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Violence and Risk Taking Behaviour<br />

Public Profile<br />

Unit #3 Activity #5<br />

Teaching Learning Strategy #4<br />

Catholic Profile<br />

Unit #2 Activity #3<br />

Teaching Learning Strategy N/A<br />

Teacher Resource (Background Information for Student Assignment)<br />

The following provides the teacher with some background information related to<br />

characteristics of violent relationships vs. non-violent relationships.<br />

Power and Control<br />

The following outlines characteristics of a relationship based on power and control. The<br />

concepts addressed in this chart are key to understanding what happens in abusive<br />

relationships, thereby providing students with the insight on what to avoid.<br />

Violent (Physical and Sexual) Relationships Based on Power and Control<br />

Using Coercion and<br />

Threats.<br />

• making and/or carrying out threats to do something to hurt<br />

partner<br />

• threatening to leave partner, to commit suicide, to report<br />

him/her to welfare<br />

• making partner drop charges<br />

• making partner do illegal drugs<br />

Using Intimidation • making partner afraid by using looks, actions, gestures<br />

• smashing things<br />

• destroying partnerÕs property<br />

• abusing pets<br />

• displaying weapons<br />

Using Emotional Abuse • putting partner down<br />

• making partner fee bad about him/herself<br />

• calling partner names<br />

• making partner think he/she is crazy<br />

• playing mind games<br />

• humiliating partner<br />

• making partner feel guilty<br />

Using Isolation • controlling what partner does, who he/she sees and talks to,<br />

what he/she reads, where he/she goes<br />

• limiting partnerÕs outside involvement<br />

Minimizing, Denying and<br />

Blaming<br />

• using jealousy to justify actions<br />

• making light of the abuse and not taking partnerÕs concerns<br />

about it seriously<br />

• saying the abuse did not happen<br />

• shifting responsibility for abusive behaviour<br />

• saying partner caused it<br />

<strong>Grade</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>Healthy</strong> <strong>Active</strong> <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Education</strong> (PPL30), Module #3 Violence and Risk Taking Behaviour<br />

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