It is recognised that that it is abuse when someone inflicts harm or fails to prevent it. Children may be abused in a family or in an institutional or community setting, by those known to them or by a stranger, for example, via the internet. Child abuse can have major long-term effects on all aspects of a child's health, development and well being. The main forms of ill-treatments are:…
There are many different types of abuse and they can effect people in different ways.…
The types of abuse do vary from each individual and abuse is a violation of an individual’s human and civil rights by any other person or persons. The types of abuse range from physical, sexual, psychological, neglect, financial, discriminatory, bullying, self-harm, institutional, domestic violence.…
Abuse is defined as any action that intentionally harms or injures another person. There are several types of abuse, and all forms are illegal and have the potential to carry serious criminal offences.…
This is a non-accidental force, which is often used on vulnerable adults, which results in bodily injury, pain, or impairment of the body. This includes, but is not limited to, being slapped, burned, cut, bruised or improperly physically restrained due to perhaps not following instructions. The signs and symptoms which people can recognize physical abuse is series of unexplained falls or major injuries. Injuries and bruises at different stages of healing on adults' body such as having bruising in unusual sites- inner arms, thighs. Seeing fingerprints, abrasions on the head or face deliberately…
Abuse may be physical, psychological, sexual, financial, negligent, reckless behaviour which endangers self or others as well as self-harm. Abuse may be intentional or unintentional. It may be about doing something (an act of commission) or doing something (an act of omission). When a person abuses another person they violate their human and civil rights. Abuse may occur regularly and systematically or just once.…
Abuse is: about a person inappropriately using their power over another individual, Treating someone with disrespect, the control by a person of an individual using fear, violence, or intimidation, the mistreatment by any person that violates an individual 's human and civil rights and a single or repeated act or lack of appropriate action occurring in any relationship causes harm or distress to a vulnerable individual.…
There are many different types of abuse, it can appear in the form of physical, sexual, emotional, verbal or neglect. It can also be a combination of all of these things.…
Physical abuse may involve hitting, spiting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm to an individual.…
Abuse is the mistreatment by any person that violates an individual's human and civil rights.…
A Person may abuse by either inflicting harm or failing to prevent the harm occurring. Some of the behaviours indicating possible concern with regards to safeguarding children are:…
Abusers exploit, lie, insult, demean, ignore (the "silent treatment"), manipulate, and control. There are many ways to abuse. To love too much is to abuse. It is tantamount to treating someone as an extension, an object, or an instrument of gratification. To be over-protective, not to respect privacy, to be brutally honest, with a sadistic sense of humour, or consistently tactless – is to abuse.…
Abuse may be: physical, psychological, sexual or financial. Know the signs of abuse: bruising, depression, depleted finances, signs of neglect or change in mood and behavior. The elderly person might act…
Abuse: (n) a·buse (uh-byoos) 1. To hurt or injure by maltreatment, ill use. Some parents try to say that the abuse that their child is enduring is to teach him/her a lesson. There is a very big difference between physical abuse and discipline for your child, and, as Bell hooks states in her essay, “Justice: Childhood Love Lessons”, love cannot coexist with abuse. I agree with her in saying, parents should discipline their children without physically abusing them.…
As I understand a very simple definition of Drug abuse is that it means use of drugs for the purpose for which it is not meant to be used (in other words use of drugs not for treating ailments but to satisfy vicarious pleasure ).…
