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If your actions make your relationships a toxic place to be, it’s time to reflect on your behaviour and get the help you need.
Working in partnership with Southend, Essex, and Thurrock Domestic Abuse Board (SETDAB), our Reflect campaign works to confront domestic abuse in Essex.
We are encouraging perpetrators to identify and change their abusive behaviour.
Whether it’s physical abuse, controlling behaviour, stalking and harassment, or uncontrolled emotions like humiliation or anger towards a loved one, we want to break the cycle of domestic abuse and prevent it from happening again.
It’s about making a real, lasting change, and driving down incidents of domestic abuse.
Domestic abuse is not always about physical violence. Manipulating, intimidating or controlling your loved ones can also leave scars - we can't always see them.
Mental coercion and manipulation can be as harmful as physical violence. Coercive control is a range of behaviours that allow a person to gain, or keep control, over someone else. To begin with the behaviour can be seen as being protective or caring. But these behaviours can escalate. Crossing the boundaries into financial control, tracking a loved one's movements, dictating what they can wear or what they do, are signs of coercive behaviour.
Deepfakes are an emerging trend within the digital world. These are manipulated videos or images, designed to deceive people. It has opened up new avenues for exploitation and harassment, especially in intimate relationships.
At the same time, image-based abuse - the sharing explicit images without consent - continues to be a devastating form of control. It is often tied to the manipulation of victims’ emotions and personal lives.
We are committed to protecting victims in both the physical world and the digital world. But ultimately we want to prevent abuse from happening in the first place.
We know that consent underpins all forms of sexual violence and sexual abuse. We also know that the majority of sexual offences happen in the home.
Through our 'No it's not on' element of our Reflect campaign, we are working to raise awareness of sexual abuse in relationships and the importance of consent.