...Child Abuse and Neglect 29 30 Dimensions and Critical Issues of Child Maltreatment in the African American Community: Causation, Consequences, and Prospects Presenter: Respondent: Joyce N. Thomas, R.N., M.P.H. Robert Pierce, Ph.D. Introduction African Americans, the largest minority population in the United States, suffer disproportionately from preventable diseases and deaths—(Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, 1994). This statement from the Office of Minority Health not only captures the tragic problem of health related issues of African Americans, it also applies to the social welfare problems of these children and their families. Each year over 2,000 children die at the hands of their parents or caretakers (U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1995). Abuse and neglect in the home are considered one of the leading causes of death for children four years of age and younger and the largest number of child abuse fatalities is due to severe head trauma. Homicide statistics are only part of the grim reality, with near–fatal abuse and neglect accounting for more than 18,000 permanently disabled children, and approximately 142,000 serious injuries (Baladerian, 1991). Findings from the report, A Nation’s Shame: Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States, indicate that African Americans are overrepresented in both fatalities and near–fatal injuries (U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1995). Research shows that...
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...studies about child maltreatment among Asian Americans. Chang et al. (2006) examined the characteristics and patterns of child abuse in immigrant Korean families and correlates of placement decisions. They collected data from the Los Angeles County, California. The study found that immigrant Korean families are more likely to be changed with physical abuse (49.4%) and less likely to be charged with neglect (20.6%). The emotional abuse is kind of witnessing domestic violence. Also they found that Korean parents tend to discipline their children by corporal punishment. In addition, they also found that report status, referral source, living arrangement, victim’s relationship to perpetrator, and chronicity of abuse...
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...Child Abuse and Investigation Janna-kae Morrison Kaplan University Unit 9 Project CM 107 I. Introduction a) The impact of child abuse b) Child abuse is on the rise but there are different ways in which social workers can investigate child abuse in order to protect children. II. Child abuse is a problem in the human services field that is affecting many families. a) There are different types of child abuse b) Different types of abuse can scare children c) It can cause children to be separated from their families III. What can social workers and other authorities do to protect children and family in child abuse cases? a) Parenting class b) Counseling c) Anger management class Child abuse has been affecting tens and thousands of children and their families around the world for years now, leading to physical, intellectual and psychological repercussions. Majority of parents and caregivers do not intend to hurt children; they may think they are punishing a child but the effect it has on the child is what constitutes the abuse. There are different types of child abuse (see Figure 1, showing the types of child abuse) that can cause social workers and other government officials to enter a family’s house and separate the child or children from their family. The aim of this paper is to examine the various types...
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...http://childtrauma.org/. The Child Trauma Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides educate on major findings on child development, brain development and the problems with child abuse and neglect. According to the organizations website the mission statement is “The mission of the Child Trauma Academy is to help improve the lives of traumatized and maltreated children by improving the systems that educate, nurture, protect and enrich these children. We focus our efforts on education, service delivery, program consultation, research and innovations in clinical assessment/treatment” (“Child Trauma Academy,” n.d.). The organization was established in 1990 by Dr. Perry as the Center for the Study of Childhood Trauma, the first non-scholarly accomplice in this interesting "Organization without Walls" was St. Joseph Carondolet Children's Center, a not for profit driven type welfare organization in Chicago, Illinois serving child abuse and neglected children. The organization has collaborative process in which they identify the best practices in child abuse and neglect. The organizations collaborates with educational institutions, corporations and public and private organizations which they utilize in order to gather and distribute information. At St John of God Health Care Services they have...
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...Everywhere we turn, all we see are visions of violence shown as solutions to problems. Parents and other caregivers abusing children that they are supposed to love. B. 1. Child abuse has grown more rapidly over the years. Innocent children bruised and beaten to death for reasons that are unjustifiable. On the news, in the papers, everywhere you hear about newborns and kids being beat to death. 2. There are four primary types of child abuse. a. Physical abuse b. Sexual abuse c. Emotional abuse d. Neglect 3. The ones performing these actions have no logical explanation for their actions, yet they only get a short sentence for their wrongdoings. No matter what their sentence, nothing can compare to their actions. The abuse can never be taken away. C-D. I first became aware of this topic about four years ago when my cousin was abused by her step-father. After seeing the physical and mental tolls of child abuse she faced, I concluded that this is a serious matter and that authorities need to step up and make an attempt to help the issue at hand before it gets worse. Transition: Many people do not consider the emotional and mental tolls that child abuse has on a child throughout their life. After seeing what my cousin went through, I discovered that child abuse can severely affect an individual both physically and emotionally because it consumes every aspect of their life. II. Body A. The after effects of being abused 1. Physical...
