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The themes were categorized within four key themes. The four key themes work as if within women with disabilities experiences or mindsets within domestic violence or seeking help from it.
Fear
Women with disabilities experience a number of fears which become a barrier for seeking help. Fears, such as re-victimization, as they fear the reactions from the perpetrators in circumstance’s such as attempting to or a successfully reporting. These possible scenarios also include interactions such as being targeted by the perpetrators in public. Isolation is another fear which constitutes many aspects including being institutionalized due to escaping their perpetrator who are most likely their carer, as well as fearing becoming homeless and …show more content…
This disbelief includes asexuality assumptions meaning that women with disabilities couldn’t be sexual or sexually abused or that if they were sexual they didn’t have enough knowledge to determine what sexual abuse is. The stereotypes also include having disabilities make them unreliable in being witnesses and perceptions of what perpetrators constitute as women within lesbian relationships can’t experience a woman, practically a petite women participating in domestic violence. This disbelief was also helped by perpetrators appearing respectable and caring in front of personal and giving plausible reason for her distress such as “being on her [period]” (Rich, 2014, p. 424), meaning allegations were ignored, practically when police intervention was sought. There was also disbelief that a carer would abuse the recipient of their care and thus the idea that they could be abused or needed help were also ignored (Rich, 2014; Woodlock, 2014; Hague, Thiara & Mullender, 2011; Ballan & Freyer, 2012; Yoshidaa, DuMontb, Odettec & Lysyd, …show more content…
These skills include the development and use disability related abuse discovery and intervention strategies, abuse prevention systems, adequate services, accessibility and education of the public and frontline personal. A key area for social works is improving their communication strategies to be able to communicate with a wide variety of disabilities and implement in regular practice the Abuse Assessment Screen-Disability (AAS-D) as it has been found to be effective in finding disability related abuse. Including and empowering women with disabilities who have experience domestic violence has also shown to have powerful effects on them and the AAS-D shows this, as in its development it utilized the expertise of women with disabilities who had experience domestic violence. Policy and education are incredibly important in combating the abuse as educated workers and public can better assist with the empowerment of these women and policy development can lead this education into services becoming more accessible (Ballan et al., 2014; Rich, 2014; Woodlock, 2014; Mitra, Manning& Lu, 2012; Yoshidaa, DuMontb, Odettec & Lysyd, 2011; Smith & Strauser, 2008; Coker, Smith & Fadden, 2005: McFarlane et al.,
The themes were categorized within four key themes. The four key themes work as if within women with disabilities experiences or mindsets within domestic violence or seeking help from it.
Fear
Women with disabilities experience a number of fears which become a barrier for seeking help. Fears, such as re-victimization, as they fear the reactions from the perpetrators in circumstance’s such as attempting to or a successfully reporting. These possible scenarios also include interactions such as being targeted by the perpetrators in public. Isolation is another fear which constitutes many aspects including being institutionalized due to escaping their perpetrator who are most likely their carer, as well as fearing becoming homeless and …show more content…
This disbelief includes asexuality assumptions meaning that women with disabilities couldn’t be sexual or sexually abused or that if they were sexual they didn’t have enough knowledge to determine what sexual abuse is. The stereotypes also include having disabilities make them unreliable in being witnesses and perceptions of what perpetrators constitute as women within lesbian relationships can’t experience a woman, practically a petite women participating in domestic violence. This disbelief was also helped by perpetrators appearing respectable and caring in front of personal and giving plausible reason for her distress such as “being on her [period]” (Rich, 2014, p. 424), meaning allegations were ignored, practically when police intervention was sought. There was also disbelief that a carer would abuse the recipient of their care and thus the idea that they could be abused or needed help were also ignored (Rich, 2014; Woodlock, 2014; Hague, Thiara & Mullender, 2011; Ballan & Freyer, 2012; Yoshidaa, DuMontb, Odettec & Lysyd, …show more content…
These skills include the development and use disability related abuse discovery and intervention strategies, abuse prevention systems, adequate services, accessibility and education of the public and frontline personal. A key area for social works is improving their communication strategies to be able to communicate with a wide variety of disabilities and implement in regular practice the Abuse Assessment Screen-Disability (AAS-D) as it has been found to be effective in finding disability related abuse. Including and empowering women with disabilities who have experience domestic violence has also shown to have powerful effects on them and the AAS-D shows this, as in its development it utilized the expertise of women with disabilities who had experience domestic violence. Policy and education are incredibly important in combating the abuse as educated workers and public can better assist with the empowerment of these women and policy development can lead this education into services becoming more accessible (Ballan et al., 2014; Rich, 2014; Woodlock, 2014; Mitra, Manning& Lu, 2012; Yoshidaa, DuMontb, Odettec & Lysyd, 2011; Smith & Strauser, 2008; Coker, Smith & Fadden, 2005: McFarlane et al.,