Forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults Types of abuse Abuse is mistreating another person by violating a person’s human and civil rights. The abuse can vary from treating someone with disrespect in a way which significantly affects the person's quality of life, to causing actual physical suffering. Abuse can happen to anyone, even in a healthcare setting such as, a residential or nursing home, a hospital, at a day care centre or an education environment, in supported housing or in the street. Vulnerable people are more at risk of being abused, such as people with learning, sensory or physical disability, older people who are more dependent on help from others. People with mental health problems or with dementia.
The perpetrator may have been abused as a child; violence may have become a means of resolving disputes in the family/social network. Family history of violence. The stress of caring for a physically and/or mentally frail adult without adequate support can lead to abusive behavior towards the adult. Other events may have occurred to exacerbate the situation, such as a job loss, moving house, the death of a significant other, or financial problems. Dependency on the vulnerable person for money, shelter or emotional support can arouse resentment, sometimes abuse.
I had a deep sense of violation in my own home. Once I got passed that emotion I transitioned to anger. I didn’t know what to think about the incident, I called the police. I could not believe the impact of what my son’s friend’s decision to rob us had on me. When the police arrived, I went into detail on the items that were missing and the actions in which I found the situation.
Traumatized In J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye the protagonist Holden has induced trauma and has trouble overcoming it. A trauma is a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience, that can’t be overcome for an extended time or for life. As Lance Viceroy tells in her book trauma and survival,” traumatic experience can produce a sometimes indelible effect on the human psyche that can change the nature of an individual’s memory, self-recognition, and relational life.” Holden’s obsession with past reviles his trauma the fact that he cannot deal with that things change overtime. He hates the idea that Jane would've taken her kings out of the back row.
It can come from illegal drug dealing, gang violence and also parental and adult influence. There has been a physically challenged influence on this as well. If someone has been injured and have to have something replaced in their bodies by steel or micro bone, then that could also be considered as a domestic weapon against someone. Vandalism is malicious. When a person becomes a malcontent, it is an influence that causes the destruction of someone else’s personal belongings or property.
Unfortunately, if an individual is choosing to become homeless there are often much bigger, darker rooted problems. For example, an individual in an abusive domestic relationship may choose to leave their home without a place to go for fear of their own safety. I believe it is important that an individual has the ability to maintain autonomy in knowing that when circumstances such as these arise society has adequately prepared to help. Such help may include shelters for victims of domestic abuse and transition homes so that self-improvement may be encouraged. Unfortunately poverty and homelessness are so intertwined that those who find themselves living on the streets often enter a vicious cycle that may inhibit self-improvement and according to Mills may then affect the general welfare of
People are vulnerable to financial abuse because they may have a mental health or physical disability and can not stand up for themselves. They could be to young to no what is happening also be an elderly person who is to scared to say anything or help themselves as they may feel scared. Institutional Loss of confidence, self esteem and control , and submissive behaviour can also be a sign and symptom of institutional abuse. People are vulnerable to institutional abuse as they may be elderly or young people so cant stand up for themselves or some people may not no anything different if that’s all they no. also this abuse could affect people as it is held in a care home or nursery etc.
The risk of elder abuse becomes even greater when the caregiver is responsible for an older person who is sick or is physically or mentally impaired. Caregivers in such stressful situations often feel trapped and hopeless and are unaware of available resources and assistance. If they have no skills for managing difficult behaviors, caregivers can find themselves using physical force. Particularly with a lack of resources, neglectful situations can
For example, an individual is said to have Hoarding Disorder when they refuse to get rid of their belongings, no matter the value. Throwing away such belongings distresses the individual, and hence this leads to the hoarding of these items, which clog up areas of work or residence (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). However, some of these behavioural symptoms seem to resemble that of rag-and-bone men (karang guni) in Singapore. Like individuals with Hoarding Disorder, these rag-and-bone men collect and accumulate many items in their homes or workplaces. Even though these items might not have any value, many still
Sometimes, it gets so embarrassing that people would rather be homeless or do something crazy so that no one would see their home. If there is a fire, moreover, then the person cannot get out of the home because he would have to climb over the mountainous piles of useless items that grabs them and pulls them back. The hoarder’s home, consequently, has a higher risk than most people have for getting a formation of mold in the home. They start piling things and stacking garbage that does not move from its place, so the mold is able to grow under the clutter and could slowly devour the home. Some cases of hoarding are so bad, however, that the hoarder even keeps the garbage and, yet again, increase the risk of getting mold in the house.