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What Counts as
Harmful Behavior?
In
general, harmful behavior is any action which causes pain or harm in
someone else. As you can imagine, there are an infinite amount of
actions which have the potential to cause pain or harm and many of those
are not necessarily intentional. However, at Emerge, we look at those
actions which are either intentional or those which may initially be
unintentional, but become a harmful pattern of behavior.
The following list contains some examples of
harmful, abusive, controlling and violent behavior, as well as the effects
that they may have caused. If you have done anything on the list to a
partner, chances are that you understand the damage that can be caused
to a relationship. At Emerge we ask group members to identify how they
have harmed others so that they can work to keep them from happening.
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