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Domestic Violence and abuse rates change at different times of the year depending on various different things, here I will show recent trends throughout the year and some of the causes of these changes along with some possible solutions.
- Understand what effects domestic abuse during the year
- Learn what time of year to focus greatest efforts
- How to plan where to focus efforts
- Understand what type of support is needed at what time of year
11 steps to identify strategies to counter domestic violence in your area:
- Understand who lives and works in your area
- Look at prominent offenders and common factors
- Find out who is looking for help in your area
- What do they need?
- What do they want?
- Learn how to target those who want help
- How to help people in the way they need it
- Decide what education to offer
- How best to provide the information
- Understand basic elements of communication
- Provide basic conflict management tools
Annual Trends
Each Year the statistics vary slightly and on the whole, have followed the same trend.
Enquiries into Domestic Violence increase at the New Year, as the festive cheer dissipates and couples who throughout the year do not spend much time with each other are together for about a week, often with extended families. The New Year is the most common time for reflection upon themselves, what they don’t like about themselves and what they think their relationship should be like.
The statistics increase steadily until about March/April where it peaks, often due to the cold and wet weather conditions couples are staying inside, are paying for Christmas and spend Bank Holidays together. At the end of March beginning of April is where the problems reach its highest, there is a short dip and rise again at the beginning of April and drops slowly.
During summer months, end of June until August it drops almost to its lowest which is believed to be due to the improved weather conditions, individuals feel more able to spend time outside where the sun has proven to increase serotonin levels, which improves mood and happiness.
After summer there’s an increase until about the end of November, where it drops to its lowest, at Christmas, and then rises sharply into the New Year. The lead up to Christmas is generally a cheerful time within families and the problems tend to start when the families are all at home or visiting relatives over the Christmas period, after Christmas is where the most significant increase over a short space of time occurs.
Why should you look at various resources and look at information online?
In the current age many people look for information on the internet, this is useful to you because if you know how, you can find out what they are looking for and where they are geographically located.
Many people prefer the internet to find information especially in the area of abuse as it is anonymous.
Ask yourself:
Are you effective online?
Do you know what people in your area want?
Do you know how to find out?
For More information on eliminating Domestic Violence and Abuse
e-mail: Helen@eternalpotential.com or go to
www.domesticviolencesolution.com
There are many problems faced by people experiencing abuse:
Self esteem/ self perception is one of them.
The only reason we can be affected by someone’s insults and words is if on some level we believe they are right, and we have such a low perception of ourself.
This does not mean that the reason you are being abused is your fault, it does mean that you have the power to change it!
What voices are you running in your head? We all have these voices the difference between someone successful and someone who believes thay are not is what the voices are saying and whether how listen to the negative voices. Some negative voices warn us of danger, others are often that of family and friends trying to keep us safe. The problem with these family and friend voices are they often stop us from making choices that have a perceived risk, without allowing us to make these decisions ourself they may be taking away our opportunity to develop and grow on our own.
further information available on the Bullying & Domestic Violence link.
