5AEmotional or psychological abuse

5A Emotional or psychological abuse (1) Emotional or psychological abuse is conduct that would torment, coerce, intimidate, harass or be offensive to a reasonable person and result in a reasonable person suffering emotional distress or mental harm. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), emotional or psychological abuse of a person may include any of the following conduct: (a) making repeated derogatory taunts of the person; (b) threatening to disclose sensitive information about the person to the person's friends, family or workplace; (c) threatening to withhold the person's medication; (d) preventing the person from maintaining social, familial or cultural connections; (e) preventing the person from expressing the person's cultural identity; (f) threatening to self-harm with the intention of tormenting the (g) threatening to harm another person with the intention of tormenting the person; (h) following the person in public or in the person's residence or remaining outside the person's residence or work with the intention of tormenting the person; (i) repeatedly contacting the person by any means of communication without the person's consent; (j) sending offensive material or communications to the person or leaving offensive material where it is likely to be found by the (k) taking an intimate image of the person without consent; (l) threatening to distribute or publish an intimate image of the (m) publishing offensive material or communications about the person without consent;

Domestic and Family Violence Act 2007 13 (n) driving a motor vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner or acting in a reckless or dangerous manner while driving a motor vehicle when the person is a passenger in the vehicle; (o) threatening to request that the person be assessed to determine whether the person is in need of treatment under the Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998; (p) threatening to withdraw care on which the person is dependent; (q) preventing the person from entering the person's place of residence. (3) In deciding whether a person's conduct amounts to emotional or psychological abuse, consideration may be given to a pattern of conduct.