{"id":749,"date":"2019-06-20T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2021-01-15T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:19:15","slug":"what-constitutes-psychological-domestic-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/what-constitutes-psychological-domestic-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"What constitutes psychological domestic abuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since 2015 the law has recognised that psychological or emotional abuse can be just as upsetting and damaging to individuals as physical abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crime Act 2015 made \u2018controlling or coercive behaviour\u2019 in an intimate or family relationship an offence in the UK. Earlier this year, Scottish Parliament also made psychological domestic abuse a crime under their new Domestic Abuse Act.<\/p>\n<p>Physical domestic abuse tends to be much easier to identify that emotional abuse, but that doesn\u2019t make it any less distressing for the victim.<\/p>\n<p>The key behaviours that constitute psychological domestic abuse are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Controlling a person\u2019s day-to-day activities<\/strong>\u2013 this can include, but isn\u2019t limited to, where they go, who they see, and what they wear.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intimidating behaviour<\/strong>\u2013 any behaviour that makes another person feel scared, including shouting, acting aggressively and making threats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Putting someone down<\/strong>\u2013 this includes behaviour that damages a person\u2019s confidence and sense of self-worth like repeatedly putting another person down or calling them names.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Financial control<\/strong>\u2013 this refers to controlling behaviour relating to another person\u2019s employment or finances and can include withholding money or preventing someone from getting a job.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Isolation<\/strong>\u2013 preventing a person from spending time or speaking with their friends and family.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Degrading behaviour<\/strong>\u2013 carrying out activities or enforcing rules that humiliate, degrade or dehumanise a person.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emotional blackmail<\/strong>\u2013 using threats or emotional outbursts to control or manipulate another person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One or two isolated incidents of any of the above behaviours is unlikely to constitute domestic abuse. The behaviours become an offence when they are used repeatedly and calculatedly by a perpetrator, resulting in serious alarm or distress for the victim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are being subjected to <\/strong><a href=\"\/domestic-abuse\"><strong>domestic abuse<\/strong><\/a><strong>and require legal advice or support, give our team of family law specialists here at Lund Bennett a call on 0161 927 3118.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2015 the law has recognised that psychological or emotional abuse can be just as upsetting and damaging to individuals as physical abuse. The Serious Crime Act 2015 made \u2018controlling or coercive behaviour\u2019 in an intimate or family relationship an offence in the UK. Earlier this year, Scottish Parliament also made psychological domestic abuse a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/what-constitutes-psychological-domestic-abuse\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What constitutes psychological domestic abuse?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,175],"tags":[3,12,13,132,169,42,11,290,9,19],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-violence","category-lund-bennett","tag-divorce-law","tag-divorce-laws","tag-divorce-lawyer","tag-domestic-abuse","tag-family-law","tag-family-law-lawyers-altrincham","tag-family-solicitor","tag-financial-control","tag-lund-bennett","tag-lund-bennett-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}