ABOUT THE VICTIMS

L.P. RAQUEL A. BARRÓN ALAMILLA

It can be considered as violence any act that violates another
human being’s will.
How do people
become Prevalence studies on child abuse and neglect
involving victim surivors lead to identify potential
a potential victims of any type of violence in the adulthood.

victim?
 Less self-confidence

Less joy of living

Less hope for the future

Maltreated Early death

child in Suicide

adulthood Addictive behaviors (smoking, drinking alcohol or doing drugs)

tends to Obesity

Sexual issues
show… Depression

Poor health (heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.)

History of mental illness

 The drama triangle
Unless the core wounds are healed, most of us spend
our lives busy playing either savior, victim, perpetrator,
or – very often – all three.
 • The dramatic triangle of Karpman is a
psychological and social model that
proposes three habitual roles that
people usually take in a situation:
• The person who considers himself or
accepts the role of victim.
The drama triangle • The person who coerces the
pressures, or persecutes the victim.
• The lifeguard, or rescuer who
intervenes, apparently with a desire
to help the weaker, or improve the
situation
Focusing ourselves on the dynamic of victim and
perpetrator, the research evidence available
considers the links between being a victim of
childhood maltreatment and going on to
experience violence in later life, either as a victim
or a perpetrator of collective, self-directed or
interpersonal violence.

This dynamic tends to obey a pattern.

 The cycle of abuse is a
social cycle theory developed in
1979 by Lenore E. Walker to
explain patterns of behavior in an
abusive relationship.
 • Tension begins to rise between the
victim and its abuser until they
eventually lash out with aggressive or
Phase 1: violent behavior – either physical,
Abuse verbal, or both.
• This is a power play designed to show
‘who is the boss’ – to make the victim
feel afraid and intimidated by them.
 • After the abuse, they show signs of
feeling guilty and remorseful. But this is
not over what they have done.
Phase 2: • It is often a hidden display of concern
that they could be caught and face
Guilt consequences – masked as guilt for
harming the victim.
• Other times, they are acting in order to
deceive and psychologically control you.
 • The abuser rationalises what he or she
has done and convince the victim that
the blame lies elsewhere.
• They make up excuses about why they
Phase 3: behaved abusively, or even blame the
Excuses victim for it – anything to avoid taking
responsibility for their actions.
• By painting this image of innocence,
they instil a false sense of trust in the
victim.
 • This is where the infatuation and love
the victim feels are exploited by the
abuser.
• They do whatever they can to maintain
control and keep the victim in the
Phase 4: relationship – this includes acting like
nothing has ever happened, behaving
Normal behavior like they are ‘past it’, or turning on the
charm.
• The victim is led to believe that the
abuser really has ‘changed’ for the
better and that their behaviour was just
a lapse. But this is far from the truth.
 • At this stage, the abuser thinks about
what the victim have done wrong and
how they’ll berate he or her for it – all
Phase 5: with the intention of reasserting their
Fantasy dominance and wearing down theis
self-confidence and independence.
• They begin to turn this fantasy into a
plan that they’ll enact in reality.
 • The abuser will find fault in the way the
victim have done something, either by
setting he or her by capitalising on an
opportune moment where you make a
mistake (or where they can twist the
Phase 6: truth to make it seem that way).
Set-up • In this situation, they can justify the
abuse “because they can shift the
blame onto the victim and make him or
her believe it”.
• It sets into motion the ‘excuses’ part of
the cycle.
 • As we’ve mentioned, many people do not
know what it violence is nor the cycle they
Did you know might be trapped on.
about this?
• If they are victims they do not know that they
are and unfortunately social networks do not
Does people help to inform properly and they even promote
know? violent behavior patterns.
 • Create a PlayBuzz of your choice in order to develop a
product that helps to identify one of the following:
1. Signs of abuse in case they are victims
2. Signs that someone the participant knows is being
abused
3. What to do in case the participant is a victim
So, let us do 4. What to do if the participant know someone
something that’s being abused

about it! • It can be either an infographic or a quiz, use your

creativity.
• In teams, please!
• Due date: Monday 12th by 23:59 p.m.
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