...Investigation of Prevalence of Child Abuse Objective: To investigate the prevalence of child maltreatment both nationally and locally. Type/Length of activity: Independent research, a 2 - 3 page summary. Independent Research: Compile data on abuse nationally and locally, using sources of information such as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which maintains a web site with statistics. You can also use local Child Protection Agencies in your hometown or county, which may have statistics compiled and available, or any other types of statistics or information available to you. Break down the maltreatment statistics into categories, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect. Use current statistics (2007+). Be sure to define the types of abuse. What do I turn in? Turn in a brief, written summary of the information you gathered. Your summary should include: an abstract · paper should be 2 -3 pages long · be typed, double spaced, and have 1-inch margins. · have a cover sheet that includes your name, the title of your paper, your ID#, course name and section number, and the date. · reference all sources using APA format. GRADING RUBRIC 5 10 15 20 25 Question Answered A) Followed directions B) Describe types of abuse C) National/local statistics D. Conclusion APA Format/Referencing ...
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...History of child abuse BSHS/408 February 15 2016 Chiffone N Shelton Abstract In order to discuss child abuse and neglect it is important to have a clear understanding of what child abuse and neglect is and the different form of child abuse. How the various types of child abuse and neglect are different from one another, ill-treatment of children comes in many forms, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional ill-treatment, and child neglect. Child neglect comes in many forms and occurs when a child is not given the care, supervision, affection, and support that they need; neglect can occur through physical neglect, emotional neglect, medical neglect, and education neglect. What are the implications of child abuse and neglect, For fiscal year 2011, States reported that 676,569 children were victims of child abuse or neglect While physical injuries may or may not be immediately visible, abuse and neglect can have consequences for children, families, and society that last lifetimes, if not generations . History of child abuse In this essay, I will be discussing the history and implications of child abuse and neglect. I will explain how the history of child abuse and neglect helped shape current policies and what the extent of child abuse and neglect is. I will address how various types of child abuse and neglect are different and how these types are viewed from different theoretical perspectives; I will also explain what the implications of child abuse and neglect are...
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...What Causes Homosexual Desire? Review of Related Literature This literature review includes some of experiment and studies about four causes of homosexuality. The main point of this essay will be discussing and comparing between present and past, why today people now more convert themselve to be homosexual. The question why only needs causes, if comparing with the past about twenty to thirty years ago, there were less people who are homosexual or bisexual than now. This research essay will provides five sections which are five main causes, it includes psychology, experience(social environment), cultural influences and individuals liking due to differences between homosexuality and heterosuxaulity Psychology and Biology The focus on brain and behavior study shows us many evidence that homosexaulity is definitely related to psychology and biology. Could homosexuality be illness if it is only about psychology because human has different idea in everything and also has difference in mental health. However, there are several studies could not find any conclusion that being homosexual is considered an illness or not. “Although dispassionate scientific research on whether homosexuality should be viewed as an illness was largely absent from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine during the first half of the twentieth century, some researchers remained unconvinced that all homosexual individuals were mentally...
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...natural tragedy (AACRC, 2014). But trauma is not limited to events per se; alternatively, trauma can also be brought about by occurrences of daily living that are emotional in nature and not quite as obvious. Traumatic stress can be evoked by trials surrounding relationships, physical issues, severe neglect, or by circumstances that overpower a person’s ability to adjust (American Association of Children’s Residential Centers, 2014). This essay will discuss how culture can influence traumatic experiences, the impact of trauma on neurobiological development, and how spiritual development can counter the effects of trauma. Cross Cultural View of Trauma Research conducted in Western countries has typically revealed a disproportionately large percentage of accounts of abuse of children among ethnic minority groups. However, mistreatment is not primarily connected to any particular ethnic group, but has been regarded as a global issue (World Health Organization [WHO], 2002 as cited by Cyr, Michel, & Dumais, 2013). The intricacy of examining child abuse from a culturally diverse viewpoint can be made clear by a number of components impeding the progress of awareness about this issue. Specifically, despite the fact that there is a widely recognized meaning of abuse, the way parts of this definition are applied can vastly differ based on how people interpret them (Cyr, Michel, & Dumais, 2013). For example, culture can impact the meaning abuse (i.e., beliefs, standards, and mindsets...
