...Supportive Relationships that help Reduce Risk of Abuse and Neglect P6: Explain the role of supportive relationships in reducing the risk of abuse and neglect M3: Discuss the role of supportive relationships in reducing the risks of abuse and neglect, using examples In order for a vulnerable individual to feel confident and feel as though their needs are being met, a supportive relationship is essential. A supportive relationship is a relation based on empathy and encouragement and involves the care and support from those around them such as, friends, and family and care workers. Supportive relationships can affect an individual’s health and well-being in a positive way and by having the support of others around them can give the individual confidence and make the individual feel better about themselves. It also means that trust is built between the carer and the cared for, and when something goes wrong, the individual feels that they can go and report it someone who is close to them, who can then go on to resolve the situation. For a new care worker this could prove difficult for them to create any kind of relationship with a client or service user, but they would need to consider both the nature of themselves, and the individual they are supporting’s role. Being a vulnerable adult leads them to being susceptible to various forms of abuse and/or neglect, and because of the very nature of what is happening they may have no idea as to how to respond to the abuse – finding...
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...sexual abuse is a common theme in the back ground of women with bulimia nervosa. This hypothesis has come under much scrutiny and as a result, has been tested and re-tested time and again. Studies have had findings stating everything from, there is no evidentiary support for this hypothesis, to there is a non-specific correlation and yet other studies claim that childhood sexual abuse is a direct risk factor for bulimia nervosa. More recent articles seem to point toward some type of relationship between bulimia nervosa and childhood sexual abuse. The process of finding this information takes some digging. Many search engines (including Medscape, Proquest, and Google’s scholarly article search) were used. Much of the research in this area seems to have been done approximately ten years ago and therefore was not current enough to be used. These older studies also have a common theme in that they tended to lean toward the opinion that bulimia nervosa and childhood sexual abuse are not directly related. The more current articles on this subject agree more with the school of though that bulimia nervosa is closely related to childhood sexual abuse. According to Pearlstein (2002) “Many older studies involved clinical rather than community samples” (p. 5) which may shed some light on why their results showed little to no correlation with bulimia nervosa and childhood sexual abuse. If there is a relationship between childhood sexual abuse and bulimia nervosa, how does the abuse predispose...
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...Outline for Biopsychosocial Report of Sabina Spielrein Date: Age: ____ Gender: _____ F ___ M Race: _________ Marital status: 1. Current Family and Significant Relationships (Include strengths, stressors, problems, recent changes, changes desired, and comments on family and relationship circumstances.) 2. Childhood/Adolescent History (Include developmental milestones, past behavioral concerns, environment, abuse, school, social, and mental health) 3. Social Relationships (Include strengths, stressors, problems, recent changes, changes desired, and comments on current circumstances.) 4. Cultural/Ethnic (Include strengths, stressors, problems, recent changes, changes desired, and comments on current circumstances.) 5. Spiritual/Religious (Include strengths, stressors, problems, recent changes, changes desired, and beliefs/practices to incorporate into therapy.) 6. Legal (Include current and previous legal concerns and their impact on behavior, affect, and relationship.) 7. Education (Include strengths, stressors, problems, recent changes, changes desired, and comments on current circumstances.) 8. Employment/Vocational (Include strengths, stressors, problems, recent...
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...Abuse Experienced by Adults P1: Describe forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults P2: Describe indicators that abuse may be happening to adults Abuse can be a singular act or multiple acts. Abuse can occur in any relationship and can be the direct result of deliberate intent, ignorance or neglect. It may be a criminal offence, such as rape, assault or theft. Abuse can occur anywhere: * In public places * In the victims own home * At work * In hospital * In places of worship * In care homes * At day care The abuser can be anyone, a man or a woman. An abuser could be a * Neighbour * Someone who goes to the day centre * Family member * Volunteer * Paid health or social care worker * Teacher * Clergyman Type Of Abuse | Definition Of The Abuse | Example Of The Abuse | Indicators Of The Abuse | Physical | Physical abuse is a form of abuse involving contact that is intended to cause feelings of intimidation, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm.Physical abuse can occur through withholding care, preventing access to healthcare or applying inappropriate techniques or treatments. It can include forced isolation and confinement, for example, people being locked in their room, and inappropriate methods of restraint. | Striking, punching, pushing, pulling slapping, biting, whipping, striking with an object, kicking, tripping, kneeing, strangling, rape, placing in stress positions (tied...
