Types of Abuse
Types of Abuse.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults.
What is abuse?
Abuse may involve of a single or repeated acts. Abuse may be physical, verbal or psychological, it may be an act of neglect or an omission to act or it may occur when a vulnerable person is persuaded to enter into financial or sexual actions to which he or she has not consented to or doesn’t understand, or cannot consent. Abuse can occur in any relationship and may result in substantial harm to, or abuse of, the person exposed to it.
What rights do you have?
Everyone has the right to be respected by other people and not to be forced to do things they don’t want to or been hurt intentionally. Everyone has the right to feeling safe in their own home and on the streets. Everyone has the right to have a violence, fear and abuse free life.
Abuse can happen anywhere; Hospitals, Care homes, School, Home, Hospice, Community centre, Work, Doctors, Police, Dentist, Friends, Prison and many more places.
Kinds of abuse vulnerable adults may experience.
Physical, Sexual, Psychological, Neglect, Omission, Exploitation, Financial, Discrimination, Institutional, Bullying, Self-harm, Violence, Abuse/Domestic violence.
Discrimination
People may get treated unfairly because of different factors; Skin colour, Ethnicity, Religion, Age, Disability, Language and Sexuality.
Domestic abuse
Domestic abuse tends to happen in the home. Domestic violence, also maybe know as spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is distinct pattern of abusive activities from one person against another in an intimate relationship or close relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation. People may be abused by their mother, father, sister, brother, carer, boyfriend, girlfriend.
Professional abuse
Professional abuse may consist of not been given medication when needed or may be forgotten about and been given medication too late. Professional abuse can be when a leader takes
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults.
What is abuse?
Abuse may involve of a single or repeated acts. Abuse may be physical, verbal or psychological, it may be an act of neglect or an omission to act or it may occur when a vulnerable person is persuaded to enter into financial or sexual actions to which he or she has not consented to or doesn’t understand, or cannot consent. Abuse can occur in any relationship and may result in substantial harm to, or abuse of, the person exposed to it.
What rights do you have?
Everyone has the right to be respected by other people and not to be forced to do things they don’t want to or been hurt intentionally. Everyone has the right to feeling safe in their own home and on the streets. Everyone has the right to have a violence, fear and abuse free life.
Abuse can happen anywhere; Hospitals, Care homes, School, Home, Hospice, Community centre, Work, Doctors, Police, Dentist, Friends, Prison and many more places.
Kinds of abuse vulnerable adults may experience.
Physical, Sexual, Psychological, Neglect, Omission, Exploitation, Financial, Discrimination, Institutional, Bullying, Self-harm, Violence, Abuse/Domestic violence.
Discrimination
People may get treated unfairly because of different factors; Skin colour, Ethnicity, Religion, Age, Disability, Language and Sexuality.
Domestic abuse
Domestic abuse tends to happen in the home. Domestic violence, also maybe know as spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is distinct pattern of abusive activities from one person against another in an intimate relationship or close relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation. People may be abused by their mother, father, sister, brother, carer, boyfriend, girlfriend.
Professional abuse
Professional abuse may consist of not been given medication when needed or may be forgotten about and been given medication too late. Professional abuse can be when a leader takes