Coercive Control

“Coercive Control” by Evan Stark
What do we experience as providers: compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, headaches, sleeplessness, agitation, nightmares, hopelessness, and anger? This affects our ability to connect with people, put up barriers to those we are trying to help.
Questions:
1. What happened to her/him?
2. What are the barriers to follow through with treatment?
The retreat was nice, although I remain separated from the group as usual. It was interesting to meet people who work in this field. My presentations were uninteresting I think. I did get food responses from the second one overall. But I remained tense about the whole thing overall even after a couple of days.

Annual Retreat for the VSDVAA

Teen Dating Violence Prevention – this is more about intervention, programs in school in school about what to do if…
Analysis of case of a girl going to a party. Prevention would really have been parents checking up on where the child is going. This would really have prevented the scene. Prevention needs to start with us, our generation as parents teaching children from the beginning with consistent messages between school and home. This is the gap, a decrease in parenting skills. This is what needs to be addressed.
1. Perceived threat – ongoing
2. Management of daily activities – interrupts problem solving and decision making.
3. Altered identity
4. Entrapment
5. Disempowerment