Psychological Abuse
Presented by Psyche Cheung Celia Chan Jason Chan Kris Lee
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Abuse harmful, injurious, or offensive excessive and wrongful misuse of anything
Definition
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Psychological Abuse caused by emotional abuse / mental abuse / physical abuse behavior that may result in psychological trauma eg anxiety / chronic depression / post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) happened in the situations of power imbalance abusive relationships / bullying / child abuse / abuse in the workplace
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Types of Abuse
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Physical / Psychological Abuse
- Animal Abuse - Child Abuse - Sexual Abuse - Substance Abuse (ie Drug / Alcohol) - Elderly Abuse - Emotional Abuse
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Definition
Animal Abuse
Cruelty (The Oxford English Dictionary) “...a disposition to inflict suffering; delight or indifference to another’s pain; merciless, hard-heartedness ...”. History of Animal Abuse DSM-III-R (APA, 1987) DSM-IV feature of conduct disorder " … a repetitive and persistent pattern of behaviour in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated" (APA, 1994, p.85).
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Animal Abuse
Criminal careers begin in childhood cruelty behaviors would cause:antisocial behaviour aggression (to be leaded to child abuse and bully) Advantages of reducing animal abuse improving human safety lowering tolerance levels for all acts of aggression avoiding to trigger the possible crimes (eg murder) after the child’s growth up
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Animal Abuse
Statistical analysis (Arluke et al., (1999)):-
a significant association between acts of cruelty to animals in childhood and serious, recurrent aggression against people as adults. Abused animals 5 or more times in childhood
Types aggressive criminals non-aggressive criminals non-criminals % 25% 5.8% 0%
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Animal