Avery Fansler

Dr. Debra Jizi

UWRT 1104
06 November 2016

Double Entry Journal

Citation:

Wekerle, C., E. Leung, AM Wall, H. MacMillan, M. Boyle, N. Trocme, and R. Waechter. "The
Contribution of Childhood Emotional Abuse to Teen Dating Violence among Child
Protective Services-involved Youth." Child Abuse & Neglect 33.1 (2009): 45-58. Print.

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Responses

Childhood maltreatment and adolescent

dating violence are critical public health
concerns, as well as child protection and
human right issues.

Childhood maltreatment could have extremely

bad effects on the future of those who
experience it.

In practice, emotional abuse may be undervalued as distinctly contributing to functional

impairment, as its impact may be
considered within the context of other, more
salient forms, such as sexual abuse,
physical abuse, and physical neglect, where
harm standards are concretized in physical
indicators.

It is, in fact, harder to see the signs of

emotional abuse over other forms, but
emotional abuse can be just as damaging.

However, emotionally abusive acts are

considered to have a high probability of
damaging the childs physical or mental
health, or her/his physical, mental, spiritual,
moral, or social development.

I can see how social development could be a

huge thing that is affected.

Historical, reinforcing close relationships lay

the foundation for future relationship
success. It is not surprising, then, that
maltreated children are more likely to
experience conflict and violence in their
early romantic partnerships in adolescence.

Maltreated children often show difficulty in

forming relationships in general with others,
so I assume that romantic relationships would
be even harder to form.

With less experience, maltreated youth are

more vulnerable in terms of regulating
behavior and recognizing problematic
partner behavior. Thus, dating can provide
an opportunity for maltreated youth to repeat
historical relationship experiences,
characterized by violence and dynamic roles
as victim and/or victimizer, perhaps as a
form of re-enactment (e.g., Wekerle &Wolfe,
1999).

If a maltreated child doesnt know anything

else and all they have been exposed to is a
relationship that has been toxic, that is all
they know which could lead them to believe
that kind of relationship is okay to have, or is
even normal.

Dating violence has an unrecognized

urgency: youth as early as grade 7 report
engaging in dating violence (i.e., one-third of
male and female youth sampled), with
emotional or psychological abuse being
most common (Sears, Byers, & Price,
2007).

I know plenty of girls that started experiencing

emotional abuse as early as the ninth grade,
so the fact that it can start as early as in the
seventh grade doesnt surprise me.

No epidemiological studies of dating

violence among CPS-involved youth exist,
despite being clearly a high-risk group for
relationship dysfunction.

Thats crazy to me that there are no studies,

because teens are still facing these problems.

Normatively, teens do not share with

responsible adults their experiences of
dating violence, being most likely to tell a
friend (Weisz et al., 2007). However,
maltreated youth also have fewer
friendships and friendship experiences from
which to expect support.

Parents need to make sure they are

monitoring theirs kids and if they ever do think
something is wrong, they need to not be
afraid to be open with their child and ask
them if something is wrong.

The lack of an emotional sharing process

among family and friends may further
bolster the negative impact of emotional
abuse on teen dating.

Again, parents need to pay attention to their

children.

Females, relative to males, emerge as a

higher risk group.

From experience, Ive seen more females

than males experience emotional abuse or
dating violence.

It has been suggested that females may be

more vulnerable to dating violence given (a)
their greater representation in childhood
sexual abuse as a risk factor, (b) greater
experiences of physical injury within dating
violence, (c) tendency to date older partners
who may be more predatory, (d) an
emphasis on romantic relationships in
forming an identity, and (e) less of an
emphasis on establishing autonomy via

I feel like females tend to put more of their

emotions into young relationships, therefore
opening the door for the opportunity for them
to get hurt or damaged easier.

personal mastery independent of a

relationship context (e.g., Howard & Wang,
2005; Molidor & Tolman, 1998; Wekerle &
Avgoustis, 2003).
In terms of understanding perpetration,
It makes since that females take more action
female teens emotional style (i.e., feeling
out of the way they feel, rather than guys do it
less guilt, shame about harm to others) was a different way.
related to their report of using aggression
with dating partners, whereas males dating
aggression was related to an externalizing
blame style (Feiring, Deblinger, HochEspada, & Haworth, 2002). Thus, dating
violence is co-morbid with a range of serious
issues.
In emotional abuse, the victim is made to
feel non-valued and their thoughts, feelings,
and behavioral choices are not validated or
are actively condemned.

All of the following true, especially having

feelings condemned. I know I always felt like I
shouldnt be feeling the way I was because it
was wrong, when really it was right but my
partner had it in my head that I shouldnt be
feeling that way.