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Effects Of Physical Abuse

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Violence or in another word, abuse is a serious matter where these days it keeps increasing especially not just in working environment but also at home and in relationship where it supposed to provide the most happiness in the world for everyone. Generally, violence can be a domestic or international and when it comes to violence, the only ideas that come out of people mind are that it only involves physical and sexual since those two are the most popular cases that frequently reported in mass media but it is actually more than that, where all those types of violence and abuse will include these kind of behaviours such as manipulate, humiliate, isolate, blame, giving pain, bully or injuring someone. No matter what behaviours being projected, the main purpose of people doing this violence and abuse is to gain or …show more content…

The physical violence does not end just because the beating stop, it moves to the next stage known as recovery stage where the victims have to endure all the psychical effects that have rain down upon them specifically for the long-term physical abuse. Tracy (2014) stated that there are various kind of effects from physical abuse such as physical and psychological effects. Unfortunately, the experience from the long-term of physical abuse affects how the victim grows later on and it does not only give an impact to the physical appearance but also on mentally and emotionally aspects. In psychology, there is a term known as nurture where development of the human beings is affect by the environment and this theory proven by Albert Bandura, a psychologist in his famous Bobo doll experiment, that shows the aggression is acquired through observation and imitation of the surrounding. If a child were physically abused for a long-term, that child might become the next abuser or in worst case,

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