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Stress is a person’s reaction and response to stressors, while stressors are events that cause stress for individuals. It is something that humans, in general, experience everyday in either their professional, social, or personal lives. Stress has a big impact on the human’s well-being, way of behaving, mood, and their psychological health as a whole. Those stressful events impact both children and adults. Young and healthy people‘s response to stressful life events can be adaptive which basically doesn’t affect their health and welfare, while old and unhealthy people’s responses to the same stress may have a huge influence upon their health. The most studied stressors, which are sexual/physical/emotional abuse, divorce conflicts, and violence …show more content…

Acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress symptoms have as feature Traumatic events that include bad injuries and death chocks. There are plenty of other consequences of stress on the human’s health such as the increase in sleep disorders, fatal accidents rate, eating disorders, smoking, and consumption of alcohol and drugs.
Nowadays, child maltreatment or abuse is very predominant in our communities and has several negative effects on victims. Psychological impacts of abuse can be resumed in emotional dysregulation, personality issues, low academic performance, distress, attachment problems, intimacy avoidance, and provocative behaviors. Child abuse may also lead to difficulties in terms of concentration, difficulties in trying to interact with people and connect with the external world, dissociation, and …show more content…

Stressful events were ranked in the context of threat and dependence. The relationship between stressful events and depression onset was tested by time survival examination analyzing the connection between dependence and stressful event’s effects and by a co-twin control analysis. When independent stressful events were much related with the start of depression, while the threat’s level was measured, the connection and association was even stronger for dependent stressful

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The Blue Knot Foundation provides information on one specific childhood trauma called child abuse, he explains the types of child abuse that happens in the world and the impacts of them upon children and their future health. It goes beyond that and states how abuse can be prevented. In articles that follow the impact that child abuse has on the brain is explained in detail with the impact on the cortex and limbic system being stated first and then how differently the left and right parts of the brain can be changed or impacted due to the trauma. The author shares that trauma effects the brain in such a way that thyroid production is effected and stress hormones are changed which becomes a lasting effect. That then lead to the fact that gene expression and generations after the effected person can now be effected by a single person’s childhood trauma or child abuse.

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Trauma will affect children’s development because it does give an impact to their emotion that relate to their behaviour. Traumatise children likely will develop fear and tend to be too sensitive into something that may remind them of the trauma and possibility being aggressive in such a way thinking they need to protect themselves. They tend to have lack in their emotion and may not coping themselves with their surrounding well. Difficulty to get themselves into the surrounding, chances they will reduce their involvement in learning or playing or being around with other people. For not having much interaction may affect their language development and probably having a social issue.

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The study by Child Abuse and Neglect and the Brain—A Review Authors Danya Glaser First published: January 2000Full publication history DOI: 10.1111/1469-7610.00551, that the shows that injury can cause some terrible affects to the brain which in turn affects the attachment with the child and parent. Whole this damage of the brain can affect the physical ability to have secure attachment, issues relating to the cognitive ad emotions; behaviour of the child also comes into play. A child who has is unaware of the response from the carer giver will have unsecure attempt (reference text

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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

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Stress is something we all go through and over time our stress beings to build up. Many believe that stress starts to impact one 's life by the time they start middle school or the beginning of their teenage years. The transition from elementary to middle school into high school can be very intense. Students become highly influenced by their surroundings which makes them susceptible to descended into unhealthy coping mechanisms. At this point in time their lives are shifting dramatically, they will be encountering many different people.

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The Call of the Wild, by Jack London does relate to Darwin’s theory of natural selection and that only the fittest survive. The theme is that you must adjust and be strong in order to survive. Life will not always be easy and you never know when your circumstances and living conditions will change. In The Call of the Wild, Buck is first living with a judge on a plush plantation.

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Abuse is another thing that has been linked, to problems in a child 's development. The earlier abuse and neglect occur in a child 's life the more severe the impact. Furthermore, the stage of development, while the abuse occurs will influence the type and severity of the consequences. Additionally, the more chronic and long lasting the abuse and neglect, the more harmful it is. When the abuse and neglect are caused, by parents or another significant figure a child, becomes confused because their supposed source of safety is the source of their harm.(Frederico 343).

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The Wounded Heart The book The Wounded Heart is a book written for the purpose of offering hope for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse. The book examines the reality there are so many victims of sexual abuse who are now adults, and are still suffering the consequences of the abuse they encounter as child, and how these sexual abuse have not only destroy their trust in people, but it has damage their current relationships, how it has impacted their dreams for the future, it has caused people to suffer from anxiety, depression, stress, anger, how it has made them feel with a sense of guilt and shame, even though it was not their fault. This book takes a look at the issues related to sexual abuse, while also looking for God for peace and

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In the article “ The Developmental Impact of Child Abuse on Adulthood: Implications for Counselors,” Adultspan Journal explains the multiple effects of child abuse. The authors April Sikes and Dancia Hays explain how child abuse has an extremely negative effect on children as they transition into adulthood. These effects can be physical, social, and even mental. Being treated badly as a child increases the risks in social development. Some examples of this are substance abuse, criminal behavior, violence, and risky sexual behavior.

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In terms of emotions, the child may be on the “baseline of unease, intermediate states of anxiety or extreme panic, fury and despair” (108). This may be because of an unsteady attachment in childhood due to the fact that most child abuse happen in a family-like environment. Herman mentions that the emotional and behavioral impact of chronic child abuse go hand in hand. People who experience chronic child abuse or neglect believe that the only way to end the emotional state that they are in is through self injury (109). The earlier on in childhood the abuse or neglect was, the more repetitive and severe the self harm is (109).

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Informative Speech Outline: Child Abuse Purpose At the end of my presentation, the audience will be able to explain what child abuse is, the three most common types of child abuse and list the impacts that child abuse has on the victim. Introduction Remember when you were a child, and try to remember what your biggest fear was. The one fear that made your heart beat so fast you can almost burst out of your own chest.

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INTRODUCTION Stress is a word derived from Latin word “Stingere” meaning to draw tight. (Mojoyinola, 2008) Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you feel threatened, your nervous system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, and including adrenaline and cortisol, which rouse the body for emergency action. Your heart pounds faster, muscles tighten, blood pressure rises, breath quickens, and your senses become sharper. These physical changes increase your strength and stamina, speed your reaction time, and enhance your focus.

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