...What is abuse and neglect? I have always been against any form of neglect or abuse, and that is starting from children up to the elderly. So, with that being said I tend to think forensic psychologist should act more in the number of abuse and neglect cases that come forth. Neglect and forms of abuse continues to be a serious and ever increasing problem in society. Neglect and forms of abuse has multiple risk factors and the specific risk factors are not known in many cases. Abuse and neglect represent a ongoing problem of alarming proportions, with tremendous psychological and economic affects to both the individuals involved and believe it or not to society. I guess this comes from my last previous jobs and working with children. I can remember working at the shelters and listening to some of the adolescent’s stories, and how their families abused them as a younger child. For example, Mcdonald (2007) emphasizes the responsibility of physicians to recognize child abuse cases immediately. I think there can always be a new direction lead for a better outcome of the abuse. I mean I really didn’t want to get into child abuse. I think every child is vulnerable to abuse; weather it’s at home or out in society. According to research, child abuse seems to be the symptom rather than the cause, so solutions that aim directly at solving child abuse will inevitably fail. It is already clear that most emotional abuse occurs out of parental ignorance regarding constructive disciplinary...
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...Child abuse and child neglect are two different categories under maltreatment. Neglect is not doing your duty to provide a child’s physical and mental needs. An example of child neglect is if a hooked parent on either alcohol or drugs and their judgment might be clouded, making the parent unstable to provide care to a child. On the other hand child abuse is when you’re purposely harming a child physically, mentally and or sexually. An example of child abuse would be a parent tearing down a child by telling them they're “not worth it”; they “will never be exceptional” or even going as far as putting their hands on a child or someone else in front of a child. Both child abuse and child neglect are tremendous issues in today’s society, but neglect...
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...RESEARCH PROPOSAL Introduction: There are millions of young children out in the world who are left alone, unsupported, and mistreated. According to Kids Matter Incorporated, child neglect is the most common form of child mistreatment. It is important for all people to be able to recognize when a child is in the troubled path of neglect. Whether it is physical abuse or emotional abuse, it all needs to be reported and the child needs immediate help. Is neglect just as serious as other, more obvious forms of abuse such as sexual, physical and emotional? Child neglect is a continuing problem because of the lack of knowledge people know about it. People need to be aware of the signs and when a child is in danger and when to step in a get them help. Child neglect is detected in different ways. According to Kids Matter Inc. Recognizing physical abuse can be done by noticing a child’s poor hygiene, seeing a child inappropriately dressed for certain weather occasions, unmet medical or dental needs, malnutrition, or staying late at events such as school or extracurricular activities to avoid home. Emotional signs could be anywhere from a child taking extreme measures to please, always being on the lookout for something bad to happen, or simply just having poor learning abilities. Any of these signs from the physical or emotional abuse are very concerning and are a reach out for help. This topic should be suitable for a short research paper because I am finding great answers to the...
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...Neglect is the most prevalent type of child maltreatment in Canada today. The psychological damage can be more devastating than any other type of abuse and includes inadequate supervision, physical and emotional neglect, medical, dental and educational neglect and the failure to provide the clothing and nutrition vital for survival. Child neglect is often the result of a broken family unit, where a parent or caregiver is either unable or unwilling to provide the care, love and attention required for healthy child development. Neglect as a child affects the development of an individual in various ways. It decreases levels of academic performance, increases the likelihood of drug and alcohol abuse and influences forms of anti-social behaviour. Harm Comes in Many Forms Most human brain growth occurs during the first six years of a person’s life. Extending through early childhood, there are many factors which are relevant to brain development. High levels of nutrition, appropriate stimulation and attention, and emotional support all contribute to healthy brain growth, maximize its productivity and prepare the mind for future learning capability (Loughan, 2012). However, many aspects of a child’s environment can affect maximum brain functioning. A significant and negative environmental factor is neglect. As children enter and progress through school, the ones living in poor families tend to academically perform worse (Loughan, 2012). It is found that children with a history of...
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...Child Neglect: Negative Effects Richard Vergel Psy 2100: Developmental Psychology Fall 2012 Research Paper Outline I. Abstract / Intro II. Body Psychological, and/or social influences of neglect. A theoretical perspective: Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory. Chosen perspective’s view on neglect today. Bidirectional effects between your topic and society. III. Conclusion IV. Reference Page Abstract Psychologists agree that our identity form our personalities. Temperament being one of the main markers that each individual family’s parenting style must be adjusted to fit each child’s individual needs. Psychosocial Theory of Erik Erikson must be examined to see which stage deals with molding a young person’s personality, which leads to identity. What challenges do maladjusted children face? How harmful can neglect be to our personality development? The importance of Identity can be dependent on how watchful parents are, and the help our society offers to parents to raising a child (if available). It’s a boy! Well, I didn’t yell like that when my son was born. Mostly because everyone in the room and outside in the waiting room already knew he was a boy. But the excitement and joy experienced were even more pronounced than in any birth you have ever seen on TV, simply because he was my little boy. The overwhelming feeling of love and instinctive bond was immediate and incredible. But mostly I remember the need to protect and the questions...
