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Helping Children Thrive: Supporting Woman Abuse Survivors as Mothers

Power & Control Wheel

This model helps some women put names to the behaviour of an abusive partner.

This model was developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project.

Many variations of this model have been collected and summarized by the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence.

Find more information on domestic violence and abusive relationships in these two new resources from 2008.

Helping an Abused Woman: 101 Things to Know, Say & Do

Helping Abused Women in Shelters: 101 Things to Know, Say & Do