Elizabeth’s childhood experiences of observing the abuse between her parents provided an impression of the behavior that is consider acceptable. Children observe the people around them behaving in various ways. These individuals that are observed are called models. Before long, they may mimic the behavior they have previously observed. Elizabeth’s influential models were her parents creating a sense of hostile environment giving Elizabeth the ability to encode a self-system in which she perceives, evaluates, and regulates his or her own behavior so that it is appropriate to the environment and effective in achieving the individual’s goals. For Elizabeth, she found it difficult to watch her mother in that type of environment resulting in Elizabeth
