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•Legal Domestic Abuse The Reality of Family Violence and Institutionalized Abuse
When domestic abuse survivors show up in the system to protect their children and themselves from family violence, they can unknowingly step into institutionalized abuse. This is especially true when they rely on family court to provide remedy for domestic violence.
What Is Institutionalized Abuse?
Institutionalized abuse is where one person willfully, openly and legally is taking advantage of and violating the rights and liberties of another person...all while being paid.
People worldwide...
•Domestic Violence Survivor s Health 7 Secrets for Successful Weight Management for Abuse Survivors
We hear it all the time: You're too fat. Your hair is too short, too long, you're a dummy, you're too fat, you can't, you won't, you shouldn't, you're too fat! Sound familiar.
It's no wonder that domestic abuse survivors develop dysfunctional relationships with their bodies and unhealthy eating habits. Far be it for him to see me enjoying a candy bar...so I'll sneak it in and have it while alone in my car.
As one survivor shared, pulling out that snickers in the privacy of her car was her...
•Legal Psychiatric Psychological Abuse From Family to Court from Court to Shrink
A survivor asks, Once your abusive partner has used the legal system for further abuse, and final papers are filed with you having to see a psychologist of his choosing, what do you do? How do you turn the case around? He continues to threaten to take the children away.
When you are in this situation, it feels like something went wrong. You ask yourself, How is it that I'm the victim/survivor and I'm having to defend myself and prove my mental/emotional stability. Right?
If you are in this...
•Domestic Violence Counseling When the Counselor Becomes Your Enemy
I often hear domestic violence survivors complain that the counselor they are seeing with their partner has sided with him/her. These victims expected to seek therapeutic remedy for the dysfunction that they live, and they discover they have gained another enemy.
Here are some things you will want to know if you are going to a therapist with your partner for domestic abuse.
1) Expect the therapy to be fertile ground for a continuation of what you experience in the privacy of your own home....
•Psychological Help for Patients Victimized by Intimate Partners A Clinical Advocacy Model
When the family wants the patient sick, treatment and recovery are impossible. This is the way it usually appears for all practical purposes. Family members' defenses protect interpersonal and intergenerational dysfunction...unless the patient is internally inspired and externally supported to break the cycle.
As clinicians we know the patient's resistance is an integral part of the psychotherapeutic change process. And in the context of therapy we learn to work with it. We use it to create...
•Spousal Legal Abuse Sticks and Stones in Family Court
I hear battered women's outrage over what their opposition says about them in divorce court. They take it to heart and integrate the slanderous comments as though they really are the picture painted by the other side.
Best part of it is they usually are not correct in their assumptions and beliefs. Part of my job then becomes helping them awaken to this...and, of course, become enlightened warriors during the warfare and thereafter.
If you are a domestic violence survivor in divorce court...
•Psychological Legal Abuse When Your Psychotherapy Is the Victim
We all know that when we see a victim of domestic abuse, there are other people impacted by this person's victimization. Some are affected directly, some indirectly, some intentionally and some inadvertently.
Now if you've read my writings, you know I address the impact of intimate partner violence on survivors, on children, on batterers in divorce, and on the healthcare providers employed.
Come with me and let's look closer at the impact of this dynamic on your therapy. Let's say you and...
•Battered Women When Mature Women Leave Abusive Relationships
Dr. King, speak to how it is for the mature woman in an abusive relationship and how it is for her when she leaves, writes a reader.
My knee jerk response to this request was, the dynamics are the same. Battering is battering is battering. An abuse dynamic that is long standing or discovered later in life resembles an abuse dynamic earlier in life.
If it is, indeed, intimate partner violence, it will carry all of the defining characteristics of: controlling and possessive behavior,...
•Leaving an Abusive Relationship What You Must Know to Leave an Abusive Relationship Safely
Often times we hear that leaving an abuser, can be deadly. According to FBI reports 75% of all homicides by intimate male partners occurred after the victim left.
Battered women are far more vulnerable to physical attack as well as attacks to their personal privacy, their civil liberties and their parental rights after they leave. Now you might ask why.
Why are battered women at greater danger when they leave?
When a victim leaves an abusive relationship and moves out, the mere physical...
•Domestic Violence Healing Psychophysiological Illnesses of Emotional Verbal Abuse
Migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, essential hypertension, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, chronic anxiety, depression are just a few of the ongoing complaints of domestic abuse survivors. And it's not surprising.
These conditions are ALL mediated by the sympathetic nervous systema system perpetually on for individuals whose lives are entangled in domestic abuse.
Stemming back to our caveman ancestors, we inherited a physiology that is built to protect us from the...
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