Women Domestic Violence with the Wellness Approach

Women Domestic Violence with the Wellness Approach

Domestic violence against women is a prevalent social issue around the globe. According to statistics on gender-based violence against women, 25% of women are affected by domestic violence in their adulthood. While discussing domestic violence against women, intimate partner violence is a correlated concept, and most victims of intimate partner violence are women. Intimate partners include the men and women in marriage and non-marriage relationships. Factors leading to domestic violence against women have numerous baselines that assume forms of emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual, financial, and intellectual (Swarbrick & Yudof, 2015).  Domestic violence is hardly hit by emotional and intellectual differences in a relationship and will form the major aspect of discussing violence against women. This paper discusses home-based violence against women while considering some of the eight dimensions of wellness, as described by Swarbrick.

Intervention for Population: Women, in general, have faced victimization in the domestic setting because of the roles they play in the domestic environment. Domestic affairs concern most women, and when situations of misunderstandings occur, women experience abuse, torture, and other forms of mistreatments that affect their physical health and self-esteem. 1 in 4 women experiences physical violence in intimate partner relationships leading to injury and stress complications. The violent actions are often committed by the male partner in a relationship, and the events increase the risk of homicide incidents, especially when dangerous weapons such as guns are involved in a domestic scuffle. This population is hardly hit by domestic violence and prompts studies to deduce interventions for preventing incidents from increasing across the country.

Attaining wellness is something that everybody aspires to achieve. Wellness itself is described as the state of being good in mental and physical status. Wellness is something that people continuously strive to acquire and improve in their daily lives. However, there is no one right way to acquire all eight components of wellness. As described in the model, wellness is attained emotionally, environmentally, physically, financially, intellectually, occupationally, socially, and spiritually. One component of wellness may supersede the other component to the advantage of the person or cause harm to them and the next person (Swarbrick & Yudof, 2015). The factors leading to prevalent cases of domestic violence are caused by a deficiency in either one or more of the components of human wellness of a conflict of interest in the components of wellness.

Emotion is one of the eight dimensions of wellness that appears to be the greatest cause of domestic violence. Emotion refers to the ability to cope effectively in life and establishing satisfying relationships. Lack of a satisfactory relationship from friends and intimate partners causes emotional abuse, which is one of the causative factors of domestic violence. Emotional abuse does not exhibit physical scars, but it can have a tremendous impact on a person’s mental and well-being (Rakovec-Felser, 2014). By the fact that married couples and intimate partners portray high levels of emotions in their associations, a gap, or hurt into one emotional well-being can lead to violence. Emotional abuse leads to anxiety and depression, which may eventually lead to murder or suicide. Explaining domestic violence using the first dimension of the Swarbrick model explains the gaps in a person’s emotional well-being that lead to domestic violence against women. Naturally, women are discovered to be more emotional than men. Whenever the emotional well-being of a woman is tampered with, there is a greater likelihood of the action causing significant harm in the relationship (Rakovec-Felser, 2014).

Emotion in the intimate partner relationship can result in violence because such relationships are often built on emotion as the strongest binding factor. It is important for partners in a relationship to detect instances of emotional abuse easily and institute immediate solutions to prevent turning into violent situations. This often begins when one partner blames the other for all the problems occurring in their relationship. This is a sign that the emotional being of one partner is experiencing harm that is likely to cause violence in the relationship. Most cases and reports of domestic violence have been caused by emotional imbalance and abuse, causing a reaction from one of the partners (Kaur & Garg, 2008). Emotional needs may experience problems in a relationship and often require proper redress from a third party or a counselor to prevent adverse effects of the problems on the relationship.

Emotional harm may be negative to harm a partner in a relationship in an instance where one partner is constantly comparing them with other people. This comparison may lower their self-esteem and worth. Partners often want to realize their worth in a relationship. If their intimates purport to degrade their worth, emotional differences begin to shake the shreds of togetherness and love that once stabilized the relationship. Harm on an emotional bell-being of a partner often places the other in a bad mood. Obviously, bad moods are not a good phenomenon and may simply cause violence and harm to the other partners. An emotionally irritated partner can embarrass their fellow in public. Such embarrassment may not have an immediate response from the partner. The response is often futile because scuffles often ensue in private (Kaur & Garg, 2008).

Affecting a partner’s emotions can also be experienced in a situation where one partner exercises an extreme degree of control over the actions of the other partner. This extreme control can be termed as a dictatorship and denies the partners the freedom they deserve in the house or elsewhere. This can be evident in instances such as controlling another partner’s finances or dictating on another partner’s mode of dressing. This level of dictation often results in an emotional impact on the affected partners, causing name-calling and other reactions to defend their decisions in a relationship. Generally, emotional harm causes reactions that trigger violence in a relationship (Tsirigotis & Łuczak, 2016). It is important to realize that emotional harm may result in physical harm, which consequently leads to physical in-wellness.

The intellectual difference is another wellness issue that significantly harms a relationship and leads to domestic violence. Intellectual wellness in a relationship is the act of recognizing creative abilities and deriving ways of expanding knowledge and skills. Several intimate partner violence incidents have involved intellectual issues related to reasoning and planning issues between the partners. Partners may differ intellectually because of their level of education or because of the structural and financial plans in their family. As such, intellectual differences may arise when one partner feels that their dimension of thinking is the best and does not want to balance their reasoning with the next partner (Tsirigotis & Łuczak, 2016). Critical thinking and common sense issues may cause violence between partners if a decision is not arrived at in the right way. Intellectual differences may trigger emotions if the arguments and differences persist.

In most relationships, the opinion of the male partner often bears the right path as opposed to that of a woman. As a result, there are often high changes of a problem, especially when the female partner feels unflavored in the decision of the man. Such measures of reasoning lead to an unhealthy argument. No partner wants to be defeated in an argument, and this risks a violent action. Intellectual wellness is an important factor in any person, especially those in a relationship. No one wants to feel intellectually dwarfed. People will always want to have their opinions get through and argument, and when this does not happen, an unpleasant moment likely to be violent occurs and affects the partners. According to Swarbrick, the eight dimensions of wellness may not balance and may not be evident in all the aspects of a person’s well-being, but a class or a deficiency in a relevant component may result in a violence occurrence (Swarbrick & Yudof, 2015).

Women’s domestic violence is a concept that is yet to a complete address from social and cultural perceptions. Conventionally, a man is regarded as the head of the social structures. This ideology has been absorbed conceptually and has also resulted in a perception that men are physically and intellectually stronger than women. It is important to understand that the causes of violence against women are a combination of the cultural and social upbringing of the male and the female genders (Rakovec-Felser, 2014). The society had portrayed a man as an emotionally strong being while a woman is portrayed to be emotionally weak being. While men suffer the violence of a certain degree, they remain silent, whereas women come out instantly and show their emotions to trigger a response. This tendency has placed the society to consider violence against women as a critical area of interest.

Domestic violence against women is a topic that has never found a complete solution to global social issues. The factors causing violence in a relationship have tried to find an explanation from the eight dimensions of wellness, but much effort is still needed in ensuring that a long-lasting solution regarding domestic violence is attained. Many of the factors that lead to disagreement and violence in intimate partner relationships are psychological in nature, and once the society realizes on the ways of treating the psychological sense, the journey to ending the domestic violence could begin seeing the light. The society requires reframing its mode of analyzing and resolving social problems in order to arrive at the best solution for the benefit of every individual.