No flexibility with schedules, particularly at bed time.Lack of personal possessions (clothing, items, trinkets, etc.).An example of a small instance is insisting that the person in their care eat their meal or have their snack at the same time everyday, even when they do not want to. Institutional abuse can take many different forms, some of them very small. This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and starvation, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behavior. Institutional abuse which is also known as organizational abuse, is the maltreatment of a person (often children or older adults) from a system of power. When it is used to begin and maintain a longer-term intimate relationship, it is considered to be a constituent element of sexual slavery. While coercive control is often considered in the context of an existing intimate relationship, when it is used to elicit a sexual encounter it is legally considered as being a constituent part of sexual abuse or rape. On a similar basis of attempting to understand and stop the widespread practice of coercive control, in 2019, the UK government made teaching about what coercive control was a mandatory part of the education syllabus on relationships. And on this basis defining it as: 'any evidence of deterioration in the physical, psychological, or emotional welfare of the applicant or a dependent person which is caused directly by fear of the behaviour of the respondent.'. For example, on January 1, 2019, Ireland enacted the Domestic Violence Act 2018, which allowed for the practice of coercive control to be identifiable based upon its effects on the victim. In conjunction with this, there have been increased attempts by the legal establishment to understand the characteristics and effects of coercive control in legal terminology. The seriousness of coercive control in modern Western societies has been increasingly recognised with changes to the law in several countries so it is a definable criminal offence. Based on statistical evidence, certain personality disorders correlate with abusive tendencies of individuals with those specific personality disorders when also compiled with abusive childhoods themselves. The victim may be plied with alcohol or drugs or deprived of sleep to become disoriented. Isolation, gaslighting, mind games, lying, disinformation, propaganda, destabilisation, brainwashing, and divide and rule are other strategies that may be used. An attempt may be made to normalise, legitimise, rationalise, deny, or minimise the abusive behaviour, or to blame the victim for it. Traumatic bonding (also popularly known as Stockholm syndrome) can occur between abusers and victims as the result of ongoing cycles of abuse in which the intermittent reinforcement of reward and punishment creates powerful emotional bonds (that are resistant to change) and a climate of fear. The vulnerabilities of the victim are exploited, with those who are particularly vulnerable being most often selected as targets. Manipulators and abusers may control their victims with a range of tactics, including, but not limited to, positive reinforcement (such as praise, superficial charm, flattery, ingratiation, love bombing, smiling, gifts, attention), negative reinforcement (taking away aversive tasks or items), intermittent or partial reinforcement, psychological punishment (such as nagging, silent treatment, swearing, threats, intimidation, emotional blackmail, guilt trips, inattention) and traumatic tactics (such as verbal abuse or explosive anger). The goal of the abuser is to control, intimidate, and influence the victim to feel without an equal voice in the relationship. Control may be exerted through economic abuse, limiting the victim, as the victim may not have the means to resist or leave the abuse. The tactics themselves are psychologically and sometimes physically abusive. Д¬ontrolling abusers use tactics to exert power and control over their victims. The abuser may have a variety of motivations which can include devaluation, envy, personal gain, personal gratification, psychological projection, or simply the enjoyment of exercising power and control. Abusive power and control (also controlling behavior and coercive control) is commonly used by an abusive person, people, or authoritative entity to gain and maintain power and control over another person or people or a family under Social Services Agency 'control' in order to subject that victim(s) to psychological, physical, mental, sexual, or financial abuse.

Power oriented serial killer