Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care

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1. Know how to recognise signs of abuse. 1.1 The following are definitions of the types of abuse: * Physical abuse can be defined as a person being hit, punched, kicked, slapped, pushed, thrown, pinched, shaken, strangled, suffocated, hit or beaten with an object, stabbed, burnt or scalded. * Sexual abuse can be defined as any forced or coerced involvement in sexual activity. * Emotional/Psychological abuse can be defined as intimidation and threats, humiliation, racial, sexual or homophobic abuse, harassment and excluded/isolated from people or activities. * Financial abuse can be defined as any act of theft of money or property or use of money or property without a person’s consent, or without the appropriate legal authority. * Institutional abuse is any abuse that is carried out in; a care home, nursing home, acute hospital or in-patient setting. * Self neglect is a behavioural or habitual condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs. * Neglect by others is when signs of neglect are identify/recognised and ignored by others apart from the affected party. 1.2 Identifying the signs and/or symptoms associated with each type of abuse: Types of abuse | Signs and/or symptoms | Physical abuse | Signs that physical abuse is taking place include injuries that are consistent with physical abuse, injuries that are the shape of objects, presence of several injuries of a variety of ages, injuries that have not received medical attention, a person being taken to many different places to receive medical attention, pressure sores, skin infections, dehydration, unexplained weight changes or medication being "lost". It may include physical conditions that mean a person is restrained or imprisoned (e.g. locks that the person cannot use, wheel chair tyres deflated).The abused person display signs that they are afraid
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