PSYC 379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intimate Partner Violence, Head Injury, Psychological Testing
22 Sep 2016
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Week 5 1: assessing intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence: actual, attempted, or threatened physical harm of a current or former intimate partner. Similar to nay violence, it includes fear inducing behavior and not solely defined by the outcome: relatively little harm caused but serious harm intended. Prevalence: estimates of 12 to 50% of violent crime in canada, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 5 men report being a victim of and perpetrating intimate partner violence. Risk of serious harm: of female homicide victims killed by intimate partner, other mental health consequences like ptsd or depression. Recidivism: may be repeated or even daily, unlike most other violence. Previous relational aggression/ipv: verbal/emotional abuse, bidirectional ipv. Demographic characteristics: younger age, ses factors. Psychological characteristics: anger, hostility, fear of abandonment. Psychopathology: depression, ptsd, alcohol abuse, bpd, increase self-report of this is increase correlation of intimate partner violence. Relationships characteristics: relationship distress and conflict.
