Lesson 9 - Abuse and Sexual Dysfunction Flashcards
What is the absence of adequate social, emotional, and physical care?
Neglect (doesn’t necessarily involve hurting someone, it is omission)
What is non-accidental physical attack or injury?
Abuse
What are the 3 types of abuse?
Physical, sexual, emotional
What does an abusive parent look like?
- ) Speak in terms of the child as if he was an adult
- ) Parents suggest that the child is against the parent
- ) Parents are unaware of basic needs of the child
- ) Parents have negative attitude toward the child
- ) Parents are socially isolated
- ) Parents are uncomfortable in child’s presence
- ) They didn’t have positive model in how to parent
What do abused children look like?
- ) Not aggressive (obedient and withdrawn)
- ) Very obedient
- ) will not go to parents for relief
- ) Inconsistency around story of injuries
- ) Go to the abuser over the other parent
- ) Slow to raise an accusing finger
Before the age of 18 how many girls/boys are molested?
Girls - 1/5
Boys - 1/7
How many of the abusers are strangers? known?
11% ; 89%
How does sexual abuse take place?
- ) Engagement phase
- ) Engagement phase –> sexual interaction
- ) Secrecy Phase - interaction becomes more overt, but adult uses authority to keep it a secret
- ) Discloser Phase - something happens and everything comes out
What are some myths about battered women?
- ) Battered women provoke the mate
- ) Battered women overstate their abuse
- ) battered women believes that if they get help it will make the situation worse by making it known
Stats about homosexuality?
- 6x the suicide rate
- alcoholism is 33%
- 43% said they have had more than 500 partners
What is the essential problem with homosexuality?
The lack of son/father relationship; hostility towards the father
How to confront the homosexual?
- ) Advise them to stop their sexual activity
- ) Male homosexual should be treated by a male
- ) Male to male boundaries need to be drawn
- ) Non-sexual male to male relationships need to be developed within the Christian framework