•Financial abuse is the illegal or unauthorised use of a person’s property, money, pension book or other valuables. •Institutional abuse involves failure of an organisation to provide appropriate and professional individual services to vulnerable people. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour that amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, stereotyping and rigid systems. •Self-neglect is a behavioural condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding, or tending appropriately to any medical conditions they have. •Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which the perpetrator is responsible to provide care, for someone, who is unable to care for oneself, but fails to provide adequate care to meet their needs.
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.
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.
Abuse can be • Physical – such as hitting, slapping, rough handling, misuse of medication, misuse of restraint. • Sexual – making someone carry out a sexual act they have not or cannot consent to. • Psychological – such as threats or humiliation. • Financial - such as theft of money/possessions, misuse of someone’s benefits. • Neglect – such as carer not meeting a person’s care or health needs.
Eg stealing or borrowing money from a confused individual or withholding pension or cheques from an individual. Signs/Symptoms :- Unexplained sudden inability to pay for bills or maintain lifestyle, unpaid bills, unusual or inappropriate bank account transfers, withholding money, recent changes to property deeds, will or insurance policies,
Having no consent or abusing a person who is unable to give consent due to illness or mental state is sexual abuse. Pressuring someone into any kind of sexual activity or showing inappropriate sexual material such as pornography is abuse. Asking inappropriate questions or revealing sexually inappropriate things about yours to a vulnerable person is also classed as abuse. Signs/symptoms: There are physical and psychological signs and symptoms of sexual abuse. Physical
This will usually be alongside another form of abuse. * Institutional abuse- this could mean poor or unsatisfactory professional practice, ill treatment and gross misconduct. * Financial abuse- this could include theft, fraud, exploitation. * Neglect by others- ignoring medical or physical care needs. Stopping a persons right to the necessities such as medication, nutrition and heating.
to pay bills etc. Institutional Abuse: Institutional abuse is the maltreatment of a person, usually an adult or young person, from a system of power. This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse and hunger to the effects of gaining control of the victim to modify their behaviour, in a harsh or unfair manner. Self-neglect: This is a behavioural condition, in which the individual neglects attention to their own basic needs, such as person hygiene, correct clothing, nutritional needs or even tending appropriately to any medical needs. Neglect by others: Neglect by other is a passive form of abuse, when a partner or friend is no longer able to tend to his or her own needs and you are aware of those needs but choose not to tend to them.
• financial abuse: Includes ; theft, fraud, exploitation, pressure in connection with wills, property or financial transactions. • institutional abuse: Involves; the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to vulnerable people. It includes a failure to ensure the necessary safeguards are in place to protect vulnerable adults and maintain good standarts of care in accordance with individual needs. • self neglect: Includes; behavioural condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding, or tending appropriately to any medical conditions they have. • neglect by others: Includes ;ignoring medical or physical care needs , failure to provide access to appropriate health, social care or educational services.
Unit 4222-205 Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care(HSC 024) OUTCOME 1 1.Define the following types of abuse: * Physical abuse: is the non-accidental infliction of physical force that results in bodily injury, pain or impairment.Examples: hitting,slapping,kicking,inappropriate restraint or sanctions,force feeding,misuse of medication * Sexual abuse: is a direct or indirect involvement in sexual activity without valid consent. Consent to a particular activity may not be given because: * A person has capacity and does not agree with it; * A person lacks capacity and is therefore unable to agree with it; * A person feels coerced into activity because the other person is in a position of trust, power or authority. Examples of Sexual Abuse * Unwanted physical and sexual contact, e.g. caresses; * Intercourse with someone who lacks the capacity to consent; * Rape; * Indecent exposure; * Sexual harassment (verbal or physical); * Displaying pornographic literature videos or internet sites; * Gross indecency. * Emotional/psychological abuse: is the use of threats, humiliation, bullying, swearing and other verbal conduct, or any other form of mental cruelty, which results in mental or physical distress.