Identify the characteristics of different types of child abuse. *** Answer submitted on Apr 7 2013 4:55PM *** There are four main types of child abuse; Physical‚ Sexual‚ Emotional/Phychological and Neglect. PHYSICAL Physical child abuse is an injury resulting from physical agression even if the injury was not intended the act is considered physical abuse. Beating‚ slapping and hitting. Pushing‚ shaking‚ kicking or throwing. Pinching‚ biting‚ choking or hair pulling. Burning with cigerettes
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In the Hellenistic period we see a need for salvation from death. Due to the culture shock that many people experienced when the borders of different countries and cultures were erased‚ many people became pessimistic‚ started to doubt there religions and experienced the break-up of culture. The same is happening today as the internet and television make the world “smaller” in the sense that we are much more aware of the happenings world wide and capable of communicating ideas and perspectives easily
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Effects of Child Abuse by CHILDREN Neglect of a child is not limited to physical abuse; it encompasses physical‚ emotional‚ sexual abuse. The effects of these types of abuse are not limited to the number of years the child suffers; unfortunately‚ the effects of child abuse last a lifetime. Studies on child abuse have proven the negative effects are more than skin deep‚ and can have permanent physical‚ intellectual‚ and psychological consequences throughout adolescence and adulthood. When children
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QUESTIONNAIRE ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE Completing the article: Prevalence of child sexual abuse among adolescents in Geneva: results of a cross sectional survey (1996). Halpérin D.S.‚ Bouvier P.‚ Jaffe P. D.‚ Mounoud R-L.‚ Pawlak C.H.‚ Laederach J.‚ Rey Wicky H. British Medical Journal; 312: 1326-1329 Q1: How old are you ? years and months Q2: Are you a girl or a boy ? girl boy Q3: Who do you live with ? (several answers are possible) father mother stepfather
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Carolina Maria de Jesus’ journal "Child of the Dark" is a complete account of five years spent living in a favela in Sao Paolo‚ Brazil. Carolina and her children spent their days and nights trying to survive in the most horrific of slums while the rest of the nation looked down upon them‚ scolding them for being poor and complaining about how the residents of the favela were nothing but a burden on the rest of the world. Rarely did anyone take pity on the single mother and her young‚ defenseless
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While I was watching the video “The Medicated child” I couldn’t stop feeling uncomfortable to see how many kids are asked to take medication at an early age. It is very sad to see that there is a large number of children who have the need to take medications and how this medication attempt to help them with certain issues but at the same time is creating a new issue/health problem on them. For example‚ on the first case that it was shown on the video‚ Jacob didn’t had any serious problem until the
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Child abuse is any action by another person adult that involve significant harm to the child.it can be physical‚ sexual‚ emotional or neglect. Emotional abuse Emotional abuse is defining as phycological abuse and can damage the child emotional health and development of child‚ Physical abuse physical injury to a child‚ there are many physical abuse‚ hitting‚ shaking throwing‚ suffocating otherwise cause physical harm to child or family protect child from that harm may also be caused when a parent
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Kendall Kuharevicz Mrs. Evans English 101 28 January 2013 Death of a Loved One Devastating occurrences have the ability to completely alter the ways in which you live your life. When these certain situations occur‚ you have two choices: You can let them destroy you‚ or you can let them strengthen you. My outlook on life was completely changed when my kind hearted grandmother passed away when I was just a child. I was struck with the realization that life can be taken away in an instant and
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It’s important to protect children from harm within the setting as we have a duty of care to look after children whilst under our supervision. Children who are at risk from harm may not only issues with their health‚ but have a knock on effect with areas of their development too. 3.1 Explain the different types of abuse. Abuse comes in many forms and can effect children in very different ways. The types of child abuse are: Physical Abuse - This is when a child is deliberately hurt‚ injured or made
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EFFECT OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT FOR ADULT SURVIVORS Child abuse and neglect for adult survivors is consists of any acts of commission or omission by a parent‚ caregiver or other adult that results in harm‚ potential for harm‚ or the threat of harm to a child around the age 0 to 18 years old‚ even if the harm is unintentional. It can be in the form of physical abuse‚ sexual abuse‚ emotional abuse‚ neglect‚ and witnessing domestic violence. Child abuse and neglect is most likely to arise from the interaction
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