Forms of Abuse Experienced by Adults

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

As a healthcare worker it is our responsibility to learn how to identify the signs and symptoms of abuse and to take action to help the abused patient. Abuse is present in all cultures, in every social class, and in all ethnic groups. For physical abuse the patient may have current or past visible external signs of damage to parts of the body such as bruising and abrasions. Physical abuse can cause chronic pain and may affect the patient's immediate and future ability to perform activities of daily living. For emotional abuse the patient may lose hope in the future and resort to unhealthy behaviors, such as drug abuse, crime, and abusing others, in an attempt to gain control.

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

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

Not only are there children who are effected by domestic violence researchers have created the “double whammy” effect or the dual exposure effect. The doubling effect is children who are effected by domestic violence as well as child abuse. (Moylan et al. , 2009) When children and adolescents experience both domestic violence and child abuse it leads to severe effects on the child. (Moylan et al.,2009) research indicates some of the following risks associated with both child abuse and domestic violence including: internalizing, withdrawn, somatic complaints, anxious, depressed, depression, externalizing, delinquent behavior, aggressive behavior, and delinquency. However, the double effect only increases the vulnerability of the children who have experienced both domestic and child abuse. The only significant effidence that is related to the doubling effect is and increase in depression. It is important to realize the importance of the effects on the at risk youth associated with domestic and child abuse. It is clear that both domestic and child abuse has tremendous effects on both the mother and the children.

In this article, researchers focus on assessing the extent types of abuse among women aged 60 and older, describing their experience with different and repeated types of abuse, and knowing how far this abuse could affect their health. The researchers’ method was a telephone survey and the questions were about type and frequency of abuse, and a report about their health status and conditions. According to the findings, it was found that approximately half of the women had experienced at least one type of abuse whether psychological, physical, or sexual since turning 55 years old. Multiple types of abuse was experienced by other women. Some abused women were able to report more health conditions than those who were not abused. It is important

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