The impact of prior abuse on women's use of aggression with intimate partners

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paige Hall Smith ◽  
Jacquelyn W. White
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partners ◽  
The Impact

Women’s Advocates and Shelter Residents: Describing Experiences of Working and Living in Domestic Violence Shelters

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 3034-3053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
Domestic Violence Shelters ◽  
Abusive Partners ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Domestic violence shelters are a crucial service for women who have experienced violence and abuse from intimate partners. Despite research that demonstrates the effectiveness of shelter stays, little is known about the practices that occur and the interventions offered. Using data from qualitative interviews with six women’s advocates and six shelter residents, the article explores and documents the advocates’ practices and the impact of the shelter stay on women residents. The women’s advocates report that they provide women residents time to become comfortable, empower them to set their own goals and make their own decisions, and then help them to connect to other community resources. They also stressed that shelters are homes and they want to create environments within their shelters that are nonchaotic and violence free, so that the interactions encountered in these settings are different from women residents’ experiences with their abusive partners. The women residents reported receiving interventions that were similar to the descriptions that the advocates provided about their practice. For these women, being able to feel comfortable, safe, cared for, respected, and not judged was central to feeling helped during their shelter stay. Although the interview accounts revealed the importance of the relationship between advocates and residents, the findings also demonstrate that the environment within these shelters is equally significant to determining the quality of residents’ experiences.

Toxic Relationships: The Experiences and Effects of Psychopathy in Romantic Relationships

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110491
Author(s):  
Adelle Forth ◽  
Sage Sezlik ◽  
Seung Lee ◽  
Mary Ritchie ◽  
John Logan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Psychopathic Traits ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Online Support Groups ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Limited research exists on the impact of psychopathy within romantic relationships. We examined mental and physical health consequences reported by intimate partners of individuals with psychopathic traits. Additionally, we explored whether psychopathy severity and coping impacted the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms. Four hundred fifty-seven former and current intimate partners of individuals with psychopathic traits were recruited from online support groups. Victims reported a variety of abusive experiences and various negative symptomatology involving emotional, biological, behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal consequences. Psychopathy severity and maladaptive coping were significantly related to increased PTSD and depression, while adaptive coping was only related to decreased depression. Regression analyses revealed that experiencing many forms of victimization predicted increased PTSD and depression symptoms. Examining the specific consequences experienced by intimate partners of individuals with psychopathic traits can aid the development of individualized treatment interventions aimed at symptom mitigation, recovery, and prevention of future victimization.

Courthouse Claims

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Dov Fox
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Reproductive Outcomes ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
The Third ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
The Impact

Existing legal claims have a hard time trying to remedy reproductive wrongs, but procreation patients and their committed partners should be able to seek meaningful recovery for professional negligence that thwarts their legitimate family plans. I distinguish three kinds of unwanted reproductive outcomes: (1) no baby, where victims had sought one; (2) any baby, where the goal was none at all; and (3) a particular type of baby, where parents undertook efforts to have one with different traits. Our legal system should recognize each of these complaints—that’s what this chapter recommends. The first tort action that I propose is for negligently frustrated attempts to pursue pregnancy or parenthood; the second concerns dashed efforts to avoid those activities and roles; the third is for offspring selection gone amiss. I call these the rights of procreation deprived, procreation imposed, and procreation confounded. Each reflects the responsibilities that certain individuals or institutions owe to preserve the reproductive interests of others. Formal obligations in matters of pregnancy and parenthood is what sets professional negligence apart from otherwise similar transgressions at the hand of intimate partners. Fertility doctors and other healthcare practitioners assume practice-specific duties of care that nonspecialists do not. Committed partners should be entitled to sue for reproductive negligence as well, not just patients who undergo medical treatment themselves. Extending procreation rights to this committed partner recognizes the impact these wrongs have on their family plans and the life they share—courts should allow recovery for that one, clearly identifiable, additional claimant.

Formation of Lunar Craters and Bright Rays as a Result of Meteorite Impacts

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
K. P. Stanyukovich ◽  
V. A. Bronshten
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Charge ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Meteorite Impacts ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Lunar Craters ◽  
The Impact

The phenomena accompanying the impact of large meteorites on the surface of the Moon or of the Earth can be examined on the basis of the theory of explosive phenomena if we assume that, instead of an exploding meteorite moving inside the rock, we have an explosive charge (equivalent in energy), situated at a certain distance under the surface.

The Geosciences Applied to Lunar Exploration

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 169-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Green
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
Probable Mechanism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lunar Exploration ◽  
Geological Model ◽  
Apply Geophysics ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
The Impact

The term geo-sciences has been used here to include the disciplines geology, geophysics and geochemistry. However, in order to apply geophysics and geochemistry effectively one must begin with a geological model. Therefore, the science of geology should be used as the basis for lunar exploration. From an astronomical point of view, a lunar terrain heavily impacted with meteors appears the more reasonable; although from a geological standpoint, volcanism seems the more probable mechanism. A surface liberally marked with volcanic features has been advocated by such geologists as Bülow, Dana, Suess, von Wolff, Shaler, Spurr, and Kuno. In this paper, both the impact and volcanic hypotheses are considered in the application of the geo-sciences to manned lunar exploration. However, more emphasis is placed on the volcanic, or more correctly the defluidization, hypothesis to account for lunar surface features.

Asteroid and Comet Impact Speeds upon Mars: Significance for Panspermia and the Supply of Organics

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 197-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Steel
Keyword(s):  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Regions Of Interest ◽  
Significant Fraction ◽  
Organic Chemicals ◽  
Impact Speed ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWhilst lithopanspermia depends upon massive impacts occurring at a speed above some limit, the intact delivery of organic chemicals or other volatiles to a planet requires the impact speed to be below some other limit such that a significant fraction of that material escapes destruction. Thus the two opposite ends of the impact speed distributions are the regions of interest in the bioastronomical context, whereas much modelling work on impacts delivers, or makes use of, only the mean speed. Here the probability distributions of impact speeds upon Mars are calculated for (i) the orbital distribution of known asteroids; and (ii) the expected distribution of near-parabolic cometary orbits. It is found that cometary impacts are far more likely to eject rocks from Mars (over 99 percent of the cometary impacts are at speeds above 20 km/sec, but at most 5 percent of the asteroidal impacts); paradoxically, the objects impacting at speeds low enough to make organic/volatile survival possible (the asteroids) are those which are depleted in such species.

Organic Syntheses During the Impact of a Comet with a Gaseous Planet

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
Cesare Guaita ◽  
Roberto Crippa ◽  
Federico Manzini
Keyword(s):  
Polymeric Material ◽  
Molecular Form ◽  
Parent Compound ◽  
Blue Filter ◽  
Organic Syntheses ◽  
The Impact

AbstractA large amount of CO has been detected above many SL9/Jupiter impacts. This gas was never detected before the collision. So, in our opinion, CO was released from a parent compound during the collision. We identify this compound as POM (polyoxymethylene), a formaldehyde (HCHO) polymer that, when suddenly heated, reformes monomeric HCHO. At temperatures higher than 1200°K HCHO cannot exist in molecular form and the most probable result of its decomposition is the formation of CO. At lower temperatures, HCHO can react with NH3 and/or HCN to form high UV-absorbing polymeric material. In our opinion, this kind of material has also to be taken in to account to explain the complex evolution of some SL9 impacts that we observed in CCD images taken with a blue filter.

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