אלימות כלכלית: אפיונים, השלכות ודרכי התמודדות

Background: Economic abuse, as a worldwide phenomenon resulting in the poverty of women and children, was silenced until recently. Currently, research concerning this issue has broken the silence,proposing theoretical analyses linking it to coerced control, and developing models to deal with it.Aim: To expand social workers and other professionals’ understanding of economic abuse, and to strengthen the link between its perception as a multi-dimensional phenomenon and a multi-dimensional model of response - the coordinated community response model (CCR), proposed here as part of cooperative governance.Method: Our article reviews studies published on the subject from 2008, with the publishing by Adrienne Adams and her colleagues of the first scale for measuring economic abuse, through 2022,with the international study of men who engage in economic violence published by Judy Postmus and her colleagues.Findings: The reviewed articles show that economic abuse occurs in conditions of women’s dependence on the relationship with a partner, through fear of loneliness, fear of separation, or through the need to protect their social status . Economic abuse occurs among women of all socials trata and occupational status. It frequently results in depression, and women have difficulty believing that it is possibile to emerge from the long-term poverty often associated with coerced debts.Conclusions: The CCR model is compatible with the multi-dimensional character of economic abuse.It is therefore suitable for developing responses within the framework of cooperative governance that will ensure the allocation of resources for the rehabilitation of victims/survivors. Implications for practice and policy: There is a need to increase the authorities' awareness of the economic abuse phenomenon; to promote collaboration of organizations providing social support to its survivors; and to increase the availability of public housing and the allocation of material resources for their rehabilitation, primarily in the sphere of coerced debts