Identifying Child Abuse

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Child abuse is when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child. There are many forms of child abuse, including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse. To detect these abuse you have to look for some signes.
First, physical abuse, which is easy to detect because it is visible, when you see unexplained bruises, cuts, burns, or fractures you know something is not right. Although, when there is an evidence of delayed or inappropriate treatment for injuries is also call physical abuse. Additionally, if a child avoid going home or complains of being sore, moves uncomfortably, wears clothing heavier than expected for the weather (to cover
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Second comes sexual Abuse- it could be physical or non-physical. although, most of the time in sexual abuse cases has no physical findings. For example, exposure to the obscene language or pornography have no physical signs but it is considered as a sexual abuse. There are some physical sign of sexual abuse, which is difficulty walking or sitting and sudden weight gain or loss. The behavioural signs of sexual abuse, are inappropriate sex play or premature understanding of sex, suicide attempts, acting out, drug use, run-away, threatened by physical contact and closeness. Then comes emotional abuse, in rare case there are any physical signs of emotional abuse. Although, emotional abuse has many behavioural signs, such as, self-comforting behaviors such as sucking, rocking, or biting. Self-injurious behaviors such as cutting in adolescents, Antisocial or destructive behavior, Substance abuse, Developmental delays. Lastly, the most common type …show more content…
There are five types of resist the during therapy: 1, by showing active behaviour, in which client may try to do provocation technique,The client directly challenges the accuracy of what the clinician has said. Intellectualizing, The client questions the clinician's personal authority and expertise. Hostility, The client expresses direct hostility toward the clinician. Interrupting, The client breaks in and interrupts the clinician in a defensive manner. Talking over, The client speaks while the clinician is still talking, without waiting for an appropriate pause or silence. The client contests the accuracy, expertise, or integrity of the clinician. The client breaks in with words obviously intended to cut the clinician off. The client blames other people for problems. 2, by passive behaviour, The client gives no audible verbal or clear nonverbal reply to the clinician's query or they do everything you told them to do. 3, by avoidance behaviour, The client shows evidence of ignoring or not following the clinician. The client's response indicates that she has not been paying attention to the clinician. In answering a clinician's query, the client gives a response that is not an answer to the question. The client changes the direction of the conversation that the clinician has been pursuing. Forgetting the paperwork or appointment. 4, by flight behaviour. Where client cuts off the