse is a prime reason for battering.
B)​"problem" families are mainly involved in battering.
C)​battering relationships are more prominent in the lower socio-economic classes.
D)older couples have violent relationships,which include high risk for lethality.

Question 23

The Duluth model can best be characterized as:​

A)a cognitive-behavioral treatment for batterers.
B)providing support to women across a range of issues.​
C)​an integrated,systemic intervention coordinated between a variety of agencies. 
D)a biased program that seeks to give batterers what that dished out.

Question 24

Crisis workers need to understand that battered persons:​

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 25

Women who stay in a battering relationship may:​

A)have a self-concept that is dependent on the relationship.
B)​attempt to exert a great deal of subtle control over the relationship.
C)​use the relationship to express their personal power.
D)enjoy many elements of the relationship.

Question 26

Common client problems that shelter workers must deal with is not:​

A)grieving over the "death" of the relationship.
B)​terror attacks.
C)​manipulation of the worker by dependent clients.
D)the presence of emotional support.

Question 27

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

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

Question 28

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

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

Question 29

In helping a battered person decide whether to stay or leave,the crisis worker should:​

A)call the police if the abuser is coming back.
B)​offer to go and pick up the victim.
C)​determine how dangerous the situation is.
D)do all of these or whatever else is necessary to get the woman to leave.

Question 30

Which of the following statements are true of courtship violence?​

A)Good students are more likely to have violent relationships.
B)One quarter of victims and one third of offenders in one study believed violence is a sign of love.​
C)​Having one steady dating partner increases the odds of violence the longer the relationship lasts.
D)Strict monitoring and conservative sexual attitudes of parents is a risk factor for dating violence.

Question 31

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

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

Question 32

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

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 33

​Walker's schema for a battering relationship is:

A)calmness,tension,violence,crisis.
B)​stress,violence,reconciliation,violence.
C)​violence,crisis,intervention,reconciliation.
D)love,stress,anger,violence.

Question 34

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

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 35

Children who live in 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 36

Following a violent episode:​

A)the victim may become remorseful.
B)​the abuser may offer forgiveness.
C)​resolution of the problem will finally occur.
D)the relationship may be renegotiated so that the victim gains more control.

Question 37

Learned helplessness is:​

A)a dependent response to rational action statements the worker makes.
B)​a ploy of histrionic personality types.
C)​a concept the worker teaches the client who is faced with extreme danger.
D)making choices to minimize harm in an ongoing unpleasant situation.

Question 38

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

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 39

Research indicates that the greater the number of times a person leaves an abusive relationship the more likely the individual will:​

A)attempt to salvage the domestic relationship and suffer through it.
B)​go to battered women's support groups and seek individual therapy for her problems.
C)​leave permanently.
D)experience increasing grief and depression over the loss of the relationship.

Question 40

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

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 41

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.

Question 42

Choose one of the domestic violence models discussed in the book.Wage an argument as to why it is the BEST model.

Question 43

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

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.

Question 44

One reason partners do not report violence in same-sex relationships is under reported because:​

A)there is a fear they will be "outted" by the violent partner.
B)​there is less physical but more psychological violence in these relationships.
C)​same sex couples simply are less violent.
D)power and control are resolved by the non-hierarchical nature of same-sex relationships.

Question 45

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?