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#Power and control wheel driver#
Isolation is a key driver for someone who is controlling. are hearing from women additional information about how their abusive partners are using strategies and tactics to maintain power and control within their relationships in the context of COVID. Now with the global COVID19 pandemic impacting our local communities, our workers at The Family Co.
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The Power and Control Wheel has been adapted many times to increase the understanding of other including post separation abuse, same sex relationship abuse and in more recent decades technology facilitated abuse. Many women have been so brainwashed within their relationships that they are confused by dynamics of the relationships they are living in. This framework continues to be used adapted to support an understanding of domestic violence relationships and has been a useful educational tool for both professionals and for women experiencing domestic violence. The aim of using these tactics is to maintain dominant power and control within the relationship. The rim of the wheel represents the physical and sexual violence or the threat of physical and sexual violence that is used to enforce the underlining tactics to achieve dominance which is represented by the 8 segments of the wheel including using Intimidation, Emotional Abuse, Isolation, Minimising, Denying and Blaming Behaviour, using Children, Male privilege, Economic abuse and Coercion and Threats. What came out of those discussions was a model to explain what was going on in their relationships where the partner was able to control his partner to do what he wanted. The Power and Control Wheel was developed in the early 1980s in Duluth, Minnesota, USA by advocates who talked to many, many women who experienced domestic violence and asked them about the ways in which their partners maintained a hold over them.