Sometimes this is learned behaviour from home and is hard for young children to understand that you are telling them it is not okay to call names because of someone’s skin colour or how they look . It is important to be consistent and reinforce that it’s not okay and it is very upsetting and hurtful. How would they feel if they were left out. We need to teach our children empathy from an early age and to respect each other regardless of race, age, gender, how we look, where were from. 2.2 Any form of prejudice and discrimination can have a severe negative effect throughout a person’s life.
Child abuse is emotional when you are constantly blaming or putting down a child; excessive yelling, shaming. It is likely that emotional child abuse is greatly underreported, since it can be difficult to detect and difficult to document. Emotional child abuse includes acts of commission or omission by the parents and other caregivers that could cause the child to have serious behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders. In some instances of emotional child abuse, the acts of parents or other caregivers alone, without any harm yet evident in the child's behavior or condition, are sufficient to warrant the intervention of child protective services. For example, the parents or caregivers may use extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement of a child in a dark closet.
Explain in detail the main factors that would lead you to suspect a case of child maltreatment or abuse. Physical Abuse: Unexplained bruising, marks or injuries on any part of the body multiple bruises, often on the upper arm, outside of the thigh. If this was shown on a child consistently I would be very suspicious. Bruising should always generate suspicion in infants who are not yet mobile. The normal activities of daily life in an infant should not generate bruises.
Therefore, according to the latest studies of some organizations such as children protection, spanking can create physiological problems such as depression in a child. It makes parents believe that spanking children can harm their children. Spanking children is not a good way to discipline them because children can get some mental problems. For example, children who are usually spanked by their parents believe that they hate them, so children get depression because of spanking. Children can also get mental problems because of spanking such as killing themselves.
They can quickly fall behind from peers of the same age. They may find it difficult to interact and make friends with others who are more advanced. They may struggle with intellectual development memory and concentration. Delayed speech development A child who has limited or no speech could be a cause great concern. This would affect a child’s social and communication development as he/she would find it difficult to listen and speak to peers staff and carers this could also affect their behaviour possibly becoming frustrated and quite angry Whatever concern you have about a Childs development in any area, you should always share it with others.
When the child realizes that this type of behavior is wrong and unacceptable, those internal feelings of violation never fade. Children that come from abusive homes often go to school or child care without showing any signs of abuse or neglect; perhaps living with the fear that if they “tell”, it will anger both the parents if their family secret is revealed, which could lead to more abuse inside the home. Children with ages ranging from infancy to adolescence have a tendency to feel lost or vulnerable. These kids strive for attention in negative ways, as well as seeking an approval from others by any means necessary. For example, “The emotional responses of children who witness domestic violence may include fear, guilt, shame, sleep disturbances, sadness, depression, and anger (Domestic Violence Round Table, 2015).” It is evidently clear that children who come from abusive families may incur problems later in life as they establish and build personal and private relationships.
4.1 Many people associate neglect and abuse with physical harm, however this is not the case and can take the form of physical, emotional, neglect or sexual abuse. As practitioner’s, people need to have a good understanding and knowledge of the signs and symptoms of neglect and abuse, in order to act upon and report possible occurrences to the appropriate the designated child protection officer. In order for this happen we as practitioners, as I mentioned earlier, have to understand the signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect, an example of these are: Physical Abuse: Physical abuse is the deliberate harming of a child or young person through the form of hitting, kicking, beating with objects or shaking to name but a few. If subjected to this abuse the child or young person could show some of the following symptoms or signs: * Unexplained recurrent injuries or burns. * The wearing of heavy clothes to cover injuries even in hot weather, or the refusal to undress for PE or games at school.
The mind frame which an adolescent is permanently damaged with is not a healthy one. The learned behavior that a male or female carry on becomes an unhealthy cycle. It is too often that adults don’t realize that the major victim to domestic violence is the innocent child who lives the domestic violence environment. For example, young preschool children witnessing domestic violence has a negative effect on the development of preschool. There is a discrepancy between exposed and non-exposed children in cognitive ability as well as externalizing and internalizing behavior problems.
Children need to be taught subtlety, not brutality. Hitting a child is never reasonable, no matter how much trouble they have caused. Reasons being, it might bring forth feelings of anger towards parents who struck them, it could make the child violent towards others, and it can also create a rebellious person.
English 11CP, Period 3 19 December 2012 Child Abuse “Every year 3.3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States.” (National Child Abuse Statistics) Child abuse is a worldwide problem that needs to be recognized and stopped because these situations can start with the use of corporal punishment, become worse with substance abuse of caretakers, and there will always be myths that everyone questions. Corporal punishment includes a wide range of actions that inflict pain and/or discomfort. This type of issue includes slapping, spanking, swatting, and plenty of other type of “punishment”. “National surveys show that the majority of parents in the United States still use some of these methods, especially with children under