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Impacts of Sexual Violence on Women’s Sexual Health
Published in Jane M. Ussher, Joan C. Chrisler, Janette Perz, Routledge International Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2019
Many women have experienced cumulative violence, including sexual, physical, and emotional or psychological violence, throughout their lifetimes, which may result in ongoing physical, psychological, relational, and self-care problems. Women who experience sexual abuse as children are far more likely to have relationships involving intimate partner violence as adults (which may itself involve sexual assault) (Alexander, 2009) and are also at risk of experiencing revictimization as adults (Banyard, Williams, & Siegel, 2001). The health effects of repeated sexual and physical violence over many years are difficult to disentangle, and both may cause mental health problems such as PTSD. Most children who are victims of childhood violence experience more than one kind of violence (Blom, Högberg, Olofsson, & Danielsson, 2016; Turner, Finkelhor, & Ormrod, 2006). It is therefore important, when considering sexual violence and its impacts on women’s sexual and reproductive health, to understand that its aetiology may be complex and multi-factorial, rather than resulting from one incident or one type of violence.
Multidisciplinary care for women affected by female genital mutilation/cutting
Published in Gabriele Griffin, Malin Jordal, Body, Migration, Re/Constructive Surgeries, 2018
One of the issues that was clear from several interviews was the fact that FGM/C is rarely an isolated problem; the women had often suffered multiple traumas: The excision as such is traumatic … but sometimes the worst trauma is a forced marriage, violence or rape in marriage…. There is sexual violence, psychological violence, physical violence.(psychologist)
Some ethical issues in psychodynamic work with dangerous people
Published in David Jones, Working with Dangerous People, 2018
In setting out the context for a discussion on consent in the treatment of violent people, there is a third piece of the jigsaw. The old adage that ‘sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me’ is emphatically dead. There is now a clear equivalence between physical violence (sticks and stones) and psychological violence (words). In some cases, society reviles psychological violence more than physical. Much of the moral panic about sex offending is related to this. In handing down a prison sentence to a man who gropes a woman’s breasts on a London bus, the main damage that is done is not physical, it is mental: the psychological trauma of an overt sexual act taking place without her consent; the destruction of the woman’s sense of personal security to ride the buses, secure that she will not be molested; the destruction of the woman’s sense of control and integrity over her own physical body, amplified by the particularity of sexual privacy. This equivalence of psychological and physical violence is also seen in the civil courts, with litigation payouts for instances of bullying, harassment and psychological trauma. This has relevance to the application of the psychological therapies. It establishes that a psychological therapy is potentially an assault if the patient does not consent to be treated.
Continuity and change: Violations of private patriarchal practices and domestic violence against rural wives in China
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2022
These six items are indicators of physical, psychological, and sexual DV. Physical violence involves various forms, including behaviors such as slaps and punches, assaults with a weapon, or even homicide (Watts & Zimmerman, 2002). Wife-battering (item three in our scale) is the most common form of abuse by a husband in China (Liu & Chan, 1999). Psychological violence includes behaviors such as "control, denigration, deprivation, intimidation, threats, the abdication of responsibility, manipulation, blame, harassment, the negation of reality, indifference, making the wife feel guilty, sulking, and infantilization" (Montminy, 2005, p. 3). Items one and two are controlling behaviors, item four is emotional-verbal abuse, and item five is an indicator of indifference, making these four items indicators of psychological violence. "Forced sex" is a frequently used term in the definitions of DV (Bagwell-Gray et al., 2015) and item six is an indicator of sexual violence.
Violence in school: An investigation of physical, psychological, and sexual victimization reported by Italian adolescents
Published in Journal of School Violence, 2019
Claudio Longobardi, L. E. Prino, Matteo Angelo Fabris, Michele Settanni
In view of our findings, it is important for school and institutions to devote time and resources to the prevention of various forms of victimization. Psychological violence emerges as an issue that is particularly felt, and also one that it is often intrinsically associated to other forms of victimization. This kind of abuse deserves additional attention, not just because it is difficult to identify, but also because it is often underestimated, despite the negative impact that it has on the individual’s development, and on the insurgence of psychopathologies (Brassard & Fiorvanti, 2015; Hart & Glaser, 2011; Koch, 2015). Schools should permit its pupils to become resilient and able to face up to any violence suffered. At the same time, attention should be addressed to those who commit the violence, but not necessarily through punishment. The school institution should adopt a supportive approach to prevent pupils from feeling abandoned (Fineran & Bennett, 1998). School staff and educators have the task of protecting the victims of violence and promoting change in those who have committed acts of abuse, through warning and support, trying to balance the two, without resorting to meaningless punishment, while concurrently not becoming naïve do-gooders.
Partner violence and HIV testing uptake among Ethiopian women
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2021
Dawit G. Alemu, Zelalem T. Haile, Juliet Iwelunmor, Shan Qiao, DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, Donaldson F. Conserve
Psychological violence includes a range of behaviors that encompass acts of emotional abuse and controlling behaviors (United Nations, 2015). These acts often exist alongside physical and sexual violence by intimate partners and are acts of violence in themselves(United Nations, 2015). Among the respondents in this study, 23% reported having experienced emotional violence from a spouses or partner. Emotional violence may include the act of insulting or making a woman feel bad about herself, belittling or humiliating her in front others, deliberately scaring or intimidating her, or threatening to hurt her or others she cares (Central Statistical Agency & ICF International, 2016).