Abuse/Neglect Flashcards
The style of the parenting that are very nondirective and avoid trying to control their children:
permissive parents
shun or ignore their children, thereby leaving children to fend for themselves
permissive rejecting-neglecting parents
have definite ideas about how children should behave. do not hesitate to make rules.
Authoritarian
They provide control and support, involve children in decision making, strive to make children independent but when ready
Authoritative parents
Child maltreatment:
“?” million reported in one year in U.S.
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The most common type of child maltreatment?
62% NEGLECT, 18% physical abuse, 10% sexual abuse, 7% psychological maltreatment, 2% medical neglect
Physical abuse is “?” injury inflicted on a child
non-accidental
Characteristics of physically abused victims
Bruises Lacerations Fractures Burns Head injuries Internal injuries
Behavioral indicators of physical abuse
Extremely passive
Aggressive
Developmental lag
Characteristics of abusers
Need for personal support and nurturance social isolation communication/relationship difficulties Poor parenting skills Poor general coping skills Extreme stress/life crisis
Child Neglect is a caregiver’s failure to “?”
meet a child’s basic needs.
the failure to protect from harm or danger and provide for the child’s basic physical needs, including adequate shelter, food, and clothing:
physical neglect
Situations in which children are without a caretaker or the caretaker is inattentive/unsuitable:
Inadequate supervision
Infants who are below the fifth percentile in weight and often in height:
nonorganic failure-to-thrive syndrome
Emotional deprivation promotes abnormally low growth in children age 18 mo to 16 yrs
Psychosocial dwarfism
Characteristics of neglectful parents
Indifferent Impulsive Depressed Intellectual disabilities mental illness
Psychological maltreatment:
1. Abandoning the child, failing to acknowledge the child, scapegoating the child, and verbally humiliating the child.
Rejection
Psychological maltreatment:
2. keeping the child away from a variety of appropriate relationships.
Isolation
Psychological maltreatment:
3. Threatening and scaring the child
Terrorizing
Psychological maltreatment:
4. Failing to respond to a child or simply pretending that the child isn’t there.
Ignoring
Psychological maltreatment:
5. Encouraging illegal behaviors
Corrupting
Characteristics of psychologically maltreated children
Low self-esteem anxiety depression, negative view of life, increased suicide potential, emotional instability, difficulties with impulse control, substance use, relationship difficulties, violence, criminal behavior, school problems, poor performance on IQ and academic tests
Questions that SW should address:
1. What is the “?” to the child? To what ?
risk
degree
Questions that SW should address:
2. What is causing “?”
the problem
