Five Minutes or Less for Health Weekly Tip: Assess Your Relationships
Like all violence, intimate partner violence (IPV) is a learned behavior that can be changed or prevented. Abuse includes physical abuse, sexual abuse, threats, and emotional abuse. Often, IPV starts with emotional abuse. This behavior can progress to physical or sexual abuse.
IPV is linked to harmful health behaviors as well. Victims may try to cope with their trauma in unhealthy ways. This includes smoking, drinking, taking drugs, or having risky sex. Take a few minutes to determine if you or others you care about are in an unhealthy relationship, and get help if needed.
- Assess your relationships to make sure they are healthy.
- Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) to learn about available services for victims and perpetrators of IPV and their children.
Learn More
Break the Silence: Stop the Violence Video
Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
Electronic Aggression. Technology and Youth Violence
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
1-800-787-3224 (TDD)
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Page last modified: September 27, 2011
Page last reviewed: September 27, 2011