In her study of adolescent-to-parent abuse, Eckstein found that parents sometimes needed to engagement tactics, designed to engage in conflict but avoid escalation to abuse

One
of these tactics involved selecting a location in which to have the argument that reduced
the likelihood of violence. Eckstein labeled this tactic
a. Warning
b. Good-cop/Bad-cop
c. Strategic confrontation
d. Manipulation of space
e. Tag-team arguing

c.