The case depicts Inez, an African American women, and Juan, a Mexican American dealing with their daughter's behavior. Although the case depicts the dilemma as to whether, Abbey, the counselor acted in the appropriate manner as a mandated reporter, she could have looked into environmental risk factors. Inez is a mother that is struggling with ongoing racism as a nurse at work, while Juan the father has had recent changes at work. Abbey as a mandated reporter actions to reporting the abuse in the case files was valid, however, the social worker and police are in charge of finding evidence for any physical abuse. The counselor will need to determine issues of confidentiality, cultural competence/biases, and duty to warn.
Hmong Community on Child Maltreatment Child maltreatment happens to any child regardless of their ethnicity groups, age, education, financial status, or living condition. Among the race/ethnicities in the United States, Asian has the lowest rate of living in poverty and the lowest rate of child abuse (IRP, 2012). Understanding the impact that poverty has on child maltreatment challenged the writer to look at a certain ethnicity group. The Hmong community is a group of people that can relate to both poverty and child maltreatment. Studies had shown that poverty has an impact on child abuse, yet there are not many reports made from the Hmong community in regards to child maltreatment.
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
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
The impact of the violence and racial injustice experienced by the black community often goes
William Henry Harrison founded Vincennes in 1801. Vincennes was the first college of Indiana. It is also a public college. Compared to most colleges, Vincennes is fairly cheap for a two year college. Vincennes university is specifically known for their Conservation Law school.
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.
In the same article it was also stated that, “Researchers found that childhood maltreatment was a risk factor for officially recognized delinquency, violent self-reported delinquency and moderate self-reported delinquency. Overall, child maltreatment appeared to be a risk factor for more serious delinquency, such as assaults, but not lesser forms of delinquency, such as underage drinking.” Another form of juvinile behavior they partake in, often tends to lead to drug abuse. They grew up with it being okay to hit someone just for the sake of it. They become used to the idea that these things are normal and they rarely look to see what the consequences of their actions will be in the near future.
Much like incestual abuse, physical abuse has grossly negative effects on its victims. The article Child Abuse, Social Support, and Social Functioning in African African American Children states that “abused children experience higher rates of both internalizing and externalizing symptoms that often lead to mental disorders” (Lamis). Similar to incest victims, many physical abuse victims go unacknowledged and untreated, resulting in devastating
Aishah Abdul-matin Mr. J. Partin English 112-FON07 04/01/18 Annotated Bibliography Peled, Einat, et al. The meaning of running away for girls. Child abuse & neglect, vol. 33, no. 10, Oct. 2009, pp. 739-749 In this article, Einat Peled focuses on how run-away girls leave home and the meaning they attribute to it.
I think culture insensitivity is someone being physically and mentally abused and or teased and bullying someone, this is wrong no matter what the situation is , these people suffer inside and feel pain from the abuse and this can cause emotional problems, and can lead to depression for them if they have to put up with this on a daily basis, this happens a great deal in my line of work, we never can be sure what a person is actually dealing with in their own life, they may be getting abused at home, or have an unpleasant situation at home they have to deal with we don’t know, and when they have to get this kind of treatment away from there home this can be very hard for that person, I have experienced these situations many times
Child abuse is, thus, the outcome of having cultured or experienced dysfunctional childcare practices, or not having learned these practices. For instance, someone may have violent behavior because he or she has learned it from other aggressive role models, thus they will rely on such ways to discipline their own children as punishment. Though this is theory takes into accounts the importance of the development of an adult, it could not explain why although boys and girls are likely to be abused, still men are mostly represented among the offenders. It could not suffer any abuse become abuser (CORBY, 1993; 2000; BROUGHAM, 1997; BROWNE, 1995; DEACON AND GOCKE,
Each year in America alone, an estimate of two million children, ranging from infants to teenagers go through minor or major kinds of abuse which include neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual maltreatment. According to the National American Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, neglect represented 54% of confirmed cases of child abuse, physical abuse represented 22%, sexual abuse represented 8%, emotional maltreatment represented 4%, and other forms of maltreatment represented12%. It also indicates that child abuse is far more common in single-parent families than in families where both parents are
Introduction Cultural differences has been one of the research interests of psychologists since culture shape how we perceive the outside word. Culture does influence process of perception and attention. During the process of perception, people from western culture tend to be context-independent while people from eastern culture tend to be context-dependent. These cultural differences can be attributed to different social practices (Nisbett, & Miyamoto, 2005). Some scholars also proposed that cultural differences influence formation of individualism and collectivism, which further influence many factors, including cognitive style (Oyserman, & Lee, 2008).
Early Americans did not consider child abuse a crime. ”Children over the age of 7 were made to work as hard as adults of the time period. They were beaten if they did not. Child abuse happens with children of all ages, gender, and religions, in any period of time. “ Likewise, the world can be identified as a bad bad bad place, where child abuse occurs around the world, and is even in the United States.
