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Definition

•refers to violence between two people

WHO 2002

•acts of; physical aggression, psychological abuse, forced intercourse, and many other controlling behaviours

IPV

•global health problem that is increasing in developing countries

Office for national statistics 2017

•2017= 1,947,000 domestic abuse victims

Office for national statistics 2018

•1/6 victim reported to police

Cycle of violence (Walker, 1979)

•most prominent theory; includes learned helplessness and battered women’s syndrome men

Three phases of cycle of violence theory

1) tension building phase (women become hyper vigilant to her partners cues and adapts her behaviour accordingly)


2) explosion of acute battering (severe or lethally violent battering)


3) calm, loving respite (honeymoon period, bettered shows remorse and promises to never do it again)

Gunderson ‘borderline personality’

Three phase defence structure of borderline personality

Phase 1

Phase 1) a dysphoric statement (intimacy needs are Unmet and requires motivation, insight and skills to assert those are non-existent

Phase 2

•relationship is perceived as lost (the defence structure expresses itself anger, devaluation of the significant other)

Phase 3

•occurs when the relationship is lost (borderline personality engages in behaviours designed to ward off the feelings of aloneness)



ALL SIMILAR TO PHASES OF VIOLENCE

Women’s response to cycle of violence theory

Learned helplessness: overtime women trapped in the cycle motivations respond to the violent and aggressive acts start to diminish


Bowker (1986) adapt other coping behaviours


Walker (1979) added a calm phase to the model- where incident Is forgotten

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