Drug abuse has an effect on all aspects of life; overall health and wellness‚ family life‚ and the community. With there being so many different kinds of drugs the effects are endless. The effect of drug abuse does not discriminate or focus on any one person. Drug abuse can be found in any area of the world and the overall effects can be devastating to anyone involved. A person’s choice to use any kind of illegal drug or abusing prescribed medicines can have a damaging impact on their overall health
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Child abuse is one of the biggest injustices of all time because it is a never ending cycle. Child abuse is the physical‚ sexual‚ or emotional mistreatment or neglect of a child. Children are young‚ innocent‚ and fragile. Their minds are like sponges‚ absorbing everything they see and feel. Thus‚ leading the children to being the advocate of child abuse when their older. Abused and neglected children are 11 times more likely to engage in criminal behavior as an adult. Therefore‚ child abuse leads
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Nursing Home Abuse 3 Nursing Home Abuse As the healthcare system in this country has changed‚ so have traditional nursing homes. Families have the right to expect that their loved ones will be taken care of by professionals in a caring environment. Unfortunately‚ may people are being abused and neglected in nursing homes. It is very clear that abuse is a serious problem among nursing home patients‚ and something needs to be done to put a stop to it. Abuse can happen to
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Elderly Abuse: Recognizing and Reporting The 2009 United States Census shows that 12.4 percent of the Illinois population was 65 years of age or older. In Illinois‚ an estimated 76‚000 persons over age 60 suffered from elder abuse‚ but the state of Illinois reported receiving only 10‚583 elder abuse reports during 2008. The 2008 Illinois Elder Abuse and Neglect Program Annual Report‚ Demographics reveals that of reported cases of abuse in Illinois that year: almost one in four victims are age
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Child Abuse Child abuse is any form of maltreatment to a child or children and could either be physical‚ emotional‚ or sexual. It can also be described as an act or failure to act by a parent or caretaker which results to harm of the child. There are four major forms of child abuse‚ Physical‚ abuse which is the infliction of serious injuries or actions that may lead to infliction of injuries or death. Sexual abuse is a situation where an adult engages
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Models of abuse There are 4 models of abuse: Medical model Medical model indicates that Child abuse is caused by a disease‚ often a mental illness‚ with signs & symptoms that can be prevented and cured. This came from the phrase coined by kempe and kempe the battered child syndrome. They concluded that many mothers the main career who gives this bond is made who had abuse their children had themselves sufferer from poor attachment experiences in child hood they have not learnt from these expierneces
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PHYISCAL ABUSE • WHAT IS PHYISCAL ABUSE AND WHAT IS THE SIGNS AND SYMPTONS • Physical abuse can be when someone is being hit‚ kicked‚ force feed‚ being restraint. • The signs and symptoms can be bruising or other unexplained injuries i.e. broken bones. • Physical abuse is abuse where there is damage to physical features of the body which can be bruises and broken bones ETC. SEXUAL ABUSE • WHAT IS SEXUAL ABUSE AND WHAT IS THE SIGNS AND SYMPTONS • Sexual abuse can be when someone touchs you
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A child as young as two can be affected by verbal abuse. Mistreatment during infancy and early childhood negatively affect early brain development and can have a long term effect into their adolescence and adulthood. The experiences we live through infancy and early childhood provide a framework for the expression of children’s intelligence‚ emotions and personalities. When those experiences are primarily negative‚ children may build up emotional‚ behavioral and learning problems that carry on during
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with systems like the Amber Alert system‚ yet it is still difficult for the victims to leave on their own. Abuse victims along with Dugard also struggle with gaining the strength to leave. Years after Dugard was rescued she says "You must find your voice and not be afraid to speak up" (Dugard 148). Something she regrets doing while being held captive. In the end the claim that victims of abuse should take more responsibility to escaoe their abusers control should be challenges because of the difficulty
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Child Abuse and Neglect Child abuse is any act that endangers a child’s physical or emotional health and development. Child abuse and neglect can take place anywhere. The child often knows the abuser well a parent‚ relative‚ babysitter‚ or friend of the family. Child abuse and neglect crosses all ethnic‚ racial‚ social‚ and economic lines This book talks and expresses the examinations of child neglect in families and its relevance to research‚ policy and practice in the field of services to children
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