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Unit 4- Principles of safeguarding and protection in Health and social care
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Abuse is: about a person inappropriately using their power over another individual, Treating someone with disrespect, the control by a person of an individual using fear, violence, or intimidation, the mistreatment by any person that violates an individual 's human and civil rights and a single or repeated act or lack of appropriate action occurring in any relationship causes harm or distress to a vulnerable individual.
a. Physical abuse: Physical abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm
b. Sexual abuse: is the forcing of undesired sexual behaviour by one person upon another
c. Emotional/psychological abuse: may involve threats or actions to cause mental or physical harm; humiliation; isolation
d. Financial abuse: is the illegal or unauthorised use of a person’s property, money, pension book or other valuables
e. Institutional abuse: involves failure of an organisation to provide appropriate and professional individual services to vulnerable people. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour that amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, stereotyping and rigid systems.
f. Self-neglect: is a behavioural condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding, or tending appropriately to any medical conditions they have.
g. Neglect by others: Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which