Risk assessment is a vital ingredient in safety planning with abuse victims. The MOSAIC Threat Assessment method is an online risk / threat assessment method developed by Gavin de Becker who wrote the excellent book The Gift Of Fear [Affiliate link], MOSAIC helps the assessor weigh a situation, for example, a situation where an abuse victim… Continue reading Risk Assessment— The MOSAIC method
Category: Victims
how victims are affected by and respond to abuse, awakening from the fog, getting free, healing & recovery, hope
The Back and Forth-ness of Leaving An Abuser
I may have mentioned before that it took me three years to leave my abuser. I tried to leave once but had little resources, no support and four small children, including a newborn. I was convinced to come back out of sheer necessity. For the next three years, I would claw my way out of… Continue reading The Back and Forth-ness of Leaving An Abuser
