BERSAMIN ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL

ACTS OF VIOLENCE

Prepared by:
CECILLE C. CARIAGA
“4 Pic, 1 Word”
EM O T I O N A L
VIOLENCE
P H Y S I C A L
VIOLENCE
V E R B A L
ABUSE
N E G L E C T
 What is Acts of Violence?
Act of violence means the use of
physical force or power, threatened
or actual, that either results in or has
a high likelihood of resulting in injury,
death, psychological harm, or
property damage.
 Types of Violence and Abuse
Physical Violence Verbal Violence
Sexual Violence Financial Violence
Emotional Violence Cultural Violence
Spiritual Violence Neglect
Psychological Violence
 1.Physical Violence occurs when someone uses a
part of their body or an object to control a person’s
actions.

What are physical violence?

beating, burning, kicking, punching, biting,
maiming or killing, or the use of objects or
weapons.
What are the causes?
Stress — from such factors as relationship
difficulties, financial problems, work
demands, drugs and alcohol, job insecurity,
and physical threats — that can heighten the
risk of conflict escalating.
2. Sexual violence occurs when a person is forced to
unwillingly take part in sexual activity.

Non-physical behaviors:
•Exposing a child to pornography.
•Encouraging a child to perform sexual acts.
•Exposing a person's genitals to a child.
•Performing sexual acts in a child's presence.
•Photographing a child in sexual poses.
•Watching a child undress or use the bathroom,
often without the child's knowledge.
Other factors which can be causes of
violence include:
•The influence of one's peers.
•Having a lack of attention or respect.
•Having low self-worth.
•Experiencing abuse or neglect.
•Witnessing violence in the home, community, or

medias.
•Access to weapons.
 3. Emotional violence occurs when someone says or does
something to make a person feel stupid or worthless.

What are emotional violence?

Emotional abuse includes non-physical behaviors
that are meant to control, isolate, or frighten you.
This may present in romantic relationships as threats,
insults, constant monitoring, excessive jealousy,
manipulation, humiliation, intimidation,
dismissiveness, among others.
What are the causes?

The feeling of being powerful and in control gives

some abusers immense pleasure. Abusers may also
derive pleasure from seeing you suffer. Narcissists,
psychopaths, and sadists may be drawn to
emotional abuse because of the pleasure they
take in having power over others or seeing them
suffer (Brogaard, 2020)
4. Psychological violence occurs when someone uses
threats and causes fear in an individual to gain control.

Examples of psychological abuse

Embarrassing you in public or in front of family,
friends, support workers or people you work with.
Calling you names. Threatening to harm you, your
pets, children, or other people who are important to
you.
What are the causes?

Stress and carelessness often lead to the type

of psychological violence that hurts older persons,
especially if they are aware of the fact that they
themselves, because of their health situation, are
somehow a burden on the carer.
5. Spiritual (or religious) violence occurs when
someone uses an individual’s spiritual
beliefs to manipulate, dominate or control
that person.
Spiritual abuse might include:

• Stopping you from practicing your religious or spiritual beliefs

• Forcing you to raise your children according to spiritual beliefs you
don’t agree with
• Forcing you to participate in religious practices that you don't want to
participate in
• Using religious or spiritual leaders or teachings to:
1. Force you to stay in relationship or marriage
2. Excuse violence and abuse
3. Blame your for violence and abuse
4. Encourage you to accept violence and abuse
5. Stop you or your children from getting medical or health care
6. Force or pressure you into a marriage you don't want
• Stopping you from returning home to Country
• Shaming or insulting your religious or spiritual beliefs.
 6. Cultural violence occurs when an individual is harmed
as a result of practices that are part of her or his
culture, religion or tradition.

What are the causes?

Research suggests that cultures can encourage
and permit violence to exist as a response to
various environmental obstacles, such as
widespread resource impoverishment. This can be
seen within various aspects of culture, such as film,
television, music, language, art, and propaganda.
7. Verbal abuse occurs when someone uses language,
whether spoken or written, to cause harm to an
individual.

Examples of verbal abuse include name-calling,

shouting, and accusing. Similarly, relational
aggression includes inflicting emotional pain
through social isolation, group exclusion, and/or
manipulation of relationships.
 What are the causes?
People engage in verbal abuse for a variety of reasons. Family
history, past experiences, personality, and mental illness are a
few factors that can play a role. The goal of the abuser is to
control you by making you feel bad about who you are.

