🔴 What a DASH Score of 21 Means A DASH score of 21 places a case firmly in the high-risk category. In most UK police forces and safeguarding services: This level of score indicates a significant risk of serious harm or homicide, based on known evidence from domestic homicide reviews. ⚠️ What a Score That High Signals A score… Read More High DASH score

🔴 How DASH Scores Are Often Misunderstood The DASH (Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour-Based Violence) risk assessment is one of the most important tools used in domestic abuse cases — and one of the most misunderstood. 1️⃣ “The score is low, so the risk is low” ❌ False DASH is not a points-based test where a low number equals safety.… Read More DASH scores

Here is a clear, plain-English explanation of DASH reports and forensic psychologists, and how they interact in domestic abuse, coercive control, and safeguarding cases (UK-relevant, but principles apply more broadly). 🔴 DASH REPORTS (Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour-Based Violence) What a DASH report is A DASH risk assessment is a structured professional tool used to assess the risk of serious harm or homicide in domestic abuse cases. It… Read More DASH – reports

Here’s a plain-language summary of research by John F. Edens and colleagues that’s relevant to psychopathy assessment tools like the PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist–Revised), how they’re used, and some scientific and legal context: 🧠 Who John F. Edens Is John F. Edens, Ph.D., is a forensic and clinical psychology researcher whose work focuses on psychopathy assessment, risk evaluation, and the use—and sometimes misuse—of tools… Read More PCL-R tests

One of the most confusing things about abusive or coercive people is this: To the outside world, they often seem completely normal.Charming. Calm. Reasonable. Even kind. And that makes survivors doubt themselves. But here’s the truth, in plain language: Being dangerous is not the same as being out of control. Many abusive people are very controlled —… Read More He Seems Normal” — Why That Doesn’t Mean He’s Safe

In Spain, forensic and clinical professionals generally use the same internationally validated tools for assessing psychopathic traits as in other countries — there isn’t a completely different “Spanish-only” equivalent to Hare’s psychopathy assessments, but there are several related instruments and adaptations used in research and practice*: 🧠 1. PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist–Revised) 👉 This is the tool most closely equivalent to… Read More PCL-R

Part 1: The Exposé 👀 Mr Abusive insists he’s a very calm man.You’ll know this because he tells you right after screaming, name-calling, or throwing a chair. His “talents” include: Funny how he never loses control around witnesses. 🙄Neuroscience calls this choice, not “loss of control.” Abuse isn’t anger — it’s entitlement with poor regulation. 💡 The punchline? He says he… Read More 💥 Meet Mr Abusive: A Darkly Funny, Trauma-Aware Exposé 💥

At first, we laughed.Because sometimes humour is the only life raft when you’re swimming in chaos. We laughed at the tantrums, the overreactions, the dramatic door slams.We laughed at the excuses: We laughed because calling it absurd felt safer than calling it dangerous. But here’s the thing about laughter —it stops working when your nervous system realises it’s… Read More Why We’re Not Laughing Anymore

Mr Abusive insists he’s a very calm man.You’ll know this because he tells you right after screaming, name-calling, and throwing a chair across the room. According to Mr Abusive, his greatest talents include: Mr Abusive is deeply misunderstood.He believes: When confronted, he performs his signature act:🎭 The Victim Flip™ Suddenly you are: Remarkably, Mr Abusive never behaves this way… Read More Meet Mr “I’m Not Abusive, You Just Made Me Angry”

Anger activates the brain’s threat system. In healthy people, the prefrontal cortex stays online — allowing self-control, empathy, and repair. In unsafe people, anger shuts that system down. Watch closely: These are not “stress responses.”They are patterns of nervous system dysregulation. Living with someone who cannot regulate anger keeps your own nervous system in a chronic state of threat,… Read More Before you move in with someone, wait to see how they react when they’re angry.