Relationship Abuse Case Study

Carla is an older lady, she is 75 year old who has recently had a stroke and currently struggles doing basic day to day tasks. She doesn’t have any friends or family and feels she needs a hand with some tasks in her normal day to day routine. So she has a carer who is coming to her home 3 times a week to support her with anything she may find difficult. Carla’s next door neighbour Cherrelle also helps her with some simple day to day tasks as she does her shopping for her as she can’t manage do this herself since she had a stroke. But she did not give Carla her change back from her shopping money, so Carla confronted Cherrelle and told her she was aware she wasn’t given her correct change from her shopping money, so she didn’t want her to
Carla was suffering financial abuse from her neighbour someone who she thought she could trust and was doing her a favour, Because Carla had a supportive relationship with her support worker this helped stop the abuse that she was suffering, and because Carla was able to explain to her support worker what has went on the support worker was able to take immediate action, She had a very trust worthy relationship with her support worker and felt confident enough to tell her about the situation with her neighbour Cherrelle knowing that something would be done about it. If Carla didn’t have a supportive relationship with her support worker this abuse may of carried on as Carla may have become isolated as she has no other friends or family members who she trust to report this too, but because she had a good healthy supportive relationship with her support it give Carla the confidence to speak out about her
He has a support worker called Dave who is one of the hostel workers and he is currently having support lessons to help him get back on the right track in life. Denzil is aware that he went to a bad place in his life and got in with the wrong group of people which led him to a life of crime and now he has done his time and feels he is a changed man he wants to get back to his normal life, find work and stay out of trouble. He wants to stay away from the older group of friends who he use to look up to as role models and use to spend all of his time with before he went to jail, the older men bullied and influenced Denzil into drug dealing. As Denzil was bullied by an older group of men who he thought where his friends he could have suffered from emotional, physical or psychological abuse. Denzil could of suffered physical abuse as he may not wanted to sell drugs and they may of forced him to by using physical force towards him if he refused to do what the older men told him to do, He may have been hit or tortured until he agreed to sell the drugs. He could have also suffered from physiological and emotional abuse by the bullies as they could have threatened to hurt his friends & family members if he didn’t do what they told him too. Now that Denzil has developed a supportive