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...Child Abuse a Lifetime Sentence Jolene Dancliff COM/156 05-6-2010 Dan Price Child Abuse a Lifetime Sentence Once into adulthood, victims of child abuse search for some form of coping mechanisms to forget or mask the trauma and the pain of child abuse. According to Shub & Cabrera (2011) “Every week 60,000 cases of child abuse or neglect are reported in the United States, and 3 million reports of child abuse or neglect are being filed every year” (p.1). Approximately 50% of child victims abuse drugs or alcohol. (Shub & Cabrer, 2011). The abuse often stems from a response to guilt or a negative self-image. Although as serious as child neglect is, physical abuse more often will result in the abuse of drugs or alcohol. Poverty, social inadequacies and lack of academic achievement all lead to the probability of an adult survivor turning to drugs and alcohol as a way to relieve their internal turmoil. Adult survivors that suffered poverty in their childhood struggle financially due to inadequate resources to obtain quality education. They also have a lack of adequate housing or access to nutritional food. These all increase the odds of the survivor turning to substance abuse. People who are abused often are unable to fit comfortably into any social setting. Because of their insecurities and their uneasiness, it is easier for them to cope when they become intoxicated or high. It bolsters confidence and gives them a false sense of confidence. However, for some...
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...became truly mature. A child can face lot of dangerous things from the environment surrounding them which might seriously affect their whole life. As definition in the Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Child abuse is any action from adult to a child that it could be harmful to the child’s body or mental (Children Welfare Information Gateway 2007). In 2005, among 3.6 million investigations by Child Protective Services agencies in the U.S, an estimated 899,000 children (24.97%) were confirmed to be victims of child abuse (Children’s Bureau 2005). In generally, there are 4 typical kinds of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional maltreatment. Child neglect is situation that child’s primary needs were lacked from adults, especially parents or caregivers of the child. Physical child abuse is an adult’s action which causes visible or potential harmfulness to the child. Sexual abuse in children is any sexual activity from adult within a child. Emotional maltreatment is known as a behavior of children abuse that affects to psychology life or social skills of a child (Jaffe-Gill et al 2007). We can classify the reasons of child abuse into 3 different ways: parental causes, ecological causes and child problems (Childline Gauteng 2006). Besides, child abuse also has strongly influenced to all sides of the child’s life, such as: physical effects, behavior effects and emotional effects (Jaffe-Gill et al 2007). This essay will discuss the causes...
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...Patterns and characteristics of the abuser and the abused In this essay, I will explain how as a human service professional; I will understand the patterns and characteristics of the abuser and the abused to complete a comprehensive screening. I will explain what the patterns and characteristics I would look for during the screening of family members of a potential abused or neglected child. I will address how the characteristics of the abuser differ from the abused, and what the patterns and characteristics I would look for while screening a potentially abused or neglected child. I will explain how these patterns and characteristics help me determine the proper assessment methods and which methods would I use in this screening scenario. Patterns and characteristics of an abuser vary because abuse comes in many forms such as neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. "A perpetrator is a person who has been determined to have caused or knowingly allowed the maltreatment of a child. Most States define perpetrators of child abuse and neglect as parents and other caregivers (such as relatives, babysitters, and foster parents) who have harmed a child in their care. It is important to note that States define the term "caregiver" differently. The harm caused to a child by others (such as acquaintances or strangers) may not be considered child abuse but rather may be considered a criminal matter" (Perpetrators of child abuse and neglect, n.d.) There are many characteristics that an abuser...
