ICDVP STUDY GUIDE FULL QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
●● What is not among the historical roots of feminism and the battered
women's movement?
Answer: the medical profession's treatment
●● Who is most responsible for the creation of the National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence in 1978?
Answer: The U.S. Commission of Civil Rights
●● What percentage of men who abuse their partners also abuse their
children?
Answer: Over 50%
●● During the tension building stage of the cycle of violence, victims
often become what?
Answer: compliant and nurturing to avoid another episode
●● When an abuser buys a luxury car while refusing to allow the partner
and/or children to recieve needed medical or dental care, the abuser is
being?
Answer: neglectful
,●● Financial abuse most accurately describes behavior in which an
abuser?
Answer: refuses to allow a partner to get or keep a job.
●● Victims accepting blame for the abuse is?
Answer: most likely to be among the effects of domestic violence
●● Having a dual personality is least likely to be used by an abuser to
what?
Answer: justify their behavior
●● Low tolerance levels are correlated to what?
Answer: an abusers tendency to blow up over trivial matters.
●● The Illinois Domestic Violence Act defines a domestic violence
advocate as?
Answer: any employee or volunteer with at least 40 hours of training in
domestic violence advocacy who provides services to victims of abuse
through a victim services agency
●● Child custody provisions under Illinois criminal statues states that?
Answer: the mother has legal custody of any child whose parents have
never been married unless a valid court order specifies otherwise
, ●● The federal Violence Against Women Act states that in most cases?
Answer: federal law prohibits a person who has been convicted of
domestic violence to possess a firearm or ammunition
●● The Illinois Abused and Neglected Children Reporting Act states?
Answer: that substantial risk of harm to the child is required to authorize
an investigation of suspected child abuse
●● What is least important in a report of suspected adult abuse, neglect,
or financial exploitation?
Answer: whether the suspected abuser is aware of the report
●● Domestic violence is most likely to result in what?
Answer: emergency medical treatment
●● Experiencing physical injuries is not among the requirements in what
definition?
Answer: the definition of a crisis
●● The victim is at greater risk for violence when?
Answer: after separation or filing for a divorce from the abuser
WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
●● What is not among the historical roots of feminism and the battered
women's movement?
Answer: the medical profession's treatment
●● Who is most responsible for the creation of the National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence in 1978?
Answer: The U.S. Commission of Civil Rights
●● What percentage of men who abuse their partners also abuse their
children?
Answer: Over 50%
●● During the tension building stage of the cycle of violence, victims
often become what?
Answer: compliant and nurturing to avoid another episode
●● When an abuser buys a luxury car while refusing to allow the partner
and/or children to recieve needed medical or dental care, the abuser is
being?
Answer: neglectful
,●● Financial abuse most accurately describes behavior in which an
abuser?
Answer: refuses to allow a partner to get or keep a job.
●● Victims accepting blame for the abuse is?
Answer: most likely to be among the effects of domestic violence
●● Having a dual personality is least likely to be used by an abuser to
what?
Answer: justify their behavior
●● Low tolerance levels are correlated to what?
Answer: an abusers tendency to blow up over trivial matters.
●● The Illinois Domestic Violence Act defines a domestic violence
advocate as?
Answer: any employee or volunteer with at least 40 hours of training in
domestic violence advocacy who provides services to victims of abuse
through a victim services agency
●● Child custody provisions under Illinois criminal statues states that?
Answer: the mother has legal custody of any child whose parents have
never been married unless a valid court order specifies otherwise
, ●● The federal Violence Against Women Act states that in most cases?
Answer: federal law prohibits a person who has been convicted of
domestic violence to possess a firearm or ammunition
●● The Illinois Abused and Neglected Children Reporting Act states?
Answer: that substantial risk of harm to the child is required to authorize
an investigation of suspected child abuse
●● What is least important in a report of suspected adult abuse, neglect,
or financial exploitation?
Answer: whether the suspected abuser is aware of the report
●● Domestic violence is most likely to result in what?
Answer: emergency medical treatment
●● Experiencing physical injuries is not among the requirements in what
definition?
Answer: the definition of a crisis
●● The victim is at greater risk for violence when?
Answer: after separation or filing for a divorce from the abuser
