Welcome back.
This week, we talked about different types of violence.
And I thought it was just really enlightening when you're talking about
violence to look at how violence, you know, really can be self directed or
collective across the lifespan.
What did you think, Pamela?
>> Exactly. I think that's you
know when we were organizing this course, we did want to try and
reach an understanding of variety of violence.
But this week really emphasized that, so that we have, you know,
youth violence, elder violence, as Dave said, radical is the last course.
And we also talked about, you know,
sexual violence, other forms of violence, intimate partner violence.
So, I think this week really introduces the range of violence,
as well as providing different authorities perspectives on the types of
violence that they study.
>> And I thought was interesting,
we did have several from public health backgrounds.
And so, I think the public health approach to violence came up several times.
That's not to say the only approach to violence.
And towards the end of the course, we'll talk about other approaches to violence.
But, public health approach, you know, really identifying the problem,
looking at what are the rates of violence in these different categories.
Looking at the risk factors for perpetration and victimization, and
then when you see those risk factors or
associations seen, how do you develop interventions?
>> And that's what I, I really found exciting, not being a public health
person, was that the public health approach model that was presented to this
week really showed how taking a larger approach can help us prevent violence.
And if we can identify the risk factors and, and create models of
how to intervene, we don't have to feel so helpless in the face of violence.
I agree.
So Debra, you're an expert in sort of identifying risk factors and
overlap of different cycles.
Could you speak a little more to what people said this week on that topic?
>> So I think when you're looking at violence, you know, as a whole, you can
look at things like child maltreatment, and see that those who experience child
maltreatment then can go on to be more likely to be victims or perpetrators of
things like partner violence or youth violence, really perpetuating the cycle.
There's also risk factors like mental health symptoms or substance abuse
that you can see across different types of perpetrators and survivors as well.
So I think looking at what those common characteristics are you can
prevent violence at a bigger picture.
>> And, and what you've just said is I think really interesting in
that there isn't any direct equation in terms of,
ever having experienced child abuse, and then becoming a perpetrator.
You could also become a victim, or neither of those things.
But that they're. >> Absolutely.
>> But there are cycles.
But then they're not easily pinpointed from one to the other.
>> Absolutely.
And with, you know, like elder maltreatment you know, dependence on
a caregiver, as well as a caregiver that might have some economic strain, things
like that, you could easily see that in partner violence perpetration as well.
So just looking for some of those common characteristics in the overlap.
>> And if I, now that you just said that,
one of the things that struck me is, I think we are tend to
be uncomfortable with the connection between intimacy and violence.
But I did note that an elder views having the caregiver living in the, in the home
with the person that they're looking after you know, is one of the risk factors.
And I think that as with IPV partner violence I think
that also speaks to how we like to think of violence as happening else where.
And many of these forms of violence that we discuss this week we see that violence
really is, is an issue to do with intimacy as much as out there in the public.
And that makes it incredibly difficult to talk about, to deal with, and, and
sometimes to prevent.
But it also makes it much more important that we do so.