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...Film Essay: The Blind Side Michael Glyde Wiles Waldorf College: Critical Thinking Film Essay: The Blind Side The film “The Blind Side” Written by Michael Lewis, Starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, and Kathy Bates is a powerful true story. The movie is set in Tennessee; the Blind Side contains two separate but important stories. One details the real life trials and tribulations of a young black man named Michael Oher. The other details the evolution of the position Michael will ultimately play in the game of football. The left tackle position, in today’s NFL left tackles get paid the most money next to the Quarterback because they are responsible for guarding the quarterback’s blind side. The goal of the main charter is to help a young homeless boy. The major decision was taking the young man into the family home and giving him a place to stay this decision was made by the family Sandra bullock (Leigh Anne Touhy) and Tim McGraw (Sean Touhy) along with the children. The process was not an easy one, after taking in Big Mike the family had to deal with many obstacles, Michael’s grades were poor so they had to get him help by hiring MS sue to tutor him they also dealt with people questing the fact that Sandra bullock (Leigh Anne Touhy) had a daughter the same age as Michael and how she would deal with that. There were many problems and roadblocks, a few were the fact that people at the school did not think that Michael belonged at the school or if he could...
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...Assignment 6: Final Essay Laquette Dunn Dr. Shimelis Frew ENG 090 (Writing Fundamentals) December 12, 2012 What happens after a child is abused? Child abuse is defined as any form of physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment or neglect of children and therefore resulting in a child suffering from various detrimental effects. Child abuse includes four major categories: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. Physical abuse is the most easily detected form of abuse and involves injuries located on the outside of a child’s body. A form of abuse that many people are unaware of is child neglect. However, in 2009 78.3% of child abuse comes from child neglect. This makes child neglect the most common form of abuse Child neglect occurs when a parent/guardian has failed at providing a child with the basic necessities of life, such as shelter, food, clothing, and supervision of an extended period. The consequences if child abuse varies according to the situation, individual, and the form of abuse suffered from. Some of the most common consequences of child abuse and neglect are physical, behavioral, and psychological (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008). Victims of child abuse and neglect can suffer from one consequence or a combination of them all. First, physical consequence is one of the many consequences of child abuse. The physical consequences of child abuse can range from minor injuries (bruises or cuts) to near death experiences (broken...
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...Rondi Macias Professor Amabisca ENG 101 Essay 4 November 25, 2014 Another Child Gone As Laurie Roberts reports in the Arizona Republic in 2009. Another day, another horror to another Arizona child. This time it's 3-year-old Natalia Santillan, who had the nerve to have accidents in her pants. There, of course, could only be one reason that a three year old would engage in such behavior. She had to be doing it on purpose, right? At least, that's what Peoria police report that Ayrin Amber Vick and her boyfriend Joe Ramirez thought. Text messages between the two suggested that they thought the child was lazy and unwilling to get up and go to the bathroom because she apparently didn't have accidents while in the company other people, according to court documents released Thursday. Little Natalia was living with her uncle and Vick, their 10-month old son Dominick and Vick's eight-year-old daughter Alexis because her own mother was in prison On April 7, Peoria police say Vick texted her boyfriend around noon to say that the child had had multiple accidents and that she "cannot handle it anymore." Three hours later, police say she called 911 to report that Natalia had "suddenly collapsed" and wasn't breathing. The child was covered in bruises, including inside both ears, and had balding spots where her hair had been pulled out. She had a cut over her left eye and a burn in the process of healing under her right eye. She died an hour later at Phoenix Children's Hospital. ...
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...The purpose of this essay is to discuss the influences of parenting on children’s mental health; with a particular focus, on the role played by parent’s attachment styles, in cohesion with the parent’s physical and psychological health. The essay will further highlight an existence of additional complex factors, above and above parenting, that affect children’s mental health, varying from, social, environmental, cultural, stigma and poverty effects. Mental health can described as state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life. Research outlines that, a child mental well being is thought to depend a combination of factors such healthy and balanced nutrition, socialization, and nurturing, provided by primary caregivers, extended family, and the community of residence, a potential impact to which, the child development process can proceeds along a healthy, or potentially traumatic trajectory (Gardner, & Gunn, 2012). From a social and nurturing perspective, the attachment theory supports the above notion, by stating that the quality of mother-child (or primary caregiver) attachment, is regarded as a pervasive factor in the development of an individual’s relational psychology throughout the entire lifespan (Bowlby, 1982; Freud, 1932). Attachment theory evolves from a basic premise that attachment behaviours are part of...
