Protective Parent Trust Betrayed
When protective parents reach out for help and put their trust in the systems put in place to protect them and their children, too often they find that trust betrayed.
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Domestic Violence Treatment Training
Child witness-victims heal with Transformational Journaling™
Victims of domestic violence have a prominent relationship between their childhood history of victimization and adult victimization. We find many domestic violence victims who relate witnessing domestic violence of their mother. In addition, there is a significant history among domestic violence victims being abused during childhood.
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Kids Count and Effects of Violence on Children
Lt. Gov. Garcia talked about the impact of a down economy on kids. He noted how poverty impacts kids including the social issues tied to economic downturns. Among these were spousal abuse, and child abuse and neglect.
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Personality Disorders in Domestic Violence Treatment
Personality disorders are an important criminogenic factor in treatment with domestic violence offenders.
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Three Trauma Issues Domestic Violence Victims Experience
Three Trauma Issues Domestic Violence Victims Experience include living daily with an abuser who engages in Coercive Control Tactics, Physical, and Sexual abuse; trauma surrounding victims escape to safety with or without her children; and being a Protective Mother
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Domestic violence, child abuse, substance abuse: The intersections
How do the ACE study findings inform domestic violence treatment providers about the criminogenic factors of domestic violence, child abuse, and substance abuse as they intersect?
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Batterers Coercive Control Tactics Across Multiple Settings
Batterers Coercive Control Tactics Across Multiple Settings is the topic I will speak on at the Sex Offender Management Conference in Breckenridge, CO in July, 2011.
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Domestic Violence Impacts Victims
The enormous impacts of domestic violence on victims can paralyze a victim into staying in an abusive relationship or just giving up. This is not the only option when you understand the short and long-term impacts of abuse on the victim.
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Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence
Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence is one of the family systems parts that impacts the ongoing legacy of family violence.
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Batterers Use DV by Proxy
“DV by Proxy refers to a pattern of behavior which is a parent with a history of using domestic violence or intimidation, uses a child as a substitute when he no longer has access to his former partner.” Coercive Control by Proxy is a more useful term to include anyone who carries out, knowingly or unknowingly, tactics and behaviors for the abuser without the abuser having direct contact with the victim.
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