Season 2 Episode 18: Multiple Pathways To Harm: An assessment approach that better mirrors the lived experience of survivors

Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel - A podcast by Ruth Reymundo Mandel & David Mandel

Send us a text Phrases like "child witness to violence" or "children exposed to violence" only capture a small slice of how domestic violence perpetrators' behaviors harm children. Assessment frameworks based on these concepts primarily emphasize the traumatic impact of the direct witnessing of acts of physical violence . Coercive control teaches us that it is patterns of entrapping & controlling behaviors which deprive adult & child survivors their basic human right...