ipl-logo

Child Abuse And Neglect Learning And Helping Strategy: A Case Study

637 Words3 Pages

Childhood Abuse and Neglect Learning and Helping Strategy
Child abuse has become widespread and an endless calamity across our Nation—in God’s eyes it is a sin. Children that experience early childhood abuse and neglect come from all walks of life with no preset distinction of the income status, level of education, societal, religious conviction, or age groups. Many believe the background of violence in families is a repeated series due to an ex-abused becoming an abuser. Unfortunately, many people think that abuse has visible signs, however the truth is that abuse falls into different types: verbal, physical, emotional, neglect, and also sexual. Any form of abuse can be extremely overwhelming and devastating to any childhood—sadly a child may never overcome the damage from this early childhood experience. “One in ten children may be experiencing some form of neglect” (Daniel, 2015, p.86). Abuse in the form of neglect carriers higher long-term risk on mental, physical, behavioral, learning abilities, and emotional intellect (Daniel, 2015). Many victims of abuse hide within the vast shadows in anticipation of being …show more content…

Child protection start’s with the legal parent, but also extends to community members too—it is society’s moral obligation and responsibility. In society the elderly expects a level of respect from the upcoming youth. When adult members of a community get involved in helping prevent child abuse they are teaching tomorrows generation the importance of their existence too. Child abuse awareness begins with understanding the signs. What is child abuse and what does it look like? Child abuse is any action of maltreatment against a minor child that causes non-accidental verbal, physical, emotional, sexual exploitation, including neglect (non-care of physical appearance, unsupervised, emotional hindrance, medical attention, educational

Show More
Related
1565 Words | 7 Pages

Nor is there any single description that captures all families in which children are victims of abuse and neglect” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children 's Bureau, 2003). Research has recognized that there are numerous risk factors or characteristics parents or caregivers may show or have experienced that could increase the likelihood of child maltreatment, e.g., financial instability, participation in social service programs, family factors such as: age, personality, substance abuse, history of maltreatment stress, domestic violence; environmental factors and disabilities (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children 's Bureau, 2003 & 2015). Because of the data, these commonalities are able to be precursors leading up to child abuse or maltreatment but many times it is hard to measure the severity of them and therefore they may end up undetected (U.S DHHSA

Read More
2249 Words | 9 Pages

The incidence of child abuse and neglect has increased dramatically in the past 25 years; the statistics have risen over 130% since 1980 with 1993 being the first year since 1972 in which the number was less than the previous year. Throughout the years child abuse has had a greater impact on the United States and more thorough research has been brought out. The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations, losing more than four children on average every day to child abuse and neglect.(cite source) Among the many forms of child abuse are emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Physical abuse has statistically been in the lead since the 1980’s at 45%, while emotional abuse has been at 22% and sexual abuse has been at

Read More
1027 Words | 5 Pages

CPS 617 A: Assess.& Treatment of Child Abuse MeeSoo Lee Reaction Paper from chapter 1 to chapter 6 1. family abuse landscape “Abuse in the family” has been long in the history, however, it was not until the article called battered child syndrome (Kempe, et al., 1962) was appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and started getting attention form professionals. Before that, culturally parents used to be thought to have a right to treat their children and also battered women’s shelters appeared with the term “spouse abuse” in 1972. I think it is very important that the issue is being able to get appropriate

Read More
618 Words | 3 Pages

Child Abuse, All Grown Up “Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.” (Pelzer, 1995) Dave Pelzer, the author of A Child Called It, wrote the story of his own childhood where he was maliciously abused by his mother from when he was four until he was twelve. Pelzer was able to pull himself into society after making it through foster homes and the U.S. Air Force, and is now using his story to teach resilience in self-help seminars. Unfortunately, not every child subjected to this maltreatment makes it through life, it is horrifying to know that in 2021, the National Children’s Alliance estimated that 1,820 children died from child abuse in the United States.

Read More
1178 Words | 5 Pages

Child neglect is not always easy to spot. Sometimes, a parent might become physically or mentally unable to care for a child, such as with a serious injury, untreated depression, or anxiety. Other times, alcohol or drug abuse may seriously impair judgment and the ability to keep a child safe” (Smith, Segal). This illustrates that children are dependent with adult parental advice until the age of 14. Kids need the proper care from adults to point them to the right direction.

