PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Battered Person Syndrome, Learned Helplessness, Psychological Abuse
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Plan for today: domestic abuse, battered women syndrome. Post traumatic stress disorder: rape trauma syndrome, domestic abuse (jones, 1994a) Leading cause of injury in american women sending more than 1 million for medical treatment every year. Spousal violence contributes to one fourth of all suicide attempts by women. 37% of all obstetric patients are battered during pregnancy. 50% of homeless women and children are fleeing from male violence: domestic abuse. Fbi reports that over 1400 women are killed by their partners each year (6% of homicides) Lenore walker (1992) over one third of all women will be abused at some point in their lives. 16% of american families experience violence, 3-4% experience life threatening violence. Each year 188,000 women are injured severely enough to require serious medical attention (straus & gelles, 1988: domestic abusers typology, psychopathic abuser (violent/anti-social, overcontrolled exploder (family only, emotionally volatile (dysphoric/borderline. It is ok to hit someone , frequency is.
