Forms of Abuse Experienced by Adults

Child Abuse: When a parent or any caregiver causes injury, emotional harm, or death to a child.

M1- Assess the likely immediate effects of two different forms of abuse on the health and wellbeing of

Victims of sexual assault suffer from a wide variety of mental and emotional issues throughout their lives as a result of the experience. Results can range from depression, anger, feelings of loneliness, and difficulty when trying to formulate relationships of trust (Hyde 45). Victims experience a wide variety of psychological issues as a result of sexual crimes, which they will have to carry with them throughout their entire lives. Also, “Psychological problems can start later in life with changes in behavior- vague fears, feeling unprotected and helpless, nightmares, bedwetting, sleeping problems, fear to loss parents approval/love, need to please others, poor self esteem, anger, depression, withdrawal from activities, daydreaming, difficulty concentrating, behavior problems” (Hyde 47).

D1- Evaluate the potential long-term effects of these two types of abuse on the health and wellbeing of adults

1.1 & 1.2 Define type of abuse, and the signs and/ symptoms associated with each type of abuse.

P1: Describe forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults. Provide 5 types of abuse (e.g. Physical, Psychological, Sexual, Financial, Neglect)

Two of the consequences of sexual abuse that interest me the most is posttraumatic stress disorder and repressed memory. PTSD is known as an anxiety disorder that occurs in response to experiencing extreme stress (McCoy & Keen, 2014). The rates of PTSD vary among the type of sexual abuse that has occurred (McCoy & Keen, 2014). Victims of sexual abuse usually have to deal with PTSD. They have flashbacks of the terrible indicants, could happen randomly or be triggered by anything. Since the triggers could happen any time, it could prevent the person from prevent the person from being able to move on, which could stop them from living a successful and happy life. Another consequence of sexual abuse is repressed memory. Repressed memory is when the brain forces unacceptable thoughts, desires or memories into the unconscious (McCoy & Keen, 2014). This is done so the brain can protect itself. It takes a lot of energy for the brain to hide these memories and they can reappear caused by a trigger (McCoy & Keen, 2014). It makes

Victimization comes in many different forms such as assault, child physical/sexual abuse, stalking, theft, rape, sexual harassment, and domestic/relationship violence. There are several negative outcomes that have been linked with childhood abuse and neglect such as neurobiological changes, emotional and psychiatric disorders, interpersonal issues and substance abuse problems (Min, Singer, Minnes, Kim, & Short, 2012). According to Reid and Sullivan (2009), children and adolescents are very vulnerable and are the most highly victimized individuals of the population and the kinds of victimization that they experience can come in many forms (Finkelhor et al., 2009). This victimization is known as poly-victimization (Finkelhor et al., 2009).

Anyone can be sexually abused such as young children, adolescents, or adults. Sexual Abuse can either change an individual or cause them to look at life differently and grow. When traumatic situations and stress happens at an earlier age the more serious and long-lasting the effects will be. Those individuals that shows emotional, psychological, or physical signs in behavior is most definitely affected by Sexual Abuse. All signs and behavior does not apply to all, but some cases that has been previously recorded and examined will be the main focus.

As described in Module 13, there are several theories that could describe the cause of elder abuse. One of the theories describes stress as a leading cause of elder abuse by stating that “stress, frustration and feelings of burden experienced by caregivers who are caring for dependent elders can result in abusive and neglectful treatment” (Loseke, pg. 192). A second theory, argues that dependency from caregivers on victims cause elder abuse and not vice versa or stress. According to Loseke, “abusers were found to be significantly more dependent on the elder,” therefore, the abuse was linked not the victim’s dependency but the abusers’ (Loseke, pg. 2150). As well, researchers failed to “support the notion that the illness and dependency of

This type of abuse is when people treat other individuals different for instance, their weight, skin colour, gender, race, age, culture, religion etc. The abuse could vary from physical or verbal, harassment and deliberate segregation, rejection of basic human and civil rights which could include failing to encounter someone’s beliefs and values and racist drawings or bringing racial resources into a person’s home such as magazines or

After continually observing the varying negative effects relational abuse may have on victims, due to

The issues of who is at risk and neglected has attracted a number of researchers. The studies carried out by Pillemer and Finkerlhor (1988) and also Podnieks (1992) identified some of the most important characteristics of abused elderly. According to them it stated that the first the victim tend to be in poor health conditions, second, abused elderly are more likely to be living with someone and finally neglected elderly are more likely to have no one

This report presents the findings from a survey which focuses on how people between ages 14 to 25 have experienced mental or physical abuse in their youth. Overall eleven questions were asked about people experiences and views on physical and emotional abuse. The

This article would be important to use when writing a paper about child abuse because it talks about the different forms of child abuse. This article list four different forms of child abuse to look for. This is important because many people only think about one form of child abuse and tend to forget the others. For example, most only think of physical abuse which requires beating, but there is so many different kinds. This article does a great job of breaking down all of the different forms of child abuse and puts them all into 4 different categories to make it easier to talk