Types of Power-Based Abuse

Power-based abuse takes many forms

Power-based abuse happens when someone uses power, control, or intimidation to harm someone physically or emotionally.

Threatened or actual physical harm or abuse that happens in a personal, intimate relationship.

Actual, threatened, or attempted sexual contact with another person without that person’s consent.

Violence or abuse that occurs in an intimate romantic relationship.

Actions that make someone feel threatened, oppressed or intimidated regardless of the relationship.

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