FAMILY VIOLENCE STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION!!
Purpose of FV protection act
answers: A. Maximise safety for children and adults who have experienced
family, violence, and
B. Prevent and reduce family violence to the greatest extent, possible and
C. Promote the accountability of perpetrators of family violence for their actions.
What is the gender lens in regards to FV?
answers: Most FV is perpetrated against women, by men.
Behaviours of FV
answers: -coercive behaviour
-Physical or sexual abuse
-Economic
-Emotional or psychological abuse
-threatening behaviour
- Causing or threatening to cause the death or injury to an animal as to control,
dominate or coerced the family member
- Stalking
- Causing a child to hear witness or be exposed to family violence
Coercive control
, answers: Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviour that is used by a
family violence perpetrators to gain control over another family member in order
to subject that family member to psychological and physical, mental, sexual or
financial abuse
How can coercive control make someone feel?
answers: Dependent on the perpetrator, isolated or scared.
What can coercive control look like?
answers: Often involves more subtle forms of abuse, such as verbal abuse,
humiliation, degradation, and controlling and monitoring the family's behaviour
Examples of emotional abuse
answers: -Teasing, name-calling, belittling, or threatening.
Examples of sexual abuse
answers: Unwanted touching, rape, sodomy, coerced nudity, and sexually explicit
photography, Sexual harassment. Grooming, putting them down, sexualised child's
behaviours.
Examples of physical/ social abuse
answers: Monitors emails and calls, isolation as a weapon, intercepts mail,
controls what AFM does.
Examples of economic abuse
SOLUTION!!
Purpose of FV protection act
answers: A. Maximise safety for children and adults who have experienced
family, violence, and
B. Prevent and reduce family violence to the greatest extent, possible and
C. Promote the accountability of perpetrators of family violence for their actions.
What is the gender lens in regards to FV?
answers: Most FV is perpetrated against women, by men.
Behaviours of FV
answers: -coercive behaviour
-Physical or sexual abuse
-Economic
-Emotional or psychological abuse
-threatening behaviour
- Causing or threatening to cause the death or injury to an animal as to control,
dominate or coerced the family member
- Stalking
- Causing a child to hear witness or be exposed to family violence
Coercive control
, answers: Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviour that is used by a
family violence perpetrators to gain control over another family member in order
to subject that family member to psychological and physical, mental, sexual or
financial abuse
How can coercive control make someone feel?
answers: Dependent on the perpetrator, isolated or scared.
What can coercive control look like?
answers: Often involves more subtle forms of abuse, such as verbal abuse,
humiliation, degradation, and controlling and monitoring the family's behaviour
Examples of emotional abuse
answers: -Teasing, name-calling, belittling, or threatening.
Examples of sexual abuse
answers: Unwanted touching, rape, sodomy, coerced nudity, and sexually explicit
photography, Sexual harassment. Grooming, putting them down, sexualised child's
behaviours.
Examples of physical/ social abuse
answers: Monitors emails and calls, isolation as a weapon, intercepts mail,
controls what AFM does.
Examples of economic abuse
