Describe the various power plays that are used by batters as shown on the Power and Control Wheel. How can interventions be individualized for men of various personality types?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

• Using intimidation: Making victim afraid by using looks, actions, gestures.
• Using emotional abuse: Putting the victim down, making her feel bad about herself, name-calling.
• Using isolation: Controlling what the victim does, who she sees and talks to, what she reads, where she goes.
• Minimizing, denying and blaming: Making light of the abuse and not taking her concerns about it seriously, saying the abuse did not happen.
• Using children: Making the victim feel guilty about the children, using the children to relay messages.
• Using male privilege: Treating her like a servant, making all the big decisions, acting like the "master of the castle."
• Using economic abuse: Preventing her from getting or keeping a job, making her ask for money, giving her an allowance.
• Using coercion and threats: Making and/or carrying out threats to do something to hurt her; threatening to leave her, to commit suicide, to report her to welfare.
• For maximum effectiveness, individualized programming is required that is tailored to the batters' personality characteristics, including character or mental disorders and whether or not substance abuse is involved.