Read More
957 Words | 4 Pages

Even if the treatment is not called abuse, it is neglect in the least. The conflict is the un-naming of the situation rather using negative imagery and giving an astounding description of the plight of the basement child. The fault hardly lies in the narrator as the Child Welfare League of America cannot even come up with definite rights and wrongs “Even if researchers adhere to the commonly used categories of physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and emotional abuse, problems arise.” (Curtis, 409-411). Hicks and Stein created a study where they attempted to define child abuse, neglect identifying the thoughts of those that were neglected, and possible interventions.

Read More
776 Words | 4 Pages

Annotated Bibliography American Academy of Pediatrics. "Child Abuse and Neglect: the section of child abuse and neglect (SOCAN). " n.d. A. aap Organizaton Website. Print. 22 November 2016.

Read More
692 Words | 3 Pages

Research has consistently found that child abuse and neglect (maltreatment) increases the risk of lower academic achievement and problematic school performance. These children have suffered significant emotional stress during critical periods of early brain development and personality formation, the support they require is reparative as well as

Read More
1386 Words | 6 Pages

It focuses on the death from abuse and neglect of nearly 68% of children 4 years old and younger. The consequences of child maltreatment can be severely damaging to a child and can result in poor health, depression, cancer, premature death, and substance abuse into adulthood. It talks about the different type of abuse and neglect whether physical, medical, educational, emotional and sexual. Abandonment is the most common type of commitment in contradiction of children. It also focuses on the solutions and outcomes of helping new parents gain knowledge of basic parenting skills by matching new families with trained nurses or

Read More
785 Words | 4 Pages

It is not always easy to tell if a child is being abused or not because children who are abused are often afraid to speak out because they are fearful of being blamed (Almond Ed. 16). Neglect represents the most common type of reported and substantiated form of maltreatment. Twenty- two states provide the

Read More
1326 Words | 6 Pages

Children in the first five years of life are the most vulnerable to traumatic death and injury as the result of interpersonal violence, neglect, and accidents (Osofsky and Lieberman, American Psychologist, 2011). The focus of this research paper is to break down the several types of abuse and the trauma associated within, and how the different types of abuse affect the development of children. Also, to explore some of the many factors that determine whether a child is abused or not. With abuse being a loosely used term, the overlapping and the interrelationships between the four different subtypes of child abuse (sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect), make it harder to evaluate each individual type and its effects

Read More
909 Words | 4 Pages

Abstract The following essay contains research about the long term effects of child abuse .The evidence shows that abuse is an extreme issue and can result in both physical and mental health problems and an increased chance for suicide. Child abuse can result in serious long term sequelae . Child abuse and neglect is any type of behavior , by an adult that is outside of the norms of conduct , and can entail a substantial amount of emotional or physical harm to a child .

Read More
1766 Words | 8 Pages

Maltreatment has a severe impact on a child’s current and future functioning and development regarding their emotional, social, cognitive, behavioral, and physical wellbeing.(Frederico 345). Different types of abuse, such as physical, emotional, and sexual have different consequences, but the consequences of all maltreatment, are likely to happen in three stages. Firstly, a child may have an initial reaction such as post-traumatic symptoms, painful emotions, and cognitive distortions. Secondly, children develop coping strategies that are aimed to help increase their safety or reduce their pain. Thirdly, a child 's sense of self-worth is damaged and develop the feeling of shame and hopelessness..

Read More
1472 Words | 6 Pages

So far in America, one of the leading crimes is child abuse. Many Americans are not aware of the long-term effect that child abuse causes. Situations that happen during the developing years can and do have a lasting effect on the victim. Being a toddler the up bringing is not always so bright and colorful as it’s said to be, traumatic events often occur without notice. Since children are not able to fight back they become vulnerable and easy targets.

Read More
818 Words | 4 Pages

Childhood abuse is like being on a rollercoaster; you are in the hands of the controller and do not know when it is going to end. Abuse comes in many forms and has many side effects that tag along. Throughout this essay, it will follow three forms of abuse: physical, sexual and emotional and will pinpoint/focus on symptoms, long term vs short term effects and statistics in society. “Any abuse can cause children to have elevated risk behaviour. Not all children will or can experience these, but there may be an increased liability for it to happen” (Childwelfare 2).

Read More

More about Child Abuse And Neglect Learning And Helping Strategy: A Case Study

Related Topics

Open Document