PSY C9 IPV

Cycle of Violence

Describes the three stages - Tension Building, Acute Battering, and Contrition/Remorse - in the pattern of abuse seen in intimate partner violence.

Characteristics of the Abusive Personality

Outlines traits like Borderline Personality Disorder, chronic anger, trauma symptoms, and fearful attachment that predispose individuals to assault their partners.

Etiology of IPV

Examines sociological-feminist, social and structural, and social learning theories to understand the underlying causes of intimate partner violence.

IPV Risk Assessment

Involves structured tools like the Propensity for Abusiveness Scale and the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment to evaluate the risk of intimate partner violence.

The Duluth Model

A cognitive-behavioral approach aimed at changing abusive behavior by exploring non-controlling and non-violent ways of relating in intimate relationships.

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Violence occurring between intimate partners who are living together or separated.

Prevalence

The total number of people who have experienced abuse or neglect in a specified time period.

Incidence

The number of new cases identified or reported at a given point in time, usually one year.

Coercive Control

A pattern of behavior that establishes dominance over another person using intimidation, isolation, and threats of violence.

Patriarchal Theory

Suggests violence of men against their female partners is rooted in a broad set of cultural beliefs and values that support male dominance of women.

Social Learning Theory

A theory of human behavior that posits people develop skills, behaviors, and attitudes by how they are directly reinforced or punished for these skills, behaviors, and attitudes and by observing how others are simply punished or reinforced.

Instigator

In social learning theory, events in the environment or within the individual that trigger violence.

Regulators

In social learning theory, the consequences of violence that result in an increase or decrease in the probability of future violence.

Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)

Developed to assess how a person and their partner resolve conflict, ranging from constructive problem solving to physical aggression.

Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA)

An actuarial instrument developed to predict intimate partner recidivism, providing a probability of reoffending within 5 years based on various risk factors.

SARA-V3

Version 3 of the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment, consisting of 24 items divided into three domains:nature of IPV, perpetrator risk factors, and victim vulnerability factors.

Risk Factors

Specific criteria with demonstrated relationships to spousal assault recidivism, coded on a three-point scale in the SARA-V3 assessment.

Duluth Model

Treatment program for male batterers focusing on power and control dynamics, aiming to prevent future violence by changing patriarchal beliefs.

ODARA

Risk assessment tool slightly more accurate than SARA, used to evaluate the risk of intimate partner violence.

Family-only Batterer

Male batterer with low levels of intimate violence, not violent outside the home, and lacking psychopathological symptoms or negative attitudes supportive of violence.

Generally Violent/Antisocial Batterer

Male batterer engaging in moderate to high levels of intimate violence, frequently violent outside the home, with criminal acts, substance use problems, and violent supportive attitudes.

Dysphoric-Borderline Batterer

Male batterer with moderate to severe levels of intimate violence, depression, borderline personality traits, and violence primarily towards intimate partners.

Gottman's Physiological Perspective

Categorization of male batterers based on heart rate responses during conflict into Type 1 (decreased heart rate, high severe violence) and Type 2 (increased heart rate, violence inside the home) abusers.