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...Providing services when a threat may exist BSHS/408 March 13 2016 Chiffone N Shelton Providing services when a threat may exist In this essay, I will address what the primary interventions and methods human service professionals use to prevent child abuse and neglect in a family setting. I will also explain what the primary interventions and methods human service professionals use to prevent child abuse and neglect in a school setting, as well as what ethical issues arise from working with children in school settings and what other factors you must consider. I will be writing this essay based on me working as a school counselor at an elementary school in a rural community. I am also on the city council and am involved in my local faith-based community, so I know many people in my community. I have instituted an abuse prevention program for the school, including a component for a series of books and skits. After one of my presentations, I am referred to twins, Jonah, and Joann. The children are in fifth grade and have been assigned to me after repeatedly showing up at school in the late spring unkempt and wearing long-sleeved shirts, despite the heat and lack of air conditioning in the school. At recess, their teacher notices a series of bruises on their arms. As the teacher, Ms. Jones makes a referral to me. She says, "I always knew there was a problem with the Johnson twins, but no one dares say anything because of how to mean their father is." After some discussion...
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...in 1974 “the family with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets is the source of all our discontent” suggests that the family is a negative force within society. This essay will describe what the family is, what its main functions are and outline the different types. It will explain how the family is detrimental to its members with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets and illustrate some of the consequences that these have on society as a whole. Society has to have a means of repopulating itself. The family is an institution with the key responsibility of the reproduction and social education of society’s members. New members must be taught by the family what it means to be a member of society. Weiss defines the family as “a small kinship structured group with the key function of nurturant socialization of the new-born” (quoted in Cree 2010). There are many different types of family. The nuclear family with 2 generations of family members under the same roof are the most common in modern society. Extended families with 3 or more generations living in the same household are becoming less frequent. These families can be extended either vertically, usually involving grandparents, or horizontally, with aunts uncles and cousins. Single parent families, as the name implies, involve a single parent with dependent child or children. Reconstituted families, sometimes called step families, are as a result of the loss of a partner through divorce or death and subsequent remarriage. This...
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...* CHRONOLOGY * * Second Trimester * * Mother attended her community drug and alcohol team (CDAT) were she was on a methadone programme. Referral was made by her key worker stated concerns that she may be pregnant and concealing it * * Pre - birth conference was held to establish the issues surrounding the mother, her pregnancy and her parenting skills. Mother did not attend. The pre – birth conference attended by the CDAT key worker, safeguarding midwife, health visitor, GP, social worker. The pre – birth conference took place as mum was concealing her pregnancy and that she was heavily * * DAY 1 Jack was born by caesarean section because they were concerns with the Zoe. Zoe was unwell – she had a heart valve problem. Jack was admitted to the intensive care unit, needing ventilation support for six hours 12pm * Safeguarding midwife aware that Jack been born, states that all people who needed to be aware of baby being born are. Informed us that her current partner and father of baby are not allowed to visit. Security, front desk at the main entrance of unit and nurses made aware * Urine virology/toxicology sent * Morphine started as Jack was Ventilated due to the respiratory distress 15pm * Out of hours social worker called inquiring about baby and mum 1630pm * Maternity support worker visited unit, updated on baby’s condition. Mum had her surgery – she will go and update mum 1830pm * Nurse looking after mum on...
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...The effect of child-caregiver interacton on the social-, emotional and cognitive development of children “Lack of caregiver-child interaction has been cited as a risk factor that contributes to loss of developmental potential. On the other hand, positive caregiver-child interactions are said to facilitate social-emotional development (Walker et al., 2011). This is especially true in infancy.” “Lack of caregiver-child interaction has been cited as a risk factor that contributes to loss of developmental potential. On the other hand, positive caregiver-child interactions are said to facilitate social-emotional development (Walker et al., 2011). This is especially true in infancy.” In this essay I wish to discuss the above emphasised statements in the context of normal social behaviour. This essay places specific emphases on three main areas; the role of attachment in child developement, how a lack of caregiver-child interactions affect the infant and the protective factors that could facilitate the child’s social-emotional development. After World War II, it was found that many children who lost their parents presented similar psychological difficulties (Cassidy & Shaver, 1999). Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby wrote a pamphlet on the situation, entitled “Meternal Deprivation”. Out of this work spawned the attachment theory. For the first time people became aware that the close careciver-child attachment, usually mother-child, was very important in the...
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