An emotionally abusive relationship can become evident during couple's therapy. Helping a victim find safety and rebuild their sense of self is key.

Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

Writing for HuffPost UK, solicitor general Ellie Reeves MP says the law has transformed the way violence against women and ...

Coercive control and the severe harm it causes to those targeted by an intimate partner gets much-needed attention by new laws making it illegal in a few U.S. states. It’s now recognized that the ...

Domestic violence charity Women’s Aid is highlighting the effects of coercive control in a new print and out-of-home campaign, "Not model's own", which subverts the style of a fashion campaign to ...

Fewer than one in six 16-year-olds have heard of coercive control and know what it means, a new study suggests. The research from Ulster University (UU), Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and the ...

Coercive control is a pattern of behaviour which can include isolation, intimidation, sexual coercion and cyberstalking. Survivors have described coercive control as "intimate terrorism" or "living in ...

New South Wales will be the first Australian jurisdiction to criminalise coercive control despite opposition from domestic violence groups about the way the offence is defined. The bill makes coercive ...

'Domestic abuse' is a scary term. It is something that happens in news stories and books, films and soap operas. It is angry men raising fists at defenceless women. It is hidden bruises; it is excuses ...

Just two people have been sentenced under landmark new coercive control laws in five months, with more than 150 victims still ...

There's no shortage of discussion over the impending New York trial of rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. One phrase you won't hear during the legal process? "Coercive control." Combs was arrested in ...