Unit 204: Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care Know how to recognise signs of abuse There are several different types of abuse, such as physical abuse and financial abuse. Each type of abuse is carried out in different ways and has various impacts on the victim. Unfortunately many service users become victims of abuse, in its many forms. Physical abuse can be inflicted on a service user in a number of ways such as punching, kicking or pulling their hair. Physical abuse is the act of violence on an individual that causes pain.
One U.S. study found that parents with documented substance abuse, most commonly alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, were much more likely to mistreat their children, and were also much more likely to reject court-ordered services and treatments (Besharov, 1990). Children with a history of neglect or physical abuse are at risk of developing psychiatric problems, or a disorganized attachment style. Disorganized attachment is associated with a number of developmental problems, including dissociative symptoms, as well as anxiety, depressive, and acting out
They may become more aggressive and display a lot of self-destructive behaviour. Sexual abuse, normally a child is pressured into form of sexual activity such as penetration, oral sex forced to watch pornography. Neglect is when there is no provision made for the child’s safety and this can take place in the forms of; lack of food, clothes, shelter, education, medical care and health Describe the risks and possible consequences for children and young people using the internet, mobile phones and other technologies In the real world children and young people are vulnerable and may knowingly or unknowingly expose themselves to danger when
Child prostitution is when a minor, a person who is under the legal age that is determined by a particular government or society, engages in performing sex acts for financial gain. Usually the child prostitute is a victim of kidnapping or a runaway and is under the control of some sort of pimp. Children are easily influenced and cannot be expected to understand the ramifcations of selling their bodies. Children, especially those who are abused at home, abondoned by their parents or that live in poverty are most likely to fall into the expertly woven web of a pimp. Sadly, there are maybe as many as ten million child prostitues-some as young as age five-and the number keeps climbing.
: Physical abuse may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning, or scalding, drowning, suffocating or anything that can cause harm to somebody. Sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is the involvement of vulnerable adults in sexual activities which they do not fully comprehend or unable to give consent either verbally or by their behaviour. In other words, sexual abuse involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. Emotional / Psychological abuse.
1.1 Define the following types of abuse Physical abuse: Physical abuse may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning, or scalding, drowning, suffocating or anything that can cause harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer falsifies the symptoms or may deliberately cause a child to have ill health; this can be known as Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy. Sexual abuse: sexual abuse involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact, including penetrative (e.g. rape or beggary) or non-penetrative acts.
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.
Not only does social rejection cause stress and aggression in a young child, it results in stress among the family due to the child’s behavioral changes. Robert M. Hodapp. “Mental Retardation: II. Contextual Issues.” Development and Disabilities
It is also associated with perpetration of violence (for males) and being a victim of violence (for females). Impact on children Children who grow up in families where there is violence may suffer a range of behavioural and emotional disturbances. These can also be associated with perpetrating or experiencing violence later in life. Intimate partner violence has also been associated with higher rates of infant and child mortality and morbidity (e.g. diarrhoeal disease, malnutrition).
For example, “The emotional responses of children who witness domestic violence may include fear, guilt, shame, sleep disturbances, sadness, depression, and anger (Domestic Violence Round Table, 2015).” It is evidently clear that children who come from abusive families may incur problems later in life as they establish and build personal and private relationships. For example, children that are exposed to their mother who is verbally, physically, or sexually abused may develop problematic relationships because of experienced aggression. This aggression may be taken out on peers, or even their own mother. When a child continuously is a witness in seeing their mother abused in any way, chances are they may display or express