Research Symposium

BIO

My name is Andrea Gutierrez and I am a sophomore here at Florida State University. My major is Communication of Sciences and Disorders with a minor in psychology. I hope to be a Speech-Language Pathologist with a focus in children after I complete my undergraduate and master’s degrees. I am from San Josè, Costa Rica but live in Delray Beach, Florida. My project “Learned Helplessness and Intimate Partner Violence” is a great project that showed me how to work multiple databases and taught me a lot about Intimate Partner Violence and the victims.

Learned Helplessness and Intimate Partner Violence

Abstract

The main articles researched were discovered to help understand the relationship of Learned Helplessness and other mental health factors that are usually found in IPV victims. Overall, most articles supported the idea that LH is a significant factor found in victims of domestic abuse. They also accept that LH can be tied to anyone who experienced severe trauma in their life including veterans, people living in poverty, and people who witnessed domestic violence during childhood. LH can interfere with other disorders such as PTSD and depression, which helps in explaining the hesitance for victims to reach out for help. The articles aided in explaining different elements that go into a person developing LH and how it changes their perspective on their situation and the outside world.

Keywords: Learned Helplessness, Intimate Partner Violence, Mental health