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...Child Abuse 1 RUNNING HEAD: Child Abuse Advocate for Child Abuse Mike Gavaldon California State Los Angeles Child Abuse 2 There is a popular saying within the realm of individuals who deal with child abuse on a daily basis “Child abuse is more than bruises and broken bones”. As easy as the breakdown of that sentence is, the meaning of it has been well researched and simplified to scars of child abuse are not only physical but mental as well. Physical abuse at most times is not the most noticeable sign, there are a couple other types of abuse that are as scarring as the others, child neglect is one, emotional abuse being the other also the ability to leave profound, long lasting scars. There are numerous signs of child abuse, some of them are more subtle than others but by being aware and learning the different types of abuse and how you can help would make an enormous difference in someone’s life. The younger children are that get help after being abused; it creates a better chance for them to deal with their frustrations, feelings, anxieties and allows them a greater chance to deal with their form of abuse. Another facet of early help might be the most important is dealing with their issue so they don’t grow up and perpetuate the cycle. The principal part of being an advocate for ‘abused children’ would be to help inform, teach and make sure people learn the symptoms...
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...Child and abuse and who the abusers are All children deserve a happy childhood, so why is it that some are brutally abused while others are the apple of their parent’s eye. Why do parents who are supposed to love and protect their children, abuse them emotionally and physically? Many times children are abused because their parents are frustrated an venting their anger on the children. Children can also be abused when their parents are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Under the influence, parents do not understand that they are doing especially if the child is standing between the parent and the substance they abuse, all they want is to acquire the substance that they are addicted to. (Saisan, Joanna 2012) If the parent has an anger management problem, depression, an anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder that also can be the cause of child abuse. (Joanna Saisan, 2012) Another reason that the parent would abuse their child is if the parent has a mental disability. Who are these people? What is their relationship to the child? The consequence of child abuse is very lasting. It can become a vicious cycle because many adults who were victims of child abuse, abuse their own children. In 2007, 899,000 children were confirmed to be victims of abuse or neglect. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007) According to Child Maltreatment 2010 84.2% of the perpetrators were between the ages of 20 and 49, 45.2% of perpetrators were men and 53.6% were women. Also the race...
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...Impact and Relationship of Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment: Risk and Resiliency Factors What Research Tells Us Martha Morrison Dore, Ph.D. Columbia University School of Social Work 622 West 113th Street New York, New York 10027 212/854-5461 Paper prepared for presentation at the conference entitled “Protecting Children in Substance Abusing Families,” September 28, 1998, sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, University of Minnesota School of Social Work, Minneapolis, MN. Researchers are just beginning to demonstrate empirically what child protective services workers have been observing for nearly two decades now: many, if not most, families who come to the attention of the child welfare system are involved with drugs or alcohol or both. Founded cases of child abuse and neglect have risen exponentially since the mid-1980s, when the crack form of cocaine, a cheap, easily used form of the drug, became widely available. Studies conducted since that time have identified substance abuse as a contributing factor in 40% to 80% of substantiated cases of child maltreatment (Curtis & McCullough, 1993; Magura & Laudet, 1996; Murphy, Jellinek, Quinn, Smith, Poitrast, & Goshko, 1991). Further, studies of substance abusing parents have found child-rearing beliefs and attitudes that heighten risk for child abuse (Williams-Peterson et al., 1994), as well as elevated rates of first-time reports to child protective services (Jaudes & Ekwo, 1995), re-reports...
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...Both Sides of Child Abuse When someone intentionally inflicts moral, sexual pain, physical pain on a child is committing child abuse. When a child is abuse it is typical that they were abused as a child themselves. Life struggle can contribute to some abuse due to unemployment, stress, and poverty. When a child is abused it is usually people that have the need to feel power over something. Disabled children are more than likely to be abused children with special needs can cause a great deal of stress. Children are often the target of abuse they are less powerful than the abuser. Does child abuse damage children to become damaged adults? Sexual abuse has been involved in cases of neglect on children (Bottoms, B., & Epstein, M., 1998). Around eighty percent of children that were abused as kids will grow up to be abusers especially the ones that have been sexually abused. Most parents that abuse actually believe it is their right as a parent. Abusers really think this teaches children a lesson, it does it teaches children not to trust. Abuse is higher in families of mixed races and mixed religion (Bottoms, B., & Epstein, M., 1998). Abusers have a very short temper they explode at the slightest little things. Jobless or part-time working parents are the likely abusers (Bottoms, B., & Epstein, M., 1998). Retired people are the least likely to abuse a child. However someone that sexually abuses a child is one difficult human to figure out. Most child abusers have both...
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...contributes to the development of avoidance tactics. Adolescent dysregulations includes disordered eating behaviors and/or eating disorders, anxiety, depression, body dissatisfaction, and extreme attempts at weight control; all of which can be caused by child sexual abuse, maladaptive perfectionism, parental attachment issues, and the development of alexithymia. Other dysregulations include faulty coping mechanisms, which are also affected by anxiety, depression, and neuroticism. Thesis: An adolescent’s sense of self, self-image, and self-esteem are affected by dysfunctional family systems, including family systems that reflect child sexual abuse, poor attachments, alcoholism, and the development of alexithymia. The adolescents in families such as these have psychological reactions to their disordered self-images and the dysfunctional family systems. Dysfunctional Family Systems and Disordered Self-Image Adolescent development of eating disorders, disordered eating behavior, and/or subclinical eating behaviors may be caused by perfectionism, child sexual abuse, or other trauma such as having alcoholic parents. Poor self-esteem, poor sense of self, and family dysfunctions may be caused by perfectionism, childhood sexual abuse or other trauma as well. Attachment difficulties on the part of either the parents or the parents and children, and dissatisfaction with one’s body can all be associated with each other and used to describe the development of these issues. Efforts...
