-Nearly half of all women and men in the U.S. report psychological aggression by an intimate partner over their lives (according to the CDC). -Among people who experienced coercive control, close to ...

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

While there is growing understanding around the use of coercive control in intimate partner violence, less is known about how children experience this kind of abuse. Coercive control is a pattern of ...

In this post, I'll explore key therapeutic principles for assessing justified or unjustified family estrangement. Some name this "alienation"; however, as an attachment-focused therapist, I prefer to ...

Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If something was not to his liking ...

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The UK was the first country in the world to criminalise coercive control. So why are we still not paying attention to this insidious form of violence? We were in the smoking area, a place where ...

Horry County Senator Stephen Goldfinch recently introduced a bill aimed at criminalizing coercive control in South Carolina. In April, Goldfinch sponsored S.588 to create the offense of coercive ...