Child Abuse Final Exam

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Emotional Child Abuse

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The constant attack of a child by an adult that negatively affects the child’s self-worth.

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Physical Child Abuse

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Any use of force or constraint that may be dangerous or detrimental to a child.

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Neglect

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Occurs when a caregiver fails to provide those basic human needs that are necessary for a child to grow into a healthy adult.

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Hyper arousal

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When children who are abused create memories that trigger a response without conscious thought.

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Sexual Abuse

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Includes a wide range of sexual behaviours that take place between a child and an older person.

These sexual behaviours are intended to erotically arouse the older person.

They do this without consideration for the reactions, choices or effects of the child

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(Types of Emotional Abuse) Rejecting

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Putting down a child’s worth or putting down their needs.

Includes: constant criticism, yelling, swearing and demeaning jokes.

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(Types of Emotional Abuse) Isolation

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Keeping a child away from family or friends.

Includes: leaving a child unattended, not allowing the child to have friends, punishing teenagers for engaging in normal social experiences.

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(Types of Emotional Abuse) Ignoring

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Failing to give any response to or failing to interact with a youth.

Includes: Denying required health/dental care, failure to protect the child, and lack of attention given to education.

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(Types of Emotional Abuse) Corrupting

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Encouraging a youth to engage in activities that are illegal or harmful to their development.

Includes: teaching racism and ethnic biases, encouraging violence in sporting activities, and inappropriate reinforcement of sexual activities.

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(Types of Emotional Abuse) Exploiting

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Expecting more out of a child than they are able to give.

Includes, young child expected to take care of younger siblings, blaming a child for the misbehaviour of siblings, and expecting a teenager to support the family financially.

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(Types of Emotional Abuse) Terrorizing

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Causing a youth to be afraid by the constant use of threats and/or intimidating behaviour.

Includes witnessing violence, threatening to harm a pet, and ridiculing teens in public.

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Symptoms of Emotional Abuse

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Boys; aggression, bullying tactics, disobedience, lying and cheating, impulsive behaviours.

Girls; withdrawn, passive, compliant, overly dependent, clinging behaviours.

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Negative Outcomes of Emotional Abuse

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Physical Effects; Speech problems (stutter), lags in physical development, failure to thrive.

Behavioural Effects; Low self-worth, irritability, sleep disorders.

Emotional Effects; Inability to control their emotions, questioning of religious beliefs.

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Uncommon Places for Children to have Bruises

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Head and Neck, Buttocks, genitals, trunk and hands, lower back, Pattern bruises.

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Types of Fractures that Indicate Abuse

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Fractures to the shoulder blade, back of the rib cage and to the large ends of long bones, skull fractures.

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Behavioural Indicators of Physical Abuse

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Runaway attempts, wary of adults, often absent from school/daycare, aggressive and withdrawn, overly compliant, poor sleeping habits, cries frequently

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(Forms of Neglect) Physical Neglect

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Is not providing for a child’s physical needs
Example; food, bath, safe house, dental/medical, weather appropriate clothing

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(forms of neglect) Educational Neglect

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This is the failure to enroll a school aged child in school or failure to provide necessary special education.
includes allowing excessive absences from school.

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(forms of neglect) Emotional Neglect

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Is not providing emotional support and love which is; affection, attending to the child’s emotional needs and psychological care as needed.

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Symptoms of Neglect

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Dirty skin, offensive body odour, unwashed clothing, lack of supervision, frequently absent from school, lacks needed medical care.

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Effects of Sexual Abuse

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Emotional; low self-esteem, inability to trust, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders
Behavioural; learning problems, insecurity, risk taking behaviour, self-harming behaviour

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How Parents can Prevent Internet Abuse

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- Computer filters
- Watch dog information sites for parents
- Talk to your kids
- Educate yourself about the internet
- Limiting time on the internet
- Keep your computer in a safe room
- Have access to all passwords
- Check browser histories
- Create a family agreement
- Teach your children not to give out information

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Effects of Abuse on Brain Development

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- Increased risk of depression
- Slow brain growth because of malnutrition
- Failure to thrive
- Language delays
- Socially delayed
- Learning disabilities
- Persistent fear response
- Dissociation
- Unable to form attachments
- Anxiety
- PTSD
- Memory impairments

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(Contributing Factors of Child Abuse-Essay)
Family Factors

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- Single parents because of a lot of stress, low income and working a lot of the time.
-Divorce because of the stress and the parents fighting.
-History because the parent may think it is okay because that is how they were raised.

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(contributing Factors of Child Abuse-Essay) Parent and Caregiver Factors

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- Mental Health because they are focused on surviving and not focused on their child.
- Substance abuse because they are spending their money on the substance and not their child.
- Expecting too much of their children because they are uneducated on what is appropriate to expect from their child.

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(Contributing Factors of Child Abuse-Essay) Child Factors

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- The child could have a mental illness which could put extra stress on the parent and they may not know how to properly deal with it.
- They don’t know and don’t understand that abuse is wrong

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(Contributing Factors of Child Abuse-Essay) Environment Factors

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- Poverty because if they have no money it will lead to stress and the parent will have to work a lot.
- Low income neighbourhoods because there is abuse around them so it may become justified.
- Social isolation could lead to abuse because the parent may think that no one will know that the abuse is happening.