Making the Invisible Visible: Assisting Counsellors to Understand and Spot Coercive Control

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cityu.schoolSchool of Health and Social Sciences
cityu.siteVancouver, BC
cityu.site.countryCanada
dc.contributor.authorNeill, Joanna
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-23T23:09:55Z
dc.date.available2021-12-23T23:09:55Z
dc.date.issued2021-12
dc.description.abstractCoercive control is gradually coming into public awareness as the underlying mechanism of male to female partner abuse. Proposed by Stark (2012) as a much-needed reframing of the concept of domestic abuse, coercive control is being recognized as a crime against women's liberty, freedom, autonomy, and dignity, returning the focus of men's abuse of women away from the physical incident model and back to its roots as a complex pattern of domination and subjugation of women by men. However, the understanding of domestic abuse as physical assault remains dominant in society and in the counselling field. Counsellors need to understand domestic abuse as coercive control and be able to spot it in the counselling room. The dominant understanding of domestic abuse as physical assault means most abuse assessments do not successfully identify coercively controlling behaviours and counsellors are likely to miss the signs. Using an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experiences of five women who were being coercively controlled and sought the help of couple counsellors, 15 emergent themes were discovered. From these themes, 6 observable signs of coercive control were identified, as well as 8 key learnings that may assist counsellors in understanding and spotting coercively controlling relationship dynamics.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/1655
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectcoercive control
dc.subjectcouple counselling
dc.subjectdomestic abuse
dc.subjectinterpretative phenomenological analysis
dc.subjectpatriarchy
dc.titleMaking the Invisible Visible: Assisting Counsellors to Understand and Spot Coercive Control
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Counselling
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