Intimate Partner Violence Theory

Why doesn’t don’t they just leave? This is probably one of the most frequently asked question to or about a person in an abusive relationship. No matter how obvious it is from the outside of why that person should leave it never feels that way for the person in the relationship. These relationship experiences happen to men and women yet women’s experiences are the most talked about since they are most frequent. Young couples such as high school and college relationships should be better education about intimate terrorism because it causes a person to become trapped in a relationship using emotional manipulation, acceptance of learned helplessness theory, and the lack of communication about the warning signs.

The first step to understanding

This is necessary to have a greater understand how the study of IPV plays an important part in relationship dynamics. Johnson’s research is cornerstone because he breaks down the types of domestic violence to get a more accurate depiction of what which violent acts are more concerning and troublesome. The broad umbrella term is intimate partner violence, this was previously called domestic violence but was changed to help be more inclusive to other relationship stages, such as dating. While Johnson originally “lacked the empirical evidence to support” his theory it gave a great starting point (Hardesty, 2009). Like mentioned before intimate terrorism or IT refers to physical and coercive behavior such as manipulation. Violent resistance and situational couple violence were also part of his theory but they are not important to this paper. He went on to say that IPV needed a “multifaceted assessment of coercive control as a relationship pattern”, essentially, he was starting that not all “domestic violence” is equally destructive and harmful to the partner using it or the partner it is being used on (Hardesty,

People will find out the information they are seeking one way or another. The internet is becoming more and more powerful tools for youth to find “answers” to their questions since they feel they can’t come to their elders as the teens feel the adults don’t take them seriously or know what they are going through. This school of thought is due to the fact that it is considered inappropriate to openly talk about our sex lives but how else do we expect the youth to feel comfortable coming to us with their issues if they have no idea we know what it is like. There needs to be a relatability between the older generations and the young generation. This can be accomplished with a new, more inclusive in school sex education where students learn how to combat negative sexual behavior so no student has to feel like being abused in any form especially in the form of intimate terrorism to be acceptable to do to your partner or have done to you. Don’t sit back and allow another child to have to wait until they are beaten down mentally with the furious fists of verbal abuse to learn that isn’t a normal, acceptable type of relationship, let them know they are worth more than