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...Campus Child Molestation: Does the punishment fit the crime? Justice Administration 3300 Criminal Law Professor Shupe By Lance Sumrall October 18, 2010 Imagine a child, a little girl about the age of 10; she has just walked in the door from a fun day at school. She is surprised to find that mom is not home, only her new step-father. She goes to her room to put away her book bag and take off her shoes. She turns around to see her new dad standing in the doorway with a strange look in his eye. In the moments to come, the innocence of a precious child will be destroyed forever. Studies show that two out of ten girls and one out of ten boys will be sexually abused before their fourteenth birthday, and children that are abused are much more likely to be abused by a family member or close friend not a stranger off the street. While child molestation is a common phrase used by the media and public when discussing sexual abuse of children, the actual crime is called child sexual assault. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect defines child sexual assault as “contacts or interactions between a child and an adult when the child is being used for sexual stimulation of the perpetrator or another person when the perpetrator or another person is in a position of power or control over the victim.” These “contacts or interactions” include inappropriate physical contact, forcing a child to view pornography or people performing sexual acts, using a child in making...
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...will discuss the vulnerable population of child abuse caused by the children’s parents. It will include a description of the populations’ demographic based on research of professional literature. It will also include the description of my personal awareness of population before studying the demographics. It will state the effect of research on personal attitudes after gathering knowledge. It will then describe how knowledge might affect health care delivery. Finally, I will use self-reflection to evaluate my perception before and after learning about the population (University of Phoenix, 2013). Description of the Population’s Demographic The population’s demographic affected by the child abuse by parents, are both the parents and the children. Children affected by parental child abuse are a vulnerable population because often time children do not know who to seek help from. The children demographic are affected greatly because many times children feel that they do not want to get their parents in trouble because of the abuse. Children abused by parents are often considered a social problem, which is often silent. “Child abuse and neglect by parents remains a salient social problem, thus warranting a continued evaluation of measurement tools used to assess child abuse potential” (Merritt, 2009, para. 2). The populations of children being abused by their own parents are actually at a high percentage. “Approximately 40 percent of child victims were maltreated by their mothers...
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...average human being’s behavior, but a dosage of daily struggles one will experience firsthand. Mental illness is a controversial issue, however society needs to understand that mental illness is not something you are born with, but solely a condition that affects the path you take, because of life events and traumatic experiences, not genetic inheritance (The Telegraph). To begin with, mental disorders are nothing to be ashamed of, these conditions associated with changes in thinking, behavior, and functional abilities, however mental illness has become a large factor in contributing to American society. In other words, being diagnosed with a mental disorder impacts the American society in various ways, such as the troubles in daily functioning, distress, and traumatic involuntary memory. In fact, organizations such as the World Health Organization issued a report that 25 percent of the American population is affected by a mental or behavioral disorder during their life (Schmidt). For example, society and individuals romanticize mental illness far too often, social media plays a large role because people aspire to...
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...Dissociative Identity Disorder What Is This Disorder Many personality disorders can come from child abuse, one of the more complex disorders is Dissociative Identity Disorder. “Dissociative identity disorder, formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder, is a condition wherein a person's identity is fragmented into two or more distinct personality states. People with this rare condition are often victims of severe abuse.” ( Psychology today 2017). This disorder starts off just as dissociation, which is the separation of normally related mental processes, resulting in one mental process functioning independently from the rest. “The different personality states usually have distinct names, identities, temperament, and self-image....
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...Child Abuse and Its Correlation to Suicide May 1, 2014 Psychology Final Paper Mrs. Bailey Topic: Child Abuse and its correlation to suicide Introduction: (partial) The exploration into the relationship between child abuse and suicide. Child abuse has many psychological effects on a victim. These effects can accumulate leading to a person exposed to this to try to take the pain away. Ending their life, ends the pain. Paragraph 1: Main Idea All bad things that come out of abuse: It is hard to determine how each thing separately affects a child, but child abuse has been linked to physical, psychological, behavioral, and societal consequences. A scary thing about that is that sometimes there is a snowball effect with these consequences. Examples: cognitive delay and have lower IQ scores, language difficulties, neonatal challenges, personality disorder, depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders (Psychological Consequences). Paragraph 2: Main Idea Many studies have shown the relationship between child abuse and suicide. Not all suicide attempts are from people who were abused but there is a strong correlation (Dube, S., Anda, R., Felitti, V.). Go specifically in detail about how child abuse leads to suicide. Paragraph 3: Main Idea Who is most at risk? Repeated abuse was generally more strongly associated with suicide attempts than a single occurrence of abuse. Furthermore, sexual abuse by an immediate family member (such as a father, stepfather...
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