Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care. 1.1 Define the following types of abuse: •Physical abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm. •Sexual abuse is the forcing of undesired sexual behaviour by one person upon another. •Emotional/psychological abuse may involve threats or actions to cause mental or physical harm; humiliation; isolation. •Financial abuse is the illegal or unauthorised use of a person’s property, money, pension book or other valuables.
Emotional and psychological abuse: Emotional and psychological abuse is when physical abuse is being made or even threats these can have a big impact. Being bullied or stereotyping can be emotional and can affect self-esteem anything that affects dignity or self-worth is abuse signs and symptoms can vary from unpredictable behaviour or ignoring and secluding themselves from people, denial of being abused and blaming themselves. Or even aggression. Financial Abuse Financial abuse is when an individual steals from you or restricts your access to you on money/accounts or pensions signs and symptoms could include money going missing around the house or even from your bank. Bank details changing or being unable to make payment.
Weight loss and unkempt appearance can be signs of abuse. Being scared of contact and flinching away could be signs that abuse is being used. Noticing medication running out quickly could be a indicator that medication is being over used just as medication not running out could show that medication is not being given. Sexual abuse Definition: Sexual abuse is any kind of sexual activity is forced upon a vulnerable person. Having no consent or abusing a person who is unable to give consent due to illness or mental state is sexual abuse.
Types of sexual abuse are rape, sexual assault, touching and fondling, offensive or inappropriate language or involving an individual in the making and/or showing of pornography. • Emotional/psychological abuse. This is behaviour that has a harmful effect on the person’s emotional health and development or any form of mental cruelty. Some participating factors of emotional/psychological abuse maybe threats of harm or abandonment, being deprived of social or any other sort of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, verbal abuse, bullying or behaviour that undermines the adults self-esteem and results in them being less able to protect themselves. • Financial abuse.
Emotional/psychological abuse- Emotional abuse, mental abuse a form of mistreatment in which there is intent to cause mental or emotional pain or injury. This includes verbal aggression, statements intended to humiliate or infantilize, insults, threats of abandonment or institutionalization. Some signs of this are feeling of depression, withdrawal from social interaction, isolation from friends and family, low self-esteem, fearfulness, mood changes, self blaming, pessimistic behaviour, avoiding eye contact, aggressive behaviour. Financial abuse – Financial abuse can be any of the following- someone making you take your money out of the cash machine for them, taking money from you, borrowing money and never giving it back, stealing your belongings, someone getting you to sign something and you don't know what it is, someone taking your pension or other benefit, someone asking for money for visiting you socially. Signs of this are Unpaid bills.
Unit 4: Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care 1.1 Define the following types of abuse; Physical, Sexual, emotional/psychological, financial, self-neglect, neglect by others. - Physical abuse is any unwanted or intentional contact involving force. - Sexual abuse is any sexual action or pressure to make someone do something sexual without their consent. It can also include removing a person’s choice - like taking away the availability of birthing control or condoms, or forcing a person to perform a sexual action they are not willing to do. - Emotional and Psychological abuse can include a wide range of controlling behaviour without being physical, but causing emotional problems.
Assignment 204 Task Ai: Physical Abuse: Physical abuse is involving contact intended to cause intimidation, injury or physical suffering. Sexual Abuse: The forcing of unwanted sexual activity by an individual on another, by using threats or coercion to obtain an outcome detrimental to the victim. Emotional/psychological abuse: Emotional or psychological abuse involves assault to the victim by either acts, threats of acts or coercive tactics, to obtain an outcome detrimental to the victim while using emotional blackmail or threats of blackmail. Financial abuse: Financial abuse is defined when a person usually dominating the victim in some way, uses the victims’ finances or financial assets for uses other than their intended use, i.e. to pay bills etc.
Assignment 204 Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care AI). Types of abuse Physical: Including hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking or injuring someone or misuse of medication. Sexual: Including rape, sexual assault or pressuring someone into sexual acts they haven’t consented to, don’t understand or feel powerless to refuse. Emotional: Including threats of harm or abandonment, isolation, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse, or witholding services or supportive networks. Financial or material: Including theft, fraud, misuse of property, possessions, benefi ts, and deliberate or premeditated mismanagement of fi nances.
Mental and emotional abuse can be between couples in a relation; siblings; elderly abuse or abusing one's peers. Including emotional abuse, threats of harm or abandonment, deprivation of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse, isolation or withdrawal from services or supportive networks Financial abuse is a form of mistreatment and fraud in which someone forcibly controls another person's money or other assets. It can involve, for instance, stealing cash, not allowing a victim to take part in any financial decisions or preventing a victim from having
This abuse can be physical, emotional, psychological, financial or sexual.This can include hitting, kicking, biting, shoving, restraining, slapping, throwing objects, threats, controlling or domineering behaviour, intimidation and stalking. Physical injuries, depression, anxiety, nightmares/flashbacks, fear, panic attacks, anger confusion, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, mistrust, suicidal, shame and difficulty to establish trust in new relationships. Discriminatory Discriminatory abuse involves picking on or treating someone unfairly because something about them is different, for example it may be: age, clothing or appearance, ethnicity, nationality or culture including traits like language, gender, health (such as AIDS) or disability (i.e. mental disorders), lifestyle or occupation, race or skin colour, religion or political affiliation, sexuality and sexual orientation,