This study should help the researcher to better understand the implications domestic violence has on behavioral problems in children and the time to intervene in order to lessen behavioral problems. Domestic Violence Correlates to Behavioral Problems in Children I became interested in this subject because I work in a home for children and regularly have children in my care that have either been victims of physical abuse or witnessed the physical abuse of a loved one; sometimes they have been both victimized and witnessed the abuse. I want to learn what I can do to help them in the best way that I can. The purpose of this study is to compare how the victimization of the children or their loved ones may cause the children to have greater behavioral problems than children who have not experienced the same and how intervention can help. In the United States violence is extremely widespread and usually targets women and children.
Children are most frequently sexually abused by someone they know, often a member of their own family. Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. And this include Children have been abused physical, sexual and psychological. Other way is that people adopt children to make work for them, to sell to drug dealers or people who buy children for sex. The sadness thing is that children have been abused especially sexual by their own parents or siblings.
A social worker is a government employee who helps families and children in distress. Families who can not manage themselves due to lack of boundaries, violence or abuse are the main target for a social worker in Child welfare. Sometimes families with good insight would seek this kind of social help when needed, but mostly this welfare are forced help from the public. In serious violation of children’s welfare the government may split up families with force to prevent further abuse. Children may be sent to orphanage or foster care, but the decision never com lightly as the mental issues with separating families are obvious.
There are many misunderstandings about child abuse. For example, most people think that child abuse is caused by stepparents. In stories such as Snow White or Cinderella, the people who persecute the heroines are their stepmothers. Surprisingly, however, real parents tend to abuse their children more than stepparents do. In 2000, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said that over 80% of child abuse is perpetrated by the children’s real parents.
Vulnerable Population’s Demographics Abuse comes in many different forms. It can be physical, mental, sexual, and psychological or just plain neglect. The abuse usually is at the hands of loved ones or caretakers. Many children suffer from one form of abuse or another in their young life. Some suffer throughout their whole young adult life and only get away from it when they are grown and move out of the house.
* Physical neglect is the failure to provide for a child's physical survival needs to the extent that there is harm or risk of harm to the child's health or safety. Tennessee Department of Children’s Services receives over 37,000 reports of child abuse or neglect each year. More than 100 children are reported abused or neglected every day. (Department of Children's Services, 2012) Making the decision to report suspected child abuse may be difficult, however it is of great importance. “In most jurisdictions, child protective service (CPS) agencies rely on such reports to open investigations concerning possible child abuse and to begin interventions aimed at protecting the involved child or children, while possibly bringing the perpetrator into the criminal justice system.” (Carleton, 2006) For psychologists
Treatment planning includes a balance of both trauma and behavioral focal point, working on ongoing behavioral problems and behavioral crises, modify distorted thinking so that families could have the knowledge to transfer, and children can learn how to talk through their experiences. Results: Cognitive therapy also incorporated with behavioral therapy practice to manage the behavioral regulation problems that commonly happens in traumatized children. Conclusions: Treating trauma related behavioral problems is a crucial part of trauma-focused treatment and is achievable if practice is done accordingly. This practice is important due to the common nature of behavioral dilemma in traumatized children (Cohen, 2007). CBT 3 Cognitive behavioral therapy is generally psychotherapy and behavioral therapy combined.
Males and females show their emotional feelings accordingly to how they would like to express their feelings. Age really effects how a child is able to express their feelings appropriately, instead of hiding their feelings within. Divorces can change environments for the best however it can cause a lot of stress on the adults in the home. Learning to cope with routine change, family visitations, and how to budget finances based on one income. Divorce has many effects on children and however the parents adjust to the divorce relates to how the child will adjust.
The facts and statistics that I have given you are only some of the numbers reported. Children may see multiple types of abuse on multiple occasions. The statistics being reported are only calculating the reports being made not how many times child maltreatment has actually occurred. With that being said there are children out there who are being abused and/or neglected and are not being properly taken care of to prevent the life-long consequences. I hope that the statistics, information, risk factors and ways to prevent child maltreatment, opened your thoughts of how much it actually does happen and we don’t hear about
It’s costing some of our children their lives. Incidence of Reported Cases of Child Abuse | Type of abuse | Percentage of total | Neglect | 54 | Physical abuse | 25 | Sexual abuse | 11 | Emotional abuse | 3 | Other | 7 | Information from Wang CT, Daro D. Current trends in child abuse reporting and fatalities: the results of the 1996 annual fifty state survey. Chicago: National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, 1997. | Child Abuse Each day in the United States, more than 4 children die as a result of child abuse in the home. www.childhelpusa.org In 2003, an estimated 1,500 children died of abuse and neglect-an average of more than 4 children per day.