Child Abuse and Neglect

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  1. I'm telling Roy and I'm Katie Davis, and today we
  2. will be discussing child abuse and neglect.
  3. Abuse is a common problem that occurs throughout the world.
  4. Children who experience abuse are taking advantage of unharmed.
  5. For others and Germans.
  6. The first topic we will be discussing is a physical
  7. abuse. The most known form of abuse.
  8. Physical abuse is the act of physically harming a person.
  9. Physical abuse can be done by anyone on purpose.
  10. This means that the abuser is wanting a reaction to
  11. their harm.
  12. A person is able to stop the injuries of physical
  13. abuse. These injuries will include bruises or cuts.
  14. Sometimes the abuser will intentionally hit the child in a
  15. place that is easy to hide.
  16. If a child has been brought to a pediatric center
  17. for medical attention because of abuse, doctors have been supplied
  18. with numerous resources that can display evidence of abuse within
  19. a child's body.
  20. There are three areas which doctors protest and skin in
  21. order to provide sufficient information.
  22. The rack, abdominal trauma, intracranial injuries and skeletal injuries.
  23. Intracranial injuries include the investigation of subdural hematomas, brain injuries
  24. and spinal cord injuries.
  25. The wreck, abdominal and trauma, is predominantly chest and abdominal
  26. injuries, Although it is uncommon in infants, examples of this
  27. trauma consists of pleural effusions, flail chest and preliminary parent
  28. Kimo injury.
  29. Skeletal injuries are injuries that occur within the bones of
  30. the body.
  31. The most common sculptural injuries that result from abuse include
  32. rib rib fractures, skull fractures and femur from natural fractures.
  33. What is neglect?
  34. Neglect is defined as a parents or caretakers inability to
  35. meet a child's basic needs, potentially placing the child at
  36. risk of serious harm.
  37. Unfortunately, the evidence of emotional neglect is nearly impossible to
  38. prove because of this child's Children's brain development is continuously
  39. delayed until they are taken out of a neglected environment.
  40. For example, in a study with Kaspar, Hauser was who
  41. was a child who had been a raised in a
  42. neglectful environment At the age of two.
  43. He had grown up in a cave until he was
  44. around 16.
  45. Once he was found, it was observed that he obtained
  46. delayed emotional and cognitive behaviors, and his base of knowledge
  47. displayed was extremely rudimentary.
  48. The third topic is sexual abuse.
  49. As the Center for Family Justice describes it, sexual abuse
  50. is any unwanted sexual actions performed by another without consent
  51. from the receiving party.
  52. This can include rape, sexual harassment, incest as well as
  53. fondling. There are three ways that Children may show symptoms
  54. of their abuse, physical symptoms, behavioral symptoms and emotional signs.
  55. Physical symptoms are signs such as sexually transmitted as transmitted
  56. diseases or signs of damage done to child's general areas
  57. such as bruising or bleeding.
  58. Behavioral symptoms include actions such as bedwetting, partaking, sexual activities
  59. inappropriate for the child's age and avoiding taking off clothes.
  60. Lastly, emotional symptoms consist of advance communication or knowledge of
  61. sexual activity is becoming fearful or worrisome and resorting back
  62. to old habits they have grown out of, such as
  63. some thumb sucking.
  64. The American Counseling Association has made claims that a plethora
  65. of mental conditions can be linked to early sexual abuse.
  66. In childhood and Children, depression is shown to be the
  67. most common, but other conditions include anxiety, eating disorders, repression,
  68. guilt and self blame.
  69. The Americans Counseling Association reports that relationship problems may occur
  70. along with the disassociative patterns.
  71. What is emotional abuse?
  72. Emotional abuse is defined as the process of constantly discouraging,
  73. mistreating and neglecting a person through for verbal actions.
  74. This can be done through a movement called Gaslighting Gaslighting
  75. is when a person gets their words, emotions and experiences
  76. used against them by their abuser.
  77. Isolation, terrorism, nation ignorance, corruption, verb, verbal assault and over
  78. pressuring common symptoms of emotional abuse can include the child
  79. being insecure or shy.
  80. If a child has been neglected of form of emotional
  81. abuse, the child made B mhm truant.
  82. Or, if they do happen to attend school, they may
  83. look dirty or malnourished in Bruce be Perry's childhood experience
  84. and the expression of genetic potential.
  85. What childhood neglect tells us about nature and nurture, he
  86. talks about Children who does not receive emotional attention can
  87. result in everlasting damage and brain development.