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...of the grading criteria that the task relates to, example P1, P2. It will finish with a deadline for the task to be completed. Introduction This unit looks at ways in which adults are supported and protected within the health and social care sector by practitioner’s whose main job role is working with adults. The unit covers sensitive subjects including physical, psychological, sexual and financial abuse. It aims to develop your understanding of the differing needs of people who use health and social care services. You will gain understanding of how to develop supportive relationships that respect individual rights, and also an understanding of how such relationships can be abused within health and social care contexts, and the strategies that have been developed to minimize this abuse. The tasks that you complete will involve you doing many different things, such as giving a presentation, writing an essay, and preparing and presenting posters. The learning outcomes of the unit are for you to: 1 Know types and indicators of abuse 2 Understand...
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...|Course Title | Health & Social Care | |Unit Title |11 – Safeguarding Adults & Promoting Independence | |Level |3 | |Part Unit |P4, M2, M3, D2 |Whole Unit | | |Assessor | | |Start Date | |Task 1 (P4) | |You are in charge of a charity that runs a small care home and an adult placement scheme for people with mental health problems. A committee of | |volunteers oversees the charity’s work. | |A new member has been elected to the committee and has a meeting with you to find out more...
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...poem titled "My Papa's Waltz." Roethke is the speaker in the poem and is talking to his father. As he goes through the poem, he talks about the abuse, his mother's reaction, how he could not let go because the man was his father, and how he seems to have mixed feelings about his relationship with him. The author used interesting word choices to make the poem have multiple meanings depending on how someone would interpret it. The first-person speaker and his father have a complex relationship surrounded by an abusive relationship and a mixture of love and fear, yet the speaker does not resent his father. Throughout the poem the father abuses the son, the speaker. Lines 5 and 6 could be interpreted to say the father is being excessively violent towards the son which causes pans to fall off shelves. Lines 9 and 10 also seem to allude to the fact the father hits his son by mentioning the "battered knuckle." A child would be scared to be hit especially if it is their own father and the child is young as he says in the poem. Line 13 says "you beat time on my head." This line could be seen as anytime the speaker was late he would get hit in the head by his father. While the son faces the abuse of his father, he does not appear to...
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...of Abusive Supervision 2 In Predictors of Abusive Supervision: Supervisor Perceptions of Deep-Level Dissimilarity, Relationship Conflict, and Subordinate Performance, authors Tepper, Moss, and Duffy conduct a study on their hypothesis of predictors for supervisor abuse toward subordinates. Abusive supervision costs companies and the victims as much as 23.8 billion dollars a year in increased health care, employee turnover, and production loss. (Tepper, Moss, & Duffy, 2011) Using the moral exclusion theories of perceived dissimilarity of employees, conflicts with employees, and the usefulness of employees, as their base ideas, they also bring into their study the performance evaluations given to subordinates by their supervisors and how they relate to the other predictors. Although the authors focus on relationship conflict and low performance evaluations as the predictors of abuse, I propose that it is actually usefulness to the supervisor and perceived dissimilarity that leads relationship conflicts and low evaluations to occur. Tepper, Moss, & Duffy (2011) propose that perceived dissimilarity is not the cause of abusive behavior, but instead it is perceived relationship conflict and low performance evaluations that lead to perceived dissimilarity. The low performance evaluations are what cause most employees to report supervisor abuse, which include “undermining, public denigration, and explosive outbursts.” (Tepper et al.,2011,p.279) In their study, they...
