Irsa Shahzadi
Professor Moshe Winograd
Introductory Child Psychology 2210
May, 1st, 2016
The Effects of Childhood Abuse
When a caregiver deliberately harms a minor physically, emotionally, sexually, or by acts of neglect, it is classified as a crime of child abuse. According to the Child Help organization a report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds in the United States. The United States has one of the worst records of child abuse in the leading industrial nations by losing four to seven children per day to child abuse and neglect. The organization also concluded that child abuse has a prevalence rate of 28.3%, sexual abuse has 20.7%, and emotional abuse has a rate of 10.6% in America. In a U.S. Department of Health and …show more content…
Compared to children with no abuse related history, children in grades 6, 9, and 12 were 28% more likely to use drugs like marijuana, weed, and alcohol. Biologically the child can inherit the genes that increase their risk of alcoholism, especially if one of the parent or grandparents abused drugs. National Alliance on Mental Illness reported that 1 out of every 5 drug abuser has a history of drug abuse in their household along with physical abuse. Often drugs are used to get away from a stressful environment but if a child matures seeing family members using drugs the act of taking drugs becomes normalized. Therefore, whenever there is a stressful situation in life the child will turn to drugs to get …show more content…
Sebold, Alice. “How Can I Protect My Child From Sexual Assault?” Rape, Abuse and, Incest National Network. January 1st 2009. WEB.https://rainn.org/get-information/sexual-assault-prevention/protecting-a-child-from-sexual-assault
2. Pelzer, Dave. “A Child Called It”. September 1, 1995. Book.
3. Mackenzie J. Lind “An Epidemiologic Study of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Sleep Disturbances” September 21, 2015. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. American Psychological Association Vol. 8, No. 2, 198–20. WEB.
4. Foynes, Melissa Ming, “The impact of asian values and victim−perpetrator closeness on the disclosure of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, Vol 6(2), Mar, 2014. pp. 134-141.
Professor Moshe Winograd
Introductory Child Psychology 2210
May, 1st, 2016
The Effects of Childhood Abuse
When a caregiver deliberately harms a minor physically, emotionally, sexually, or by acts of neglect, it is classified as a crime of child abuse. According to the Child Help organization a report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds in the United States. The United States has one of the worst records of child abuse in the leading industrial nations by losing four to seven children per day to child abuse and neglect. The organization also concluded that child abuse has a prevalence rate of 28.3%, sexual abuse has 20.7%, and emotional abuse has a rate of 10.6% in America. In a U.S. Department of Health and …show more content…
Compared to children with no abuse related history, children in grades 6, 9, and 12 were 28% more likely to use drugs like marijuana, weed, and alcohol. Biologically the child can inherit the genes that increase their risk of alcoholism, especially if one of the parent or grandparents abused drugs. National Alliance on Mental Illness reported that 1 out of every 5 drug abuser has a history of drug abuse in their household along with physical abuse. Often drugs are used to get away from a stressful environment but if a child matures seeing family members using drugs the act of taking drugs becomes normalized. Therefore, whenever there is a stressful situation in life the child will turn to drugs to get …show more content…
Sebold, Alice. “How Can I Protect My Child From Sexual Assault?” Rape, Abuse and, Incest National Network. January 1st 2009. WEB.https://rainn.org/get-information/sexual-assault-prevention/protecting-a-child-from-sexual-assault
2. Pelzer, Dave. “A Child Called It”. September 1, 1995. Book.
3. Mackenzie J. Lind “An Epidemiologic Study of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Sleep Disturbances” September 21, 2015. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. American Psychological Association Vol. 8, No. 2, 198–20. WEB.
4. Foynes, Melissa Ming, “The impact of asian values and victim−perpetrator closeness on the disclosure of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, Vol 6(2), Mar, 2014. pp. 134-141.