Care for the people around us We have the responsibility
When talking about the group of women who are abused by domestic violence, we first need to realize that the intervention of family psychological crisis here requires psychological intervention on the basis of ensuring the personal safety of the subject, and life safety must always be put first.
Next, we will discuss the psychological adjustment of for women suffering from domestic violence on the basis of the protection of the personal safety of the subject.
Understand the psychological crisis of women suffering from domestic violence
For women who have suffered from domestic violence (especially long-term domestic violence), financial compensation, physical recovery and legal sanctions on perpetrators cannot completely heal their psychological trauma. Previous studies have shown that women who have suffered domestic violence tend to have low self-esteem and are prone to learnt helplessness, which leads to various emotional disorders (depression, anxiety, fear, and post-traumatic stress disorder, etc.). What's more, excessive depression and helplessness will trigger violent behaviors against themselves (self-harm or suicide) or against perpetrators (evil reversal), causing family tragedy and seriously affecting social security.
Therefore, effectively identifying the psychological problems suffered by women suffering from domestic violence and carrying out targeted family psychological intervention will become an important and meaningful content in the assistance system for women suffering from domestic violence.
Intervention Principle
"Accept" Understand their characteristics, listen to their stories, respect their ideas, do not question them, and strive to establish a trust and support relationship with them;
"Avoid secondary harm" focuses on physical and mental trauma of violent women. Family members or supporters should create a professional and safe physical and mental environment for violent women as much as possible. It is also necessary to prevent and avoid secondary harm caused to the violent women by acts such as accusation, questioning, and rejection;
"Self-determination under safety" 's focus on the dilemma of a violent woman is not "leave" or "stay". It is necessary to understand more about the motivation behind the woman, provide sufficient social support based on the reasons, so that the violent women can make their own decisions without any concerns;
"Reduce the pressure" The violent women often face multiple difficulties such as economy, life, and safety. As family members or interveners, they cannot take it for granted what should be done and what can be done, and do not assume their dilemma, and increase the pressure of the violent women.
Psychological adjustment
Recommendation
♥Breaking the wrong perception
Improve the legal awareness of domestic violence among women suffering from domestic violence; improve their awareness of domestic violence, so that women suffering from violence can understand what domestic violence is and the potential harm of violence, and prompt women suffering from violence to re-examine their environment and consider whether to make changes.
♥ recognizes every change it makes
As long as the violent woman is willing to seek help from the outside world and is willing to feedback her situation, it is worthy of recognition and recognition. Requesting for help is a very important change, and it is necessary to continuously enhance the confidence of the violent woman in facing difficulties.
♥Reject guilt and shame
Strengthens the perception that "domestic violence is illegal under any circumstances", so that the violent women understand that domestic violence is not a personal problem, but a family and social problem, and alleviates the guilt and shame of the violent women towards themselves.
♥Reconstruct the personal support network
support network includes personal network, volunteer contact network, mutual assistance network and neighborhood assistance network, etc. These networks can be established by joining the corresponding team, participating in various activities, and actively maintained and expanded. With the support of the Internet, women will have more resources and confidence to deal with difficulties.
♥ Gradually improve self-ability
abilities include but are not limited to family relationship processing skills, stress relief skills, violence protection skills, etc. Interests, hobbies, skills improvement, emotional management, etc. can all be included in the scope of ability improvement. Improved ability can help women who are violent to relieve stress and protect themselves, reduce the psychological and physical harm of domestic violence to women, and enhance their ability to withstand stress.
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Produced by Zhumadian Women's Federation Propaganda Department
Source: Zhicheng Women
