Child abuse includes physical, emotional, sexual abuse and neglect. Physical abuse involves harming a child through actions like punching, beating or burning. Sexual abuse involves sexual acts performed on a child. Emotional abuse damages a child's mental health through verbal assaults or lack of affection. Neglect refers to failing to provide for a child's basic needs. Spouse abuse follows a cycle of tension building, acute battering incidents and temporary remorse. It is characterized by control, jealousy, drug/alcohol abuse and coming from a violent family. Counselors should offer support, maintain confidentiality, involve support systems and plan follow-up care when assisting abuse victims.
Child abuse includes physical, emotional, sexual abuse and neglect. Physical abuse involves harming a child through actions like punching, beating or burning. Sexual abuse involves sexual acts performed on a child. Emotional abuse damages a child's mental health through verbal assaults or lack of affection. Neglect refers to failing to provide for a child's basic needs. Spouse abuse follows a cycle of tension building, acute battering incidents and temporary remorse. It is characterized by control, jealousy, drug/alcohol abuse and coming from a violent family. Counselors should offer support, maintain confidentiality, involve support systems and plan follow-up care when assisting abuse victims.
Child abuse includes physical, emotional, sexual abuse and neglect. Physical abuse involves harming a child through actions like punching, beating or burning. Sexual abuse involves sexual acts performed on a child. Emotional abuse damages a child's mental health through verbal assaults or lack of affection. Neglect refers to failing to provide for a child's basic needs. Spouse abuse follows a cycle of tension building, acute battering incidents and temporary remorse. It is characterized by control, jealousy, drug/alcohol abuse and coming from a violent family. Counselors should offer support, maintain confidentiality, involve support systems and plan follow-up care when assisting abuse victims.
CHILD ABUSE (intentional injury of a child which includes: physical,
emotional, sexual, neglect)
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1. Physical abuse (physical injury caused by punching, beating,
kicking, biting, burning or otherwise harming a child,physical abuse is the most visible form of child maltreatment. Many times, physical abuse results from inappropriate or excessive physicaldiscipline.) 2. Sexual abuse Involves sexual acts performed by an adult on a child younger than 18 years old. Examples include incest, and acts of molestation such as rubbing, fondling or exposing the adults genitals, rape and exploitation 3. Emotional Abuse is just as harmful as physical abuse. It may involve conveying to children that they are worthless or unloved. It includes verbal assaults such as blaming, screaming, name calling and using sarcasm.. Constant family discord by fighting, yelling and chaos. Emotional abuse often accompanies other types of abuse (physical or sexual abuse) 4. Neglect absent or lack of provision of things necessary for the childs growth and development a)physical neglect- failure to provide medical, dental or psychiatric care b)education neglect- failure to provide education 5. Munchausen Sydrome: factitious disorder by proxy an adult caregiver (typically the mother), makes a child appear mentally or physically ill or impaired by either fabricating symptoms or actually causing harm to the child, in order to gain the attention of medical providers and others. In order to perpetuate the medical relationship, the caregiver systematically misrepresents symptoms, fabricates signs, manipulates laboratory tests, or even purposely harms the child (e.g. by poisoning, suffocation, infection, physical injury). 5. Secondary abuse: children of abused women Characteristics of abusive parents Came from a violent family Have inadequate parenting skills Socially isolated Emotionally immature Victim of child abuse
SPOUSE ABUSE is maltreatment in the context of an intimate
relationship
-husband and wife - live in partner
-boyfriend and girlfriend - same sex relationship CYCLE of SPOUSE ABUSE 1. Tension building phase ( onset and beginning of minor arguments, stony silence and repetitive complains of the husband / minor form of battering) 2. Acute battering incident intense violence of physical injury, verbal demoralization and threatening of the partner/ involves more serious form of battering 3. Honeymoon stage- husband expressing remorse and promises that the battering incident will no longer happen, becomes loving Warning signs of relationship violence: V iew you as unequal I nvade your personal space O ver jealousy L ack of empathy E motionally abuses you (insults, belittling, name-calling) N egatively talks about women in general C annot express emotional and sexual frustrations (without becoming angry) E xtreme use of drugs or alcohol Characteristics of abusive husbands: -low self-esteem (they think theyre not good enough) -has strong feeling of inadequacy -very controlling -possessive (think that his wife is his possession) -abused drugs and alcohol -narcissistic -irrational jealousy -usually come from violent families
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Encourage expressions of feelings (related to the abuse)
Allow client to discuss feelings and concerns Maintain confidentiality of information Offer self in seeking medical care (for physical problem related to the abuse) 5. Identify supportive people to assist (in dealing with the crisis) 6. Involved client in mobilizing support systems
7. Support decision making and active support systems
8. Provide written information about community services (and encourage to avail their services) 9. Plan for follow-up care
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