ICDVP TEST PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
AND ACCURATE RESPONSES
●● What did ancient Babylonian and Mosaic law illustrate?
Answer: That slavery, private property, and the subjugation of women
were facts of life.
●● What happened to women in American colonies regarding political
rights?
Answer: They were without political rights and considered legal non-
entities.
●● What is bride capture?
Answer: When a man took possession of a woman by raping her,
considered an acceptable means of acquiring women.
●● What did the rule of thumb law state?
Answer: A man could legally beat his wife with a stick as long as it was
not thicker than his thumb.
●● How did Greek poetry stigmatize women?
Answer: It portrayed women as innately evil and their creation as
punishment for men.
,●● When did the States begin rejecting the legal justification of wife
beating?
Answer: In the late 1870s.
●● What is the IDVA definition of harassment?
Answer: Knowing conduct which is not necessary to accomplish a
reasonable purpose and causes emotional distress.
●● What are some examples of harassment listed in the IDVA?
Answer: Repeatedly telephoning, creating disturbances, keeping under
surveillance, threatening physical force, following in public.
●● Who is most responsible for the creation of the National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence in 1978?
Answer: The United States Commission of Civil Rights.
●● What does VAWA stand for?
Answer: The Violence Against Women's Act.
●● What does the federal Violence Against Women's Act state regarding
firearms?
Answer: It prohibits a person convicted of domestic violence from
possessing a firearm or ammunition.
,●● How does the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (IDVA) define a
domestic violence advocate?
Answer: Any employee or volunteer with at least 40 hours of training in
domestic violence advocacy.
●● What is a common effect of domestic violence on victims?
Answer: Victims accepting blame for the abuse.
●● What percentage of men who abuse their partners also abuse their
children?
Answer: Over 50%.
●● What is not among the historical roots of feminism and the battered
women's movement?
Answer: The medical profession's treatment.
●● What are some characteristics found in children who witness
domestic violence?
Answer: Depression, stress disorders, poor impulse control, confusion,
and assumption that violence is normal.
●● What is a crisis?
, Answer: A perception of an event as an intolerable difficulty that
exceeds a person's resources.
●● What are the 3 parts of a crisis?
Answer: 1. A precipitating event; 2. A perception causing subjective
distress; 3. Failure of coping methods.
●● What is the ABC Model of Crisis Intervention?
Answer: A. Develop rapport; B. Identify the problem; C. Explore coping
strategies.
●● What type of questions are best to use according to the ABC Model?
Answer: Open-ended questions such as what or how.
●● What is the goal of crisis intervention?
Answer: To bring the client back to the pre-crisis level of functioning.
●● What is the most basic skill of helping?
Answer: Listening.
●● What do battered women infected with sexually transmitted diseases
often face?
Answer: They are forced to have unprotected sex by their abusers.
AND ACCURATE RESPONSES
●● What did ancient Babylonian and Mosaic law illustrate?
Answer: That slavery, private property, and the subjugation of women
were facts of life.
●● What happened to women in American colonies regarding political
rights?
Answer: They were without political rights and considered legal non-
entities.
●● What is bride capture?
Answer: When a man took possession of a woman by raping her,
considered an acceptable means of acquiring women.
●● What did the rule of thumb law state?
Answer: A man could legally beat his wife with a stick as long as it was
not thicker than his thumb.
●● How did Greek poetry stigmatize women?
Answer: It portrayed women as innately evil and their creation as
punishment for men.
,●● When did the States begin rejecting the legal justification of wife
beating?
Answer: In the late 1870s.
●● What is the IDVA definition of harassment?
Answer: Knowing conduct which is not necessary to accomplish a
reasonable purpose and causes emotional distress.
●● What are some examples of harassment listed in the IDVA?
Answer: Repeatedly telephoning, creating disturbances, keeping under
surveillance, threatening physical force, following in public.
●● Who is most responsible for the creation of the National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence in 1978?
Answer: The United States Commission of Civil Rights.
●● What does VAWA stand for?
Answer: The Violence Against Women's Act.
●● What does the federal Violence Against Women's Act state regarding
firearms?
Answer: It prohibits a person convicted of domestic violence from
possessing a firearm or ammunition.
,●● How does the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (IDVA) define a
domestic violence advocate?
Answer: Any employee or volunteer with at least 40 hours of training in
domestic violence advocacy.
●● What is a common effect of domestic violence on victims?
Answer: Victims accepting blame for the abuse.
●● What percentage of men who abuse their partners also abuse their
children?
Answer: Over 50%.
●● What is not among the historical roots of feminism and the battered
women's movement?
Answer: The medical profession's treatment.
●● What are some characteristics found in children who witness
domestic violence?
Answer: Depression, stress disorders, poor impulse control, confusion,
and assumption that violence is normal.
●● What is a crisis?
, Answer: A perception of an event as an intolerable difficulty that
exceeds a person's resources.
●● What are the 3 parts of a crisis?
Answer: 1. A precipitating event; 2. A perception causing subjective
distress; 3. Failure of coping methods.
●● What is the ABC Model of Crisis Intervention?
Answer: A. Develop rapport; B. Identify the problem; C. Explore coping
strategies.
●● What type of questions are best to use according to the ABC Model?
Answer: Open-ended questions such as what or how.
●● What is the goal of crisis intervention?
Answer: To bring the client back to the pre-crisis level of functioning.
●● What is the most basic skill of helping?
Answer: Listening.
●● What do battered women infected with sexually transmitted diseases
often face?
Answer: They are forced to have unprotected sex by their abusers.