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...Child Abuse and Neglect Child abuse is any act taken by another adult or child that will cause remarkable harm to a child. There are many different forms of child abuse, it can be physical, sexual or emotional, but child can also just be about the lack of love and care a child receives. Neglect can also be just as harmful to a child as physical abuse. It is known that if a child is being abused they will often experience more than one type, as well as other difficulties in their lives. This would often happen over a long or short amount of time in the child’s life. Online abuse is also becoming increasingly popular which would count as bullying. Bullying is behaviour that hurts someone else – such as name calling, hitting, pushing,...
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...New York State defines an abused child as a child,18 years old or younger, whose parent or other person legally responsible for his/her care inflicts upon the child serious physical injury, creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury, or commits an act of sex abuse against the child. Abuse may also includes situations where a parent or other person legally responsible knowingly allows someone else to inflict such harm on a child. New York child abuse laws include any type of cruelty inflicted on a child, such as mental abuse, physical abuse, sexual assault or exploitation, and neglect. Abuse is constituted as injury by other than accidental means causing death, disfigurement, impairment of physical or emotional health; deliberate...
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...Mennen et al. (2010) conducted a study to describe the nature of neglect in child welfare clients and to understand how different type of child neglect co-occurred with each other and with other types of child maltreatment (p. 647). The case record was performed on the child welfare case records of an urban, diverse ethnic group of youths that was identified as maltreated, which participated in a National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD). According to Mennen et al. (2010), only 5.0% of the neglected children experienced neglect without another type of maltreatment and the children who were neglected experienced more type of maltreatment than the children who were not victims of neglect (p. 652). According to Mayer et al., children...
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...Neglect is abuse no matter how you say it, and some states allow this type of abuse. 48 states allow medical neglect if it interferes with you religion, and yet in all states child abuse is illegal. This means that if you religion tells you to you can refuse to give your child life saving vaccines and medications, or fail to report illness, injury, and other health defects. Medical neglect is abuse, and these states allow this to happen, which causes many problems including death. This needs to be stopped. In each state the laws based on religion-based medical neglect, or medical neglect in general, are different. 48 states allow religious exemptions, and nineteen states allow philosophical exemptions. “Philosophical exemption indicates that the statutory language does not restrict the exemption to purely religious or spiritual beliefs. Religious exemption indicates that there is a provision in the statute that allows parents to exempt their children from vaccination if it contradicts their sincere religious beliefs.” (source: Exemptions Permitted for State Immunization Requirements, 2004) A child’s health should not be secondary...
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...Abstract This paper gives the following: effective interviewing skills related to children and teens coping with child abuse and neglect and an in-depth discussion of a specific evidenced-based intervention theory to use with either children or teens that have experienced child abuse. The child abuse and neglect paper that I used for my assessment is the Sandra Horton case. The Horton family has many emotional, mental, and physical issues. The primary caregiver is Michelle Horton, a 40 year old- Caucasian, Sandra Father Brad (truck driver), is not involved- Sandra’s father, Todd (married banker) is not involved- Jenny’s father. The children involved are Sandra Horton -15 year old Jenny Horton 10 year old-Caucasian. The case was presented by the school counselor. The counselor tells me that Sandra stated that “mama tied me to the deck with chains last night to stop me from going out again with my boyfriend”. Sandra also said she and her sister “stay alone at night” because their mother, Michelle, works the third shift as an attendant at a service station. The counselor also reports that Sandra is attendant at a service station. As a Senior Social Worker at DHR assigned to the Horton case intervention, the main role I would play is case manager. Case managers are involved in locating services and assisting their clients to access those services. Case management is especially important for complex situations that involve clients who are homeless or elderly...
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...Child Neglect Has An Effect Child neglect has harmful effects to growing children. Future symptoms and effects from neglect are very serious and will lead the future life of children to be very difficult. In 2005 the percentages of children who suffered neglect in the United States was 62.8% ("Child Neglect"). Some who have suffered from such neglect can suffer from a variety of effects such as depression, suicide, and also take up drinking in order to cope with their past ("Child Neglect and Emotional Abuse: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia"). The neglect of a child is nothing to brush aside and ends up hurting everyone in the end. Depression can occur at a very early age in childhood and can even be carried on years into adulthood as well. Depression can be stemmed from the acts of ignoring, rejecting or verbally abusing a child and a pattern of this behavior from the parent can lead to the child's poor self image ("Child Neglect"). By constantly being treated with this behavior, the child begins to think that through the words and actions of the parent that they are worthless and believes it. Parents may try to compensate for the lack of emotional relationship with the child by giving material items they think the child will enjoy and think will gain the affection of the child (Tudoran, Bugolt, 2015). Depression can lead to severe self loathing, self harm, low self esteem, and suicidal thoughts....
