Emotional Abuse Therapy Assignment Outline

William, Rachel’s three year old son is crying standing over her as she is slowly regaining consciousness. Her boyfriend, Daniel, was gone; their bedroom door was left cracked open and Rachel was on the couch in their room. Pained around her neck from where he choked her, she tries to wrap her head around how she got to this point. Why does Daniel hate her? What did she do this time? Can she, should she, just leave with William? Rachel realizes she has to get out of the house before Daniel gets back. When she arrives at her mother’s house, her mom is alarmed. Rachel has bruises around her neck and marks around her hairline. Rachel’s mother tells her “You come here every week and you go back to that monster every week. I see these bruises but you must not feel they are a problem since you keep going back to him.” Rachel’s mom walks out of the room frustrated.

In the article, Abuser & Victim…Alike, the author argues that both the abuser and the victim share responsibility for their situations. This is only true if we choose to believe that such people voluntarily stay and allow the abuse to continue. In this sense, some truth might exist, however, we must remember the lack of control felt by each victim, as well as the emotional torment they experience that serves to trap them in their current situations. Alternatively, it would be difficult for the author to validate such a claim of shared responsibility if the abused were a child, disabled or mentally handicapped person. To a certain degree, the author himself contradicts his previous statement when he comments that “abusers have all the power”.

Each year more cases of Emotional abuse go unreported because the majority of people experiencing emotional abuse are not aware that it is happening. I was one of these people years ago; it took some caring friends to get me to see what was going on. In the following paragraphs I will touch on ways one can tell they are being emotionally abused, and ways to get help. While Undefined, Emotional abuse affects more people each day because they do not know that they are being abused.

The Power and Control Wheel (Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2012, p. 21) illustrates how a perpetrator could exert power over another by controlling their behaviour with different forms of violence. Much of the work with perpetrators could center around educating them of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that they are experiencing that contribute to the control. However, as outlined in Todd et al., “self-correction is preferable to correction by others” (2014, p. 1119) so this information may only be presented after James has articulated most of the concepts on his own. The other intervention strategies are: 1) abusive behaviour is a deliberate, conscious choice; 2) the assumption of a preexisting ability; 3) violence as an effect; 4) violence as a response; 5) excuses and other forms of justifying abusive conduct are valuable sources of therapeutic material (p.1118). All six of these concepts are an important “conceptual base” for working with perpetrators of

Every choice that an abused woman considers to do with regards in seeking help or ending the relationship involves a variety of risks. Time and time again, the common question arises, “why doesn’t she just leave?” Most often abused women, at great and potentially fatal risk, do leave their abusive relationships. However, there is a multitude of barriers, including increasing abuse and the potential for re-victimization by the system that does not respond accordingly, and most often force many women to return to their abusers. A woman may become vulnerable as she goes through the stages of leaving her abuser. There are many reasons why a woman becomes vulnerable; guilt, denial, and fear may be among a few reasons, though no matter what the

In today’s world, many have become apathetic to the problems around them thus causing the problems to grow and become larger issues. While there are thousands of ideas of what the most concerning problems in the world are, all issues can be broken down to two basic ideas that either cause the conflict or are the effect, contentment and regret. With the recent terrorist attacks in France, there are many individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder. According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, “About 6 of every 10 (or 60%) of men and 5 of every 10 (or 50%) of women experience at least one trauma in their lives” (PTSD: National Center for PTSD).

Many relationships go through domestic abuse, but Kaufman & Jasinski (1998), asserts that most of the abusers are men. Moreover, Rosenbaum & O’Leary (1981) showed that men who abuse their partners are unassertive. An abundance of men intimidate and turn violent towards their partner in order to achieve what they want, since they lack confidence to show others what they need (Fanlk, 1977). Since many batters feel anxiety and lack emotional needs (Dutton, 1998), they are unable to eloquently express their feelings, thoughts, and emotions in a non aggressive way (Winters, Clift, & Dutton, 2004). In order to help treat abusers, Winters, Clift, and Dutton (2004) conducted research using Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) from Bar-On (1997). EQ-i

The CDC reports that nearly half of all men and women in the United States have been psychologically abused by a romantic partner, while around a quarter of women and 1 in 7 men have been physically abused [2]. This is a dramatic difference from areas like the United Kingdom, where 8.2% of women and 4% of men have been abused [3] One in three people experience abuse by a romantic partner by the age of eighteen [4]. In 2015, 87% of hospitalized abuse victims in New York state were women, and were admitted more often than male victims [5]. This can likely be partially attributed to traditional gender roles, which assume that men are “stronger” than women and are “weak” if they are hurt by a woman.

