Physical abuse

who has substance abuse problem (Rockville, The NSDUH Report: Child living with substance-depending or substance-abusing parent , 2009). A parental substance identified as a threat that influence for child maltreatment and child welfare involvement in the family (Hanson, Sel-Brown, Fricker-Elhai, & Kilpatrick, 2006). Research conducted by child protection services (CPS) classified parental substance abuse as one of the five key aspects that foreseen a report to CPS for abuse of neglect.Once an…

many forms such as physical, emotional, sexual, physiological, and economical. With the numbers of domestic violence so high, it is very likely that every single one of us knows someone who has been a victim of domestic violence. With this epidemic, we as a country need to find a way to help these victims and stop domestic violence. Physical violence is pretty explanatory and is where your spouse is inflicting or attempting to inflict physical injury. Sexual abuse is coercing or…

family members and other loved ones. Domestic violence is the physical, mental, and emotional abuse that happens inside a household. Domestic violence usually involves someone being abusive to his or her intimate partner, or a parent being abusive to his or her child. Violence in a family tends to spread outside of the home to other acquaintances. The victim has a tendency to release their anger on someone else because the…

Domestic abuse has plagued humanity for thousands of years. Sadly, women are the overwhelming majority of abuse victims. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, every nine seconds in the United States, a woman is beaten or assaulted. One in three women have been victims of physical violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime. These are staggering and shocking statistics, and demonstrates that domestic violence is still a very prevalent problem in our society. In…

level the social worker should lay emphasis on how parents educate their children about good touch/bad touch, being aware of their surroundings, being open-minded, and supportive of the child. Social workers working with children affected by sexual abuse the social worker and the therapist one on one. The social worker main responsibility is to link the child to the resources he/she needs. At the mezzo level interventions involves the local community and those working with the victims. Mezzo…

Violence This article gives a quick background on how women abuse was not a huge concern to many people, including those on the government board. This can be seen as an example to how much life has improved, how much women have come to achieve. This can also be seen as a way to demonstrate that women, even after the effort, have not stopped being abused by men. Furthermore, this article includes data, from research, that domestic abuse is hidden from the public, but when it is seen, nothing is…

factors that can increase their risk. The violence can be physical or verbal and can come from patients and visitors. There are four different types of workplace violence. The first is criminal intent which results when criminal activity is being committed with no relationship to the place or workers. Type two is customer to client where the perpetrator is the patient or client at the workplace and is violent to the healthcare worker. Type…

Domestic violence, also defined in the webster dictionary, as “the inflicting of physical injury by one family or household member on another”. According to the preliminary analysis of WHO’s (World Health Organization) global prevalence database, about 29% of Europe and Central Asia’s women claim they experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence during their lifetime. While 33% of women in Latin America and the Caribbean women also claim the same. All of this of course was shared…

For physically abused children, in Kolko’s (1996) study, family therapy was conducted in three phases. The first phase consists of the therapist assessing the family’s interactions, enhancing cooperation among family members, and discussing how physical force affects a family as well as explaining a non-violence contract for the family (Kolko, 1996). The second phase is made up of the therapist training the family members on problem-solving and communication skills (Kolko, 1996). The last phase…

were cruel and treated the students poorly. The maltreatment and abuse in residential schools caused students to develop psychological disorders with lasting effects and forced the Canadian Government to deal with the problems they caused. Aboriginal children often suffered horrible treatment in residential schools. In Kathryn Blaze Carlson’s article, Report links residential schools with missing and murdered women, accounts of abuse in all forms were extremely common according to a significant…