domestic violence survivor
Home trauma survivor
A domestic violence survivor is someone who has experienced abuse—physical, emotional, sexual, or financial—from an intimate partner or family member.
The term emphasizes resilience and agency over victimhood: She speaks publicly as a domestic violence survivor.
Survivor implies having come through the experience, though the trauma and its effects may be ongoing.
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- cycle of abuseSelf-perpetuating harm dynamic
- healingRestoration of health
- shelterProtected place or structure
- refugePlace of safety
escape · courage · strength · bruises · silence · fear · safety · advocate · support group · restraining order · court order · hotline · resilience · scars · recovery · therapy · empowerment · broken
- survivorsescapee, castaway, refugee, war refugee, veteran
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
- shelter seekershomeless person, homeless veteran, rough sleeper, street person, displaced person
- therapy patientsinpatient, outpatient, rehab patient
domestic violence survivordomestic abuser
Household violence perpetrator
perpetrator · batterer · offender · abuser · wife beater
domestic violence survivordomestic violence victim
Person abused by intimate partner
domestic, domestically, domesticate, domesticated, domestication, domicile, violence, violent, violently