Let's Go There

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This episode is the final of a six-part series exploring abuse in relationships. Dr Ava Kanyeredzi (Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology at the University of East London) and Rev. Kim Bacchus (Ordained Minister, Strategic Development Coach and Trainer), both lead members of the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum (www.bcdaf.org.uk) discuss introduce financial abuse, a form of domestic abuse where someone uses money to control their partner/spouse. This could include the abuser not giving their partner/spouse sufficient money to look after the household, overspending or running up debts in partner/spouse’s name, not sharing and controlling their wage, refusing to do paid work when fully able to do so or making the person lose their job.

If you would like more information about financial/economic abuse, please click on the following links:

What is economic abuse? - Surviving Economic Abuse

The Reinvent You After Abuse Foundation

To find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse, please use the following link or helpline:

Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Refuge National Domestic Abuse: 0808 2000 247

If your church would benefit from domestic abuse training, please visit: www.bcdaf.org.uk/training 

Dr Ava Kanyeredzi (Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology at the University of East London) and Rev. Kim Bacchus (Ordained Minister, Strategic Development Coach and Trainer), both lead members of the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum (www.bcdaf.org.uk) discuss coercive control, which underpins most forms of domestic abuse. Coercive control can be at first misidentified for romantic interest, love, being charming and caring but develops into checking on a person throughout the day, wanting to know who they are with, what they are doing, dictating the clothes they wear and/or belittling a person in front of their children.

To find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse, please use the following link or helpline:

Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Refuge National Domestic Abuse: 0808 2000 247

If your church would benefit from domestic abuse training, please visit: www.bcdaf.org.uk/training 

Dr Ava Kanyeredzi (Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology at the University of East London) and Rev. Kim Bacchus (Ordained Minister, Strategic Development Coach and Trainer), both lead members of the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum (www.bcdaf.org.uk) discuss physical abuse, which is often the last resort when all attempts to control the person have failed or the person experiencing abuse decide to either leave the relationship or retaliate. Most people think that domestic abuse is only physical and with visible signs of injury, but perpetrators are skilled at exacting bruises that will not be visible to others. 

To find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse, please use the following link or helpline:

Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Refuge National Domestic Abuse: 0808 2000 247

If your church would benefit from domestic abuse training, please visit: www.bcdaf.org.uk/training 

Dr Ava Kanyeredzi (Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology at the University of East London) and Rev. Kim Bacchus (Ordained Minister, Strategic Development Coach and Trainer), both lead members of the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum (www.bcdaf.org.uk) discuss emotional abuse and explore expectations and demands in relationships.

To find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse, please use the following link or helpline:

Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Refuge National Domestic Abuse: 0808 2000 247

If your church would benefit from domestic abuse training, please visit: www.bcdaf.org.uk/training 

Dr Ava Kanyeredzi (Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology at the University of East London) and Rev. Kim Bacchus (Ordained Minister, Strategic Development Coach and Trainer), both lead members of the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum (www.bcdaf.org.uk) discuss spiritual abuse in its various forms, the challenges in identifying it, and how spiritual abuse can lead to a crisis of faith for victims and survivors. 

To find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse, please use the following link or helpline:

Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Refuge National Domestic Abuse: 0808 2000 247

If your church would benefit from domestic abuse training, please visit: www.bcdaf.org.uk/training 

Dr Ava Kanyeredzi (Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology at the University of East London) and Rev. Kim Bacchus (Ordained Minister, Strategic Development Coach and Trainer), both lead members of the Black Church Domestic Abuse Forum (www.bcdaf.org.uk) discuss domestic abuse, what it is, who it affects, the role of power and control and how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted reports of domestic abuse.

To find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse, please use the following link or helpline:

Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Refuge National Domestic Abuse: 0808 2000 247

For more information about NTCG Women's Discipleship Ministries (WDM) please visit https://ntcg.org.uk/wdm/ 

For more information about NTCG Women's Discipleship Ministries (WDM) please visit https://ntcg.org.uk/wdm/ 

For more information about NTCG Women's Discipleship Ministries (WDM) please visit https://ntcg.org.uk/wdm/ 

For more information about NTCG Women's Discipleship Ministries (WDM) please visit https://ntcg.org.uk/wdm/ 

For more information about NTCG Women's Discipleship Ministries (WDM) please visit https://ntcg.org.uk/wdm/