In assessing the client through cognitive theory, K appears to be unable to find equilibrium between her schema of knowing abuse is wrong and not the victim’s fault, and her learned experience of being abused and having these opinion and thoughts towards herself. In hypothetical situations, she knows and understands that abuse victims are not to blame for their abuse, but she is unable to assimilate that information into her lived experience of abuse. The social worker would likely assess K as having cognitive distortions about personal abuse. In the planning process, the social worker must work to understand why K has the particular assumptions that she is to blame for the abuse. Planning what interventions and measures to take with K means listening attentively to the ways in which K understands and verbalizes her understanding of her abuse and the situation. The social worker must also work with K to outline possible goals that she wishes to get out of the treatment. In intervention, “the social worker helps the client adjust his or her cognitive process to better facilitate the attainment of goals” (Hutchison, 2015, p. 126). Because the social worker identified a cognitive distortion in the way K views her personal abuse in relation to hypothetical abuse, intervention should be structured in bringing equilibrium back to K’s schemata about abuse.

Abusive Relationships is defined as the “systematic pattern of behaviors in a relationship that are used to gain and/or maintain power and control over another” (Huston, 2010). The forms of abuse range from emotional to financial and each has an everlasting effect on the victim. An abusive relationship also has a discrete effect on the mind of the victim; they experience many psychology difficulties pre and post the abuse. Yet despite all these catastrophic consequences to both the mind and body caused by the constant abuse, many of the victims tend to stay in the relationships. The victim’s deal with emotional challenges on a daily basis, they are wounded on both a mental and psychical level, and have to deal with the constant pressure

You’re Ugly! Stupid! Can you do anything right? I wished you were never born! Does any of these words sound familiar or bring back memories. If they do then you are not alone, there are many people on a daily basis who suffer from verbal-emotional abuse. In today’s society too many of our children live in homes where they face verbal-emotional abuse on a regular basis. In this paper we will discuss what verbal emotional abuse is, why so many children face verbal-emotional abuse and how to tell what the signs of verbal emotional abuse are in order to assist a child in need.

However, all forms of child abuse carry emotional consequences because the child's psychological and emotional development inevitably suffers from all forms of abuse. An intervention model that would focus on emotional abuse could also focus on preventing other forms of abuse because violent behavior towards children often comes from the same underlying causes, and most risk factors for child maltreatment are associated with caregiver, family, and environmental factors (McDonald, 2007). With this in mind, a possible solution would have to include early detection, but the intervention would most likely focus on factors that cause all types of child abuse. Despite the widespread occurrences of all forms of abuse, emotional neglect or maltreatment are practically impossible to detect while they occur and impair the child's normal development and social integration. Emotional abuse includes includes verbal, mental, and psychological maltreatment of children, and it is frequently overlooked by the community and mental health professionals who do not define emotional abuse as a suitable factor for diagnostic purposes (as cited in Schneider, Baumrind, & Kimerling, 2007). In reality, emotional abuse is frequently used in many families, it occurs in several worldwide cultures, and it carries significant consequences that should not be overlooked.

Abstract Domestic Violence is a crisis that many families have experienced. Women are often caught off guard and are unprepared for the series of battering to occur; they may be unsure of how to proceed and what they will do if they decide to leave. Crisis affects each woman differently. An individual’s personal, material, and social resources impact how a person will respond to a crisis. The individual’s resources also impact how long the person will be going through

A. Pediatric Emergency Medicine reports that an estimated one in four girls and one in six have experienced some form of sexual abuse by the time they are 18 years old. (Source 3: Statistic)

The authors of this article found there were many treatments available for women who have been emotional abused by a spousal, but found that there wasn’t any, “clear empirical support for the efficacy” (Reed & Enright, 2006, p. 920). Many researchers have defined the abuse or established ways