Yes, many, many people, educated people, are unaware of the impact of any of these types of abuse. From my vantage point as a therapist who mostly deals with trauma, it seems like a good proportion of the population associates trauma only with the military. While people recognize physical abuse/domestic violence, they have no idea that chronic verbal abuse is more prevalent and more harmful than a one time incident of physical or sexual abuse (based on a study of 14,000 older adolescents and young adults). They have no idea that financial control is a form of abuse.
The biggest part of the work I do with survivors of DV is psycho-education to teach and convince them that verbal abuse is DV.