Child Abuse: 'A Realist And Expressionist'
The Realist and Expressionist
By: Kenny Nguyen, Pooja Panda, Kathryn Drake, Jubin Saha, Casey Hernandez
Child abuse is a pressing social issue. It will be best addressed by leading short but powerful workshops in multiple prisons using the methods and exercises of Theatre of Oppression. The hope is to allow prisoners, both victims and perpetrators, of child abuse, begin to understand and handle feelings associated with child abuse.
Summary of Issue
Theater of the oppressed allows oneself to completely immerse themselves in a situation and find the inner root of the problem. This theater is focused mainly on allowing the development of the person who has suffered from an incident in this case child abuse, to recover …show more content…
Victims of child abuse tend to be “hostile, take situations very aggressively” (Dodge Pettite (p.68)). An individual won’t stop taking in all those qualities all of a sudden, rather it grows as any disease or infection would. Relationships, external actions/ approaches become more risky and illegal even. The victim essentially victimizes him or herself. Only 13% of the children that face this issue are reported and receive the full treatment, (Kolko Selelyo (p.70)). The idea of it being kept in secrecy adds on to the list of what needs to brought about to civilians in order for such problems don’t continue to happen at such a rate. Parents that decide to use the method of beating and other harmful mechanisms are not stable themselves, which allows for the finding of the root cause. They don’t have the full on teachings of how a child develops. When such actions are put on young and raw minds of children, they will be traumatized for life. The attack lingers on to them for the rest of their lives regardless of any situation. Some qualities are inherited from parents and even certain behaviors and as a child; he or she will use that to their knowledge. As the children grow, they will use the same tactics of “parenting” when they develop as caretakers. According to help guide, child abuse is dictated many ways; for example “emotionally, physically and child neglect.” Take in consideration of the area of the emotional aspect of child abuse. Not having a sense of care, or attention with “frequent yelling, threatening or bullying” as help guide describes it, a child is more likely to adapt into those traditions and allow themselves to be victimized. As a child, he or she has no control or rather leadership over anything, it is the parent’s job
By: Kenny Nguyen, Pooja Panda, Kathryn Drake, Jubin Saha, Casey Hernandez
Child abuse is a pressing social issue. It will be best addressed by leading short but powerful workshops in multiple prisons using the methods and exercises of Theatre of Oppression. The hope is to allow prisoners, both victims and perpetrators, of child abuse, begin to understand and handle feelings associated with child abuse.
Summary of Issue
Theater of the oppressed allows oneself to completely immerse themselves in a situation and find the inner root of the problem. This theater is focused mainly on allowing the development of the person who has suffered from an incident in this case child abuse, to recover …show more content…
Victims of child abuse tend to be “hostile, take situations very aggressively” (Dodge Pettite (p.68)). An individual won’t stop taking in all those qualities all of a sudden, rather it grows as any disease or infection would. Relationships, external actions/ approaches become more risky and illegal even. The victim essentially victimizes him or herself. Only 13% of the children that face this issue are reported and receive the full treatment, (Kolko Selelyo (p.70)). The idea of it being kept in secrecy adds on to the list of what needs to brought about to civilians in order for such problems don’t continue to happen at such a rate. Parents that decide to use the method of beating and other harmful mechanisms are not stable themselves, which allows for the finding of the root cause. They don’t have the full on teachings of how a child develops. When such actions are put on young and raw minds of children, they will be traumatized for life. The attack lingers on to them for the rest of their lives regardless of any situation. Some qualities are inherited from parents and even certain behaviors and as a child; he or she will use that to their knowledge. As the children grow, they will use the same tactics of “parenting” when they develop as caretakers. According to help guide, child abuse is dictated many ways; for example “emotionally, physically and child neglect.” Take in consideration of the area of the emotional aspect of child abuse. Not having a sense of care, or attention with “frequent yelling, threatening or bullying” as help guide describes it, a child is more likely to adapt into those traditions and allow themselves to be victimized. As a child, he or she has no control or rather leadership over anything, it is the parent’s job