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...with a history of emotional abuse by a spouse or romantic partner. This review of Reed & Enright (2006) includes a summary of the article, a personal reflection of the material, and application points for future consideration. The article in review employed a case study format that puts forgiveness therapy and will be referred throughout this paper as FT and Alternative Treatment which will also be referred throughout this paper as AT under comparison in women who has experienced emotional and psychological abuse whom have been separated for 2 or more years with no interest on reconciliation. The main goals of the article were first to provide data that proves that FT is more beneficial for women as a therapeutic approach (Read & Enright, 2006). The two therapeutic strategies discussed in this article include: (a) Forgiveness Therapy, and (b) Alternative Treatment. The method of study was conducted of 20 women who fall into the description of psychologically abused between the ages of 32-54 from different ethnic, educational, racial and family dynamics. The design consisted of a control group that had limited contact with their former partner varied regardless of pre-existing children, were divided into 10 groups and one from each group was selected for FT and the rest was sent to AT. Control groups were screened using a posttraumatic stress symptom checklist. There was exclusion based on current involvement, history of childhood abuse, or ongoing psychiatric illness...
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...Expression of anger and relationships Unchecked rage under the canopy of unhealthy derivatives of anger can lead to abuse, which is an expression of an unhealthy relationship, both in a physical and psychological sense. Domestic violence has been defined strictly as physical abuse. However, domestic violence can take on other forms, such as verbal, emotional, sexual or psychological abuse. The focus of this paper will be to compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy relationships when anger is the factor. In relationships, there are healthy and unhealthy feelings that determine the difference between healthy or unhealthy relationships. The thought, or more specifically, the inner reflex ushered by the need to express rage, and the restraint used to filter this rage in an imaginative personal inner fantasy can be healthier than expressing this unchecked uncontrolled anger in a tangible sense. One of the unhealthy expressions of anger is anger that cannot be controlled, most usually called rage. Every emotion has an extreme and the extreme of anger is rage. Human beings are subject to a plethora of emotions filtered through a psychological net and are most times expressed in a physical nature. If one is sad, one can cry, if one is frustrated, one can be moved to yell. Each emotive state has its extreme example. If this were not the case, such societal facts like crime and punishment would not be an effect, or needed. As a society, these emotions, need to be controlled and tempered...
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...English 101 [My whole life I have grown up in a house where all of us kids had the same parents. Where we were required to go to church and sit down together at dinner. Why is it that my family is different from others. Aren’t all families like this? Don’t all kids grow up in loving homes?] – ( Needs to be more creative, Its not good to use open ended questions as an attention grabber. Maybe something a shocking statistic would work better) {As far as a topic sentence ought to be, I think you should summarize a bit more, so that your thesis is a bit more clear, instead of being inquisitive. E.g.: Shockingly, the U.S. has the biggest incarceration (or imprisonment) rate than other nations. The perhaps biggest thing that causes such a catastrophe is the fact that so many children in the U.S. don’t grow up with two moral, strong-based parents. :P} The truth is is that most kids don’t have this privilege. In fact for a lot of kids the importance of the family is not taken seriously and is taken for granted by those who do experience it. Without a strong based family, a child loses key lessons from his or her parents: and when a child grows up with out knowing right from wrong the end result can be devastating. A child that grows up in a dysfunctional{what is dysfunctional to you may not be to others…may want to be a little more specific} family is at greater risk to do drugs, drop out of school, be sexually active, be abused, and live in poverty.((< definitely cite this. ...
