Child Abuse

Amant Kumar Shubham Sinha

Abuse is mental, emotional, physical or sexual injury to a child or failure to prevent such injury to a child.

What is Abuse?

physical abuse sexual abuse emotional abuse neglect

Four Types of Child Abuse

Physical abuse, which is 19% of all substantiated cases of child abuse, is the most visible form of abuse and may be defined as any act which results in a non-accidental trauma or physical injury. Inflicted physical injury most often represents unreasonable, severe corporal punishment or unjustifiable punishment.

Physical Abuse

unexplained bruises (in various stages of healing) welts, human bite marks, bald spots unexplained burns, especially cigarette burns or immersion burns unexplained fractures, lacerations or abrasions swollen areas evidence of delayed or inappropriate treatment for injuries

Physical Indicators

self destructive withdrawn and/or aggressive - behavioral extremes arrives at school early or stays late as if afraid to be at home chronic runaway (adolescent) complains of soreness or moves uncomfortably wears clothing inappropriate to weather, to cover body bizarre explanation of injuries

Behavioral Indicators

Neglect includes:

Failure to provide a child with food, clothing, shelter, medical care. Leaving a child in a situation where the child is at risk of harm.

What is neglect?

Neglect is a pattern of failing to provide for a child's basic needs, to the extent that the childs physical and/or psychological well-being are damaged or endangered. In child neglect, the parents or caregivers are simply choosing not to do their job.

Child Neglect

Physical Educational Emotional

There are three basic types of neglect.

Failure to provide adequate food, clothing, or hygiene. Reckless disregard for the childs safety, such as inattention to hazards in the home, drunk driving with kids in the car, leaving a baby unattended. Refusal to provide or delay in providing necessary health care for the child. Abandoning children without providing for their care or expelling children from the home without arranging for their care.

Physical

Failure to enroll a child in school Permitting or causing a child to miss too many days of school Refusal to follow up on obtaining services for a childs special educational needs

Educational

Inadequate nurturing or affection Exposure of the child to spousal abuse Permitting a child to drink alcohol or use recreational drugs Failure to intervene when the child demonstrates antisocial behavior Refusal of or delay in providing necessary psychological care

Emotional

Clothes that are dirty, ill-fitting, ragged, and/or not suitable for the weather Unwashed appearance; offensive body odor Indicators of hunger: asking for or stealing food, going through trash for food, eating too fast or too much when food is provided for a group Apparent lack of supervision: wandering alone, home alone, left in a car Colds, fevers, or rashes left untreated; infected cuts; chronic tiredness In schoolchildren, frequent absence or lateness; troublesome, disruptive behavior or its opposite, withdrawal In babies, failure to thrive; failure to relate to other people or to surroundings

Signs of Neglect

Verbal Abuse Withholding Affection Extreme Punishment

Emotional Abuse

Belittling or shaming the child: name-calling, making negative comparisons to others, telling the child he or she is no good," "worthless," "a mistake." Habitual blaming: telling the child that everything is his or her fault.

Verbal Abuse

Ignoring or disregarding the child Lack of affection and warmth: Failure to hug, praise, express love for the child

Withholding Affection

These are actions that are meant to isolate and terrorize a child, such as tying the child to a fixture or piece of furniture or locking a child in a closet or dark room.

Extreme Punishment