PSYC 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Psychological Abuse

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

Document Summary

This obnoxious cycle occurs when one partner criticizes and nags the other, and the other retreats from the confrontation and becomes defensive. Physical, sexual, psychological abuse and stalking committed by one partner against the other in a relationship. Pattern and used for control in the relationship. Their need for help is often more so the reason than you causing it. College women are most likely to be raped by: classmates, friends, and boyfriends/ex-boyfriends. 22% of the women and 7% of men in the u. s. have experienced a violent assault by an intimate partner. Women report doing it just as much as men but men report being victims of it much less. There are four distinct types of violence in romantic couples: Situational couple violence erupts from specific angry arguments that get out of hand. Intimate terrorism one partner uses violence as a tool to control and oppress the other. Most battered women either end the violence or leave their partners.