How to prevent?
Ask the person to stop being verbally abusive in a calm voice.
It's possible that the person doesn't know they're being
abusive. Even if they do, calling them out on it can help you
get them to stop. Using a calm, non-judgmental voice, firmly
tell them to stop talking to you this way.
 8. Financial abuse occurs when someone controls an
individual’s financial resources without the person’s
consent or misuses those resources.
Examples of financial abuse
• Borrowing money and not giving it back.
• Stealing money or belongings
• Taking pension payments or other benefit away from
someone.
• Taking money as payment for coming to visit or
spending time together.
You can take some precautions to protect yourself
from financial abuse including:

• making sure you are aware of and follow the

advice of your bank to keep your bank details
secure
• keeping important documents in a safe place
• not keeping large sums of cash at home or in your
purse or wallet
• not signing any documents unless you clearly
understand what you are being asked to sign
• contacting your bank straight away if you notice
any unusual activity
• speaking with a trusted family member, friend or
advisor about any financial decisions you don’t feel
comfortable about
• not giving financial details to someone who has
called you over the phone – even if they claim to be
from a charity you have heard about.
9. Neglect occurs when someone has the responsibility
to provide care or assistance for an individual but
does not.

Physical neglect is the failure to provide for a

child's basic survival needs, such as nutrition,
clothing, shelter, hygiene, and medical care.
Physical neglect may also involve inadequate
supervision of a child and other forms of reckless
disregard of the child's safety and welfare.
How to prevent violence?

Other factors which can be causes of violence

include:
1. The influence of one's peers.
2. Having a lack of attention or respect.
3. Having low self-worth.
4. Experiencing abuse or neglect.
5. Witnessing violence in the home, community, or
medias.
6. Access to weapons.
List of violent acts
Women most often talk about following acts:

• Withdrawing your money

• Limiting you the access to family money
• Destroying common property
• Destroying your personal belongings and your
property
• Taking total control over family matters and
decision-making in the family
• Shifting his responsibilities and duties to you
• Refusing to work, caring for the family
• Requesting your obedience
• Forcing you to do things you do not want
• Behaving as you were his slave, domestic worker
• Persuading you that you are a bad wife
• Persuading you that you are a bad mother
• Using children against you
• Threatening to take your children away or harm them
• Using psychological, physical or sexual violence
against children
• Using children to transfer messages to you
• Not allowing you to work
• Keeping you from seeing your friends or relatives
• Prohibiting you to have telephone conversations
• Not allowing you to leave the house
• Locking you in the house
• Screaming at you
• Insulting
• Insulting the people you love, your family and friends
• Calling names
• Criticism and ridicule of your feelings, opinions, beliefs
• Disregarding and neglecting your opinion
• Disregarding and neglecting your wishes (regarding
money, sex, leisure, home, family...)
• Deliberately causing feelings of guilt
• Persuading you that you are mad or that there is
something wrong with you
• Inducing feelings of fear
• Kicking in doors and boxing in the wall, overturning
furniture
• Threatening to do something if you leave (hurt you,
himself or someone else)
• Pressing you against the wall
• Standing and sitting on you
• Violently lifting you/your children from the ground or
carrying you/your children around
• Banning or disabling you the use of a car
• Causing fear by driving car dangerously, in spite of
your warnings
• Forcing you to do things that you find humiliating
(kneeling, being forced to beg him for money)
• Hitting with hand
• Hitting with objects
• Hitting different objects (cupboard, wall…)
• Kicking
• Pulling hair
• Throwing objects at you
• Choking
• Pushing
• Spitting
• Twisting your arms
• Chasing
• Threatening with weapons
• Threats to beat you, kill you, or destroy you mentally
• Justifying his violent behaviour as if it was
committed by accident
• Justifying his violent behaviour by having been
drunk, under stress...
• Clarifying that he was violent, because you've said
or done something that you should not have
done/said
• Persuading you it’s your fault
• Persuading you that he is violent because he loves
you
• Persuading you that he will improve his behaviour
• Excessive jealousy with constant accusations that you
cheat him, flirt with others...
• Denying having committed violence (sexual,
psychological, physical ...) against you or anyone else
• Severely criticizing your past relationships
• Insulting you with terms like slut, whore...
• Humiliating and criticizing your sexuality and your body
• Touching your body when you do not want him to
• Insisting on taking your clothes off when you do not
want to
• Touching your body in a way that you do not want to
• Forcing you to sexual activity that you do not want (for
example, oral sex, anal intercourse, watching
pornographic movies and magazines, imitating
pornographic movies)
• Forcing you into sex
• Despising and disregarding your feelings in relation to
sexuality
• Having sexual relations with other women although
you have agreed not to have them
• Persuading you that you're bad at sex and making
such comments
• Persuading you that sexual intercourse is his right,
regardless of whether you want it or not
• Requirements that you dress differently (more sexually
or less sexual)
• Forcing you to have sex with someone else
• Forcing you to watch sexual intercourse of someone
else
• Forcing you to use sexual poses that you do not want
• Stalking
• Manipulating with lies
• Claiming that you lie
• Punishing you
• Activity:
Make a reflection about the different kinds of violence
usually occur inside your classroom then site some ways
on how to minimize or prevent those kinds of violence.
THANK
YOU!