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...Child abuse and Neglect to Juvenile Crime TESST College of Technology Juvenile Delinquency September 5, 2012 I believe that maltreatment does influence a juvenile in becoming a delinquent. The juvenile learns that this is acceptable behavior from the people that have the most influence in their lives. Once they realize that this is not a tolerated behavior they tend to act out in all sorts of forms, upon themselves and others. They now hold no fear in defying society. Maltreatment does have an influence upon delinquent behaviors. "Maltreatment is referred to as the parental behaviors that are considered acts intended to inflict physical or psychological harm and that reflect a lack of concern for the adolescent's well-being, sense of self and social competence." (Kilpatrick, Saunders, Benjamin & Smith, 2003). Maltreatment causes neurological damage, deficits in cognitive socio-emotional functioning, and learning of antisocial problem solving and failure in school. Today's society seems out to punish the delinquents for their behavior. Life at home, their morals and values learned through their parents should also be examined as well. Children are like clay, what is molded and pounded into them hardens and is that way until it is melted and restructured. People need to take into consideration how they were raised and what was taught to them their whole life. Yet, there are exceptions to this. Some children just have problems brought about on their own. Prominent...
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...Part I: Mortal selective neglect is a pattern of when the children don’t “knack” and are left alone to die. “The survivors were nurtured, while stigmatized, doomed infants were left to die, as mothers say, a mingua, “of neglect.” Mothers stepped back and allowed nature to take its course.” There is a high expectation of death and the ability to handle child death with stoicism. This forced different patterns of nurturing towards the “born already ‘wanting to die’” and the survivors. The mothers could not waste their time on the babies that were picked out to die. The babies were trying to survive off of the sugar, salt and water solution. The mothers knew better and never wanted the kids to exist. The baby never has a chance, and is already thought of as an angel. The thought of having a son or daughter is not a concern; there is no anticipation of having a child. Scheper-Hughes continued to try and save the toddlers but the woman never supported and wouldn’t attempt to save the baby. “When I carried Zezinho up to the community day-care center at the top of the hill, the Alto women who took turns caring for one another’s children (in order to free themselves for part-time work in the can fields or washing clothes) laughed at my efforts to save Ze, agreeing with Loudes that here was a baby without a ghost of a chance” They argued trying to tell her to leave Ze alone and that there was no reason to fight death. “Another part is learning when it is safe to let oneself love a child...
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...Evidence Based Intervention Report for (Child Neglect) Risk and protective factors for trauma survivors * Risk factors (Child Welfare Information Gateway) * Individual: life stress, acute mental and physical health crises, school problems, family relationship problems, isolation, induced stress, anxiety, fear * Microsystemic: abusive parents, parents with mental or physical health problems, family conflict, bullies, single parent, inappropriate caregivers, antisocial peer groups, domestic violence, parental substance abuse, shuttling from home to foster care, lack of money, power issues in house hold * Mesosystemic: Lack of communication between family and school, parent isn’t involved in child education, lack of friends, lack of supervision from parents and community members, lack of religious community * Exosystemic: Medical neglect, less social contact and support, lack of societal/professional knowledge around neglect, low-income neighborhoods, dangerous neighborhoods, lack of resources, lack of childcare, lack of transportation * Macrosystemic: lack of requirement to register sex offenders, lack of social norms around neglect, fear of reporting abuse * https://www.childwelfare.gov/can/factors/protective_factors.cfm * Protective factors * Individual: low stress, coping strategies, positive self-image, sense of purpose, academic skills, involvement in activities, problem solving skills. * Microsystemic:...
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...is affecting the children of the world? Age, Sex, Race, or Religion does not discern child abuse. Any child can face any of the following abuse at any time, sexual abuse, physical abuse, or even neglect. Approximately 702,000 children were victims of maltreatment. Sexual abuse is the third most common type of abuse that is reported. Just fewer than 10% of these 702,000 were sexual abused. Krugman & Jones define sexual abuse as, “ the involvement of dependent, immature children in sexual activities that they do not fully comprehend and therefore to which they are unable to give informed consent.” The second most reported type of abuse is physical abuse. These statistics show that over 15% of the 702,000 have been physically abused in some way, shape or form. We live in a time period where, physical pain is often used by parents or caretakers to alter or manage a child’s behavior. This parental behavior often exceeds the threshold of social acceptability, and could be defined as physically abusive. The most common type of maltreatment that is experienced is neglect. Over 75% of reported abuse or maltreatment is neglect. There are multiple types of neglect, such as physical neglect, educational neglect, and emotional neglect. Out of these three, emotional neglect is the hardest to determine. One knows if a child is not being physically taken care of or is not going to school. These are just some of the types of abuse that children are put through, but how...
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