| A | B |
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| Domestic Violence | Violent behavior that occurs among family members, usually in the same household. |
| Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) | Violent behavior that occurs among partners in a romantic relationship. |
| Situational Violence | Sporadic intimate partner violence that arises from particular circumstances. |
| Intimate Terrorism | A consistent and pervasive pattern of intimate partner violence. |
| Child Maltreatment | A general term encompassing the many ways that parents abuse and neglect their children. |
| Behavioral/Learning | Parents maltreat children because they learn over time that the rewards outweigh its risks. |
| Cognitive | Parents maltreat children because they think it is warranted or necessary. |
| Psychopathological | Parents maltreat their children because they are mentally ill. |
| Family Environment/System | Parents maltreat their children because the family is dysfunctional overall. |
| Surveillance Bias | The tendency for past victims of child matreatment to be under great suspicion of perpetrating child maltreatment when they become parents themselves. |
| Elder Abuse | A general term encompassing the many ways that caregivers can abuse and neglect elderly family members. |
| Material Exploitation | The misappropriation of a victim's money or property by a caregiver. |
| Factors in Heightened Risk for Elder Abuse | Vulnerability, old age, and a trust relationship. |
| Relationship of Trust | Any relationship in which there is a reasonable expectation that each person cares for the best interests of the other. |
| Four Categories of Child Maltreatment | Physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. |
| Three Categories of IPV Theories | Behavioral, social learning, and feminist. |
| True | 96% of all IPV murder-suicide victims are women. T or F? |
| False - age 25. | The majority of Americans who have experienced IPV in their lifetimes first experienced it by the age of 15. |
