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    INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a serious social problem, and refers to “physical, psychological, and/or sexual coercion perpetrated in the context of an intimate relationship” (McHugh & Frieze, 2006, p. 2). According to World Health Organization (2012) Intimate Partner Violence consists of “physical aggression, psychological abuse, forced intercourse and other forms of sexual coercion, and various controlling behaviours such as isolating a person from family and…

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    gov/violenceprevention/childmaltreatment/consequences.html Effects of Complex Trauma. (n.d.). Retrieved December 06, 2016, from http://www.nctsn.org/trauma-types/complex-trauma/effects-of-complex-trauma Emotional and Psychological Trauma. (n.d.). Retrieved December 06, 2016, from http://www.helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/emotional-and-psychological-trauma.htm How Childhood Abuse Can Manifest in Adult Relationships. (2013). Retrieved December 06, 2016, from…

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    Due to its unknown nature and being unpredictable, every human is vulnerable to experiencing a crisis (Jais, 2016). This essay demonstrates what psychological impact occurs from crisis and trauma that is caused by a violent crime. Violent crime is defined as an aggravated assault that includes some sort of life-threatening nature or bodily harm is caused to one or more individuals (Fazel & Grann, 2006). Violent crime situations that involve crisis and trauma are explored from a counselling…

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    of a child. Adolescents, who are not fully matured to comprehend a situation of this magnitude, often become filled with emotions that they also do not understand. Many possibilities that have the potential to be played out for children in these types of situations are done so. One of which possibilities is when children take the life they are presented with and learn to use it as a form of…

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    HPA Axis, and the all the neurotransmitters return to baseline, however, a person with PTSD, does not return to a normal baseline because the baseline may be lowered to a new threshold. This means that it will take less environment, psychological, or psychological triggers to activate the HPA Axis and the Adrenergic System. For example, Conrad could not handle the news of his friend’s suicide because his stress threshold is very low which caused his Adrenergic System to become activated and in…

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    Women of abuse often find themselves repeating the same cycle of abuse, often becoming involved in other abusive relationships. This paper is a discussion on the types of abuse that can be inflicted upon women by their spouses or significant others, and the damage which can be extremely far reaching. It will also focus on the psychological benefit of utilizing Forgiveness Therapy as a possible…

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    coercing (forcing) sexual acts and marital rape; it results in unintended pregnancies, abortions, adverse pregnancy outcomes (such as low birth weight or perinatal death, maternal morbidity or even mortality) and sexually transmitted diseases.1 Psychological abuses include verbal abuses, criticizing wife at public in a humiliating way and threatening behaviours (throwing things, threatening with a fist, threatening to injure the children, threatening with a weapon, threatening with divorce…

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    Physical abuse is the most violent type of abuse, and it includes the perpetrator hitting, throwing, smacking, punching, choking, and doing anything physically that puts the victim 's life in danger. Emotional/psychological abuse has more to do with words. In an emotional/psychological abusive relationship, the perpetrator may use hurtful words and phrases, as well as threaten to hurt themselves or any of the…

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    new lens through which we can view fundamental cultural differences. Nonetheless, you can relate to the individualist U.S with similar points of Triandis theory which is in fact true, for example, having less importance and every man to themselves type of…

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    against women has become the serious threat for the adjustment of women in all over the world. Now a days, women experience different forms of violence. The most common form of violence is domestic violence, which has been described as the physical, psychological or emotional and sexual violence against women caused by their close family members (Heise, Raikes, Watts, & Zwi, 1994). Women with the history of domestic violence present in almost all societies of the world. Women in Pakistan also…

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