@SallyRMelb The general understanding of trauma and the resulting initiatives focusing heavily on psychological symptoms resulting from the witnessing or experience of physical violence. While more nuanced understandings exist and are practice including trauma with profound neglect....
@SallyRMelb ...they are not the dominant interpretations. Frameworks that center coercive control need additional pathways to harm than just psychological one. We need broader understandings of impact on functioning like effects on housing, employment, family and social relations, education
@SallyRMelb While these are common understandings of impact of domestic violence in the women's sector, they are not always brought into focus in trauma focused interventions which pathologize, psychologize & ultimately personalize the impact versus seeing it in a broader social context.
@SallyRMelb Trauma focused interventions are focused on what has already occurred, not as good about what is currently happening, e.g. post separation coercive control and doesn't always including broader patterns of control that don't involve physical violence.
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