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Chapter 14- Abuse Within The Family Flashcards

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What’s family violence?

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Any form of abuse,mistreatment or neglect that children or adults experience from other members of their family

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What’s abuse?

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A situation in which a person takes advantage of a less powerful person over time

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Abuse was not examined until recently due to:

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  • Abuse within the family was thought to be rare

- when it did occur it was thought that abuse reflected rare psychopathology of offender or was fault of children

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What are types of abuse?

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Child abuse 
Intimate partner abuse
Elder abuse
Parent abuse
Sibling abuse
Honour violence
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What is child abuse?

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  • Child abuse includes physical,sexual, emotional abuse
  • Also includes neglect or violence they hear in the family
  • May occur in their home,others homes, schools or community centres
  • a betrayal of trust and an abuse of power over the child
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In 2008 there were 14.19 substantiated cases of child maltreatment per 1000 children in Canada. These cases involved:

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Physical abuse- 20%
Sexual abuse- 3%
Neglect- 34%
Emotional abuse- 9%
Witnessed domestic violence- 34%
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How many children die each year from abuse?

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30-50

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What is section 43 of Canadian criminal code?

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Every school teacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a pupil or child, as the case may be, who is under his care, if the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances

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Repeal based on 3 primary areas:

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1 Association between the use of corporal punishment and child abuse
2 Human rights issue
3 Developmental outcomes of corporal punishment

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Association between the use of corporal punishment and child abuse:

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-2008 CIS found 69% of substantiated cases of physical abuse consisted of innapropriate punishment

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Human rights issue:

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  • criminal code protection
  • Canadian charter of rights and freedoms
  • UN convention on the rights of the child
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What are developmental outcomes of corporal punishment?

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  • non-compliance
  • decreased moral internalization of desire norms
  • development of aggression and antisocial behaviour
  • negative impact on mental health
  • negative impact on •neurological,cognitive,emotional and social development
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What are the positive effects of corporal punishment?

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There are no positive effects

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Swedish model
Gradual changes in legislation:
1928:

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Corporal punishment banned in secondary schools

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Swedish model
Gradual changes in legislation:
1957:

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Defense for corporal punishment removed from penal code

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Swedish model
Gradual changes in legislation:
1966:

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right to use corporal punishment removed from parenthood and guardianship code

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Swedish model
Gradual changes in legislation:
1979:

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The use of corporal punishment explicitly banned in parenthood and guardianship code

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What’s the parents code?

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Children are entitled to care, security and a good upbringing. Children are to be treated with respect for their person and individuality and may not be subjected to physical punishment or other injurious or humiliating treatment.

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Effects of changes in Swedish law:

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1.change in attitudes
2declining rates of child abuse
3.earlier intervention for families
4.changes among youth

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What are the changes in attitude from the effects of changes in Swedish law?

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1965- 53% of swedes supported corporal punishment

1994- 11% of swedes supported corporal punishment

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What are the chances among youth because of the effects of changes in Swedish law?

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Decrease in alcohol and drug use
Decrease in suicide
Decrease in youth crime (narcotics trafficking, burglaries, auto theft, rape)

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What intimate partner violence?

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Violence committed by legally married,separated,divorced or common law partners,current or previous dating partners and other intimate partners

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Intimate partner violence includes:

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  • physical abuse
  • sexual abuse
  • psychological and emotional abuse(isolation from family, threats)
  • neglect( not allowing someone to have food,clothing etc)
  • financial abuse(controlled money)
  • homicide(83 killed by abuse 2016)
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Types of intimate partner violence:

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  • Common/situational couple violence
  • patriarchal terrorism/intimate terrorism
  • resistant/defensive violence
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What’s patriarchal terrorism?

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Systematic- one partner deliberately apply control over the other person

26
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What are the statistics for abused women?

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Between 1 in 4 to 1 in 10 women are abused by their partners

  • women more frequently victimized than males
  • women safer on the streets than in their homes
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Factors contributing to prevalence of abuse:

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  1. Historically,women not values as equals
  2. social condonation and glorification of violence
  3. tolerance and legitimization of abuse
  4. privacy granted to the family (outsiders aren’t suppose to intrude)
  5. perpetuation of myths (if it were really that bad they’d say something)
  6. colonization(high rates of abuse against aboriginal women)
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What’s the cycle of abuse?

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  1. build-up/escalation
  2. act out/explosion
  3. rationalize/justify
  4. pretend normal
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What’s primary prevention?

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Aims to keep abuse from occurring at all,primarily through education

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What’s secondary prevention?

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Programs involve working with group considered to be at risk for abuse

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What’s tertiary prevention?

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Treatment or some other intervention to keep abuse from recurring and to minimize its effects

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What can be done?

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  1. redefine abuse not a “family matter”
  2. development and expansion of resources
  3. focus on prevention
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What’s the development expansion of resources?

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Shelters
Counselling
Improved justice system
More and better intervention programs for those who behave abusively

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What are things they could do to focus on prevention?

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  • increase public education and awareness

- educate children(communication,healthy relationships,non-violent conflict resumption skills)

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How many victims of family violence were there in 2010?

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99 000

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What’s physical abuse?

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The intentional use of physical force against a child resulting in injury or causing bodily harm

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What’s corporal punishment?

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Any kind of physical force used to inflict pain and which serves as a punishment for an offence or to discourage innapropriate behaviour

38
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Which children are at risk of abuse or neglect?

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Unwanted children, children living with lone parent, those born prematurely, those with physical or mental challenges or poor health

39
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What’s battered women syndrome?

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A pattern of signs and symptoms appearing in women who are physically and mentally abused over an extended period by an intimate partner

40
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What’s second stage housing?

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Longer-term housing for abused women

41
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What’s the situational theory say about abuse?

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Abuse occurs when the abuser is under stress

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What’s the social exchange theory say about abuse?

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Social interaction involves rewards and penalties between people. The abuser will use violence as long as it is rewarding or if the rewards outweigh the costs

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What’s the symbolic interactions list theory say about abuse?

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Focuses on the interaction between the abuser and abused

44
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What’s the family systems theory say about abuse?

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We learn patterns of interaction writhing families. Families with an abusive member include violence in the father and husband roles, victimization in the child and wife roles

45
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What’s the feminist theory say about abuse?

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Violence is the result of a patriarchal social system

46
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What’s the societal perspectives say about abuse?

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Many identified abusers are from lower socioeconomic classes

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