Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care
Outcome 1
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Physical abuse is typically described as the use of physical force against another person that may in turn cause injury, pain or impairment. This type of abuse could be perform with or without an object. possible signs of physical abuse may include the following; bruising other marks on the skin nervous behaviour depression unexplainable weight loss
Sexual abuse is the forced and undesired sexual behaviour from one person onto another and/or sexual activity that can be deemed as inappropriate and/or harmful possible signs of sexual abuse may include the following; bruising withdrawing from friends or family an unexplainable change in behaviour a preoccupation with anything sexual loss of sleep
Emotional/psychological abuse is characterized by somebody exposing another person to behaviour that may result in certain psychological traumas, such as anxiety, and even as bad as post-traumatic stress disorder. Such behaviour that could cause this could include intimidation, threats, bullying. This of course could also include discrimination that relate to age, gender, race etc possible signs of emotional abuse may include the following; fearful behaviour depression an unexplainable change in behaviour loss of sleep
Financial abuse can be an extremely subtle way of abusing someone, generally involving telling another person what they can or can 't purchase, or insisting and requiring to have control of the victims bank account(s) or other money outlets. possible signs of financial abuse may include the following; stress unexplainable bank withdrawals unpaid bills theft fraud
Institutional abuse is simply the mistreatment of a person that it brought about by poor care or even support. This type of abuse could also include a system wide failure of practice that could affect an entire care setting. This abuse occurs when the victims wishes and needs are sacrificed for the