INTRODUCTION

Significance of the study The significance of this study is to let all the people especially to the women that they have to be aware of what an intimate violence does. The two forms of violence commonly perpetrated against womenintimate violence and rape will be addressed. Both forms of violence are considered in terms of their impact on womens physical, mental, and spiritual health. Interventions known to be helpful are described and their impact evaluated. Strategies for eradicating conditions in our culture and communities that foster violence are considered. The study will make all the women awake and to be aware of having that intimate violence that fosters them much.

Statement of the problem Intimate violence and abuse are those various forms that have three major categories: physical, sexual, and emotional/psychological. Those are factors that disguises as a humor. Those forms of abuse involve denying the woman to access to money, talking to money and disrupting in some ways. But why then womens are prone to those intimate violence and abuses? It faces that by getting into the relationship we should womens must be careful and we should have the courage to do things in an appropriate way in having a relationship.

In this research, there are such questions that are needed to be answer. Here are those as follows; 1. What are the forms of intimate violence and how does it occur? 2. What is more prominent, the past generations r now? 3. What are the negative effects on womens health? 4. How to prevent this intimate violence? The objectives of this research are: y To identify the warning signs of potential lethality and ways of helping someone who is at risk. y y To identify the ways to prevent intimate violence. To identify the resources present in communities to assist victims of intimate violence, as well as gaps in those resources. y To discuss about the psychological, spiritual, and physical impact on intimate violence and rape. y To identify common deficiencies in the medical response to sexual assault. y Hypothesis The temporary answer to this problem that the forms of intimate violence are the physical, psychological, and spiritual. Those behaviors include throwing objects, pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping, kicking, biting, hitting with a fist or an object, choking, or using a weapon. The reality, and even the threat of repeated physical violence enables a batterer to maintain power and control in a relationship, even when To describe the relationship between women's health.

he is not using violence. The more prominent in having that intimate violence in women is by this generation because in this generation mens are much sarcastic in doing such things that might go into violence. Especially in young ages, they are intimate to have a relationship. It causes many negative effects on womens health. There just identified into my summary. To prevent this problem, it will be mentioned to another of my article.

SUMMARY OF RELATED STUDIES

FORMS OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE

The various forms of intimate violence and abuse can be organized into three major categories: physical, sexual, and emotional/psychological. This behavior includes throwing objects, pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping, kicking, biting, hitting with a fist or an object: choking, or using a weapon, such as a knife or gun. There are several abuses that intimate a violation to women. Those are sexual abuse, emotional/psychological abuse, and verbal abuse. Extreme jealousy is often a psychological form of sexual abuse. Women are often repeatedly and unjustly accused of infidelity, and their social contacts and movements are controlled. In some cases, women are stalked, even after they have left the abusive relationship. CAUSES OF ABUSE
I cant believe he hit me againhe promised that he would stop it after the last time I had to go to the hospital. He says that he just gets so angry that he cant control himself and loses control. Hes such a nice guy; what does she do to make him so mad? These statements reflect the many questions and theories about the causation of intimate violence. The gruesome accounts of intimate that appear so frequently in the national media

prompt the question, How could anyone hurt another person in these ways, let alone someone he says he loves? The need to understand this phenomenon in order to eradicate it has led to the formulation of a number of theories of intimate violence causality. These theories fall into five major categories: biogenic, psychogenic, relational, sociogenic, and integrated. The diversity of both the physical and psychological characteristics identified to date in abusive men suggests that neither biological nor intrapsychic pathology accounts fully for intimate violence.

INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND WOMENS HEALTH Regardless of the form it takes, violence has a negative effect on womens physical, spiritual, and psychological health. a. PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES Womens assaulted by intimates are far more likely than men assaulted by intimates to be injured. Using definition of physical assault that included behaviors from hitting and slapping to using a gun, the most recent report on the prevalence and incidence of physical assault found. The physical injuries from battering can range from relatively minor bruising to injuries requiring hospitalization, major surgery, or death. Sexual abuse is common in violent relationships and includes a myriad of forced and coerced sexual activities, which can occur concurrent with or after physical abuse. Battered women frequently report that they must respond positively to their partners sexual overtures or run elevated risk of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse. The frequency with which women suffer physical abuse during pregnancy is deeply troubling. Homicide is the leading cause of death among pregnant women.

Abused women suffer the effects of chronic stress in addition to the direct effects of violence. They also cause immune system dysfunction, leaving the women vulnerable to opportunistic infections. b. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES Women who have suffered both psychological and physical abuse often report that the psychological violence was worse than the physical, as it left invisible wounds that were far harder to heal and often disrupted their lives profoundly, even after they had left the abusive relationship. People who have lived through intimate partner violence often have a variety of psychological symptoms that are similar to those exhibited by survivors of other kinds of trauma, such as natural disasters and criminal assaults at the hands of strangers. Such symptoms include shock, hyper arousal, confusion, memory problems, and withdrawal, to name just few. Battered women live with the constant threat of violence and with complete unpredictability in their lives. They are also led to believe that they have no alternatives to remaining in the abusive relationship; abusers often intentionally isolate to their partners by interfering with their other relationships and blocking their access to money and even transportation. Such experiences leave battered women feeling shattered, ashamed, guilty, anxious, disconnected, alienated, hopeless, and helpless. Many turn to substance abuse or develop thoughts of suicide. It would be difficult to overestimate the impact battering and other forms of abuse have on womens psyches.

c. SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES

The experience of being a victim of intimate violence has spiritual, as well as physical and psychological, consequences. Such suffering often raises ultimate questions in battered womens minds regarding the meaning of the violence and often the meaning of their lives in general. The ultimate questions can be expressed in many different ways. People of faith typically ask how a loving God, or whatever they conceive as a higher power, can allow them to suffer abuse at the hands of the ones they were led to marry or enter into an intimate relationship with. Religion can be a major resource to a survivor when clergy and congregations, aware of the dynamics of intimate violence and abuse, use their knowledge of scripture and tradition to demonstrate that these do not support violence and abuse. Faith communities can take an active role in prevention by ensuring that domestic violence is addressed in sermons, as well as in religious education programs for adolescent and adult congregants.

DYNAMICS OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE It exposes the societal tendency to blame victims for the oppression they have suffered. It reveals ignorance regarding the choices that battered women make to end the violence in their lives and the lives of their children. It is critical to work to understand these choices in order to intervene effectively at any level. As a society, we must ask ourselves why attention is focused on the actions of the perpetrators of domestic violence.

DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. INTIMATE VIOLENCE- refers to violent or abusive acts that occur within the context of an intimate relationship.

2. SEXUAL ABUSE- refers to both rapes, which involves forced or coerced vaginal, oral, or anal penetration.

3. VERBAL ABUSE- includes ridiculing, name calling, and other forms of calling and other forms of verbal harassment that undermine a persons sense of selfworth.

4. ISOLATION- involves action designed to separate a woman from her networks of support, as well as from the resources she needs to be self-sufficient.

5. HOMICIDE- is the leading cause among pregnant women.

OUTLINE

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OBJECTIVES

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INTRODUCTION

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INTIMATE VIOLENCE a. FORMS OF INTIMATE b. CAUSES OF ABUSE c. INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND WOMENS HEALTH i. PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES ii. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES iii. SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES

IV. DYNAMICS OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE

REFFERENCE

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Intimate Violence

Karen G. Delgado BSN I A University of Perpetual Help System Dalta Las Pias City Philippines

Mrs. Everlinda T. Navarro Faculty English Department College of Arts & Sciences

March 17, 2011