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...at this very moment, an individual is being abused. The perpetrator uses emotional and physical attacks, intimidation, and fear to gain control over their victim. Often victims will be left with bruises, cuts, and scars. The scars are not always physical, but those scars of mental, emotional, and spiritual, torture that often last a lifetime. Domestic Partner Violence affects individuals in a broad range of different backgrounds such as economic, racial, social, ethnic, and religious groups. Usually the perpetrator is not a stranger, but rather their husband, boyfriend, wife, girlfriend, mother or father. There is no discrimination as to the individuals relationship status, as to if they are married, divorced, separated, dating, or cohabitating, and includes all age groups of heterosexual or homosexual relationships. At the heart of a situation of domestic partner violence is one individual; man, woman, or child who is paying a heavy personal, social, spiritual, economic, and emotional cost. Domestic partner violence happens around the world and in most places is seen to be a form of criminal violence. The study of research presented for this critique will focus on and examine research methods of behaviors and results of these research studies or experiments. Also discussed will be causes of Domestic Partner Violence, the lethal and non-lethal violence inflicted on women, children, and men, and how seeing domestic partner violence in the home affects children growing up...
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...Substance Abuse Just like many disease or mental illness, substance abuse does not discriminate. Substance abuse can result from sociocultural, due to stress of environmental factors, social economics and unemployment’s. The use of substance abuse whether it is alcohol, prescription drugs, or other method it is a stress reliever for the abuser, helping them escape. The addiction to substance abuse makes it hard to function and work in the real world because the abuser becomes dependent and develop higher tolerance. Those suffering from substance abuse may have genetic been given through it through an addict mother, or suffering through a life crises of depression, stress and anxiety. Psychological Factors There is several reason one would try drugs that may turn into substance abuse, it could be the mere fact of stress and unemployment, abusing alcohol or substance abuse allows the person to be able to relieve the stress and feel at peace. Substance abuse can result from social economics and surrounds, whether it is something we see on television or dealing with peer pressures of friends, family and coworkers. The void drugs fill in your life will take part of you life making it hard to accomplish any tasks. Effects The effect of substance abuse can result in changes in the brain interfering with the ability to think clearly, exercise good judgment, controlling our behavior, and this results in poor work performance. You frequently call out of work, running late, struggles...
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...cannot make progress. Individuals with a felony record have limited opportunities for employment, housing, and civil duties. Does Trauma Cause Addiction? There have been several theories to explain the relationship between trauma and substance abuse. Some theorists believe that persons who abuse drugs may engage in risky behaviors making them more susceptible to experiencing traumatic events. On the other hand, there are researchers that believe trauma may precipitate drug use when people “self-medicate” to reduce trauma related stress (Clark, Reiland, Thorne, & Cropsey, 2014). Based on the literature, it does support the theory that trauma can precipitate substance use and become a major risk factor for developing substance abuse problems or an addiction. Trauma is a Risk Factor for Substance Abuse There have been several studies completed that have shown the prevalence of childhood trauma exposure among adults receiving treatment for substance abuse. One of the most recent studies conducted by Lotzin, Haupt, Von Schonfels, Wingenfeld, and Schafer (2016) collected data of 347 patients with alcohol dependence between the ages of 18 and 65. Of the 347 patients, approximately 50% reported at least one type of childhood trauma to include: sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, or physical neglect. Lotzin and colleagues (2016) found that patients who reported being severely sexually abused and emotional neglected faced more severe drug problems than patients...
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...How does mental health affect the workplace? What is the impact? Mental health in the workplace refers to the relationship between employee mental health and the workplace. It encompasses: how the workplace can impact on an individual’s mental health how an individual’s mental health can impact on the workplace Direct cost : Research undertaken by Beaton on behalf of Beyond Blue reported that more than 6 million working days are lost per year as a result of one mental illness alone – depression - and that each worker whose depression is untreated costs their employer $9660. It is estimated that the overall cost of unmanaged or mismanaged mental health in the Australian workplace is $13 billion a year. Lower productivity/performance There are a number of reasons why organisations and businesses need to improve the mental health of their workplaces: There are considerable financial costs associated with mental health problems in the workplace including absenteeism, presenteeism (i.e. reduced productivity while at work), high staff turnover, accidents and workers' compensation claims. (It also costs the overall community through the use of health services, loss of productivity, loss of lives, social exclusion and human rights abuses.) Employers are subject to a number of legislative requirements related to mental health in the workplace, including work health and safety, discrimination, privacy and fair work legislation. Employers have an ethical...
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