T1.Chapter8.PsychologicalMaltreatment

Question 1

What are the 6 types pf psychological maltreatment

Answer 1

Spurning
Terrorizing
Isolating
Exploiting/Corrupting
Denying Emotional Responsiveness
Mental Health, Medical, and Educational Neglect

Question 2

________ includes caregiver acts that ignore the child’s attempts and needs to interact (failing to express affection, caring, and love for the child) and showing no emotion in interactions with the child.

Answer 2

Denying Emotional Responsiveness

Question 3

__________ includes verbal and nonverbal caregiver acts that reject and degrade a child.

Answer 3

Spurning

Question 4

_______ includes caregiver acts that consistently deny the child opportunities to meet needs for interacting/communicating with peers or adults inside or outside the home.

Answer 4

Isolating

Question 5

_____ includes caregiver acts that encourage the child to develop inappropriate behaviors (self-destructive, antisocial, criminal, deviant, or other maladaptive behaviors)

Answer 5

Exploiting/Corrupting

Question 6

_______ includes caregiver behavior that threatens or is likely to physically hurt, kill, abandon, or place the child or child’s loved ones/objects in recognizably dangerous situations.

Answer 6

Terrorizing

Question 7

________ includes:
Ignoring the need for, failing, or refusing to allow or provide -treatment for serious emotional/behavioral problems or needs of the child, serious physical health problems or needs of the child, or services for serious educational problems or needs of the child.

Answer 7

Mental Health, Medical, and Educational Neglect

Question 8

________ includes:

• placing the child in predictable or chaotic circumstances
• placing the child in in recognizably dangerous situations
• setting rigid or unrealistic expectations with threats of loss, harm, or danger if they are not met
• threatening or perpetrating violence against the child
• threatening or perpetrating violence against a child’s loved ones or objects.

Answer 8

Terrorizing

Question 9

_________________ includes:
being detached and uninvolved though with incapacity or lack of motivation.
-interacting only when absolutely necessary
-failing to express affection, caring, and love for the child

Answer 9

Denying Emotional Responsiveness

Question 10

_________ includes:

• belittling, degrading and other nonphysical forms of overly hostile or rejecting treatment
• shaming and/or ridiculing the child for showing normal emotions such as affection, grief, or sorrow
• consistently singling out one child to criticize and punish, to perform most of the household chores, or to receive fewer rewards
• public humiliation

Answer 10

Spurning

Question 11

_________ includes:

• modeling, permitting, or encouraging antisocial behavior (prostitution, performance in pornographic media, initiation of criminal activities, substance abuse, violence to or corruption of others.
• modeling, permitting, or encouraging developmentally inappropriate behavior (parentification, infantilization, living the parent’s unfulfilled dreams)
• encouraging or coercing abandonment of developmentally appropriate autonomy through extreme over involvement, intrusiveness, and/or dominance (allowing little or no opportunity or support for child views, feelings, and wishes; micromanaging child’s life)
• restricting or interfering with cognitive development

Answer 11

Exploiting/Corrupting

Question 12

_________ includes:

• confining the child or placing unreasonable limitations on the child’s freedom of movement within his/her environment
• placing unreasonable limitations or restrictions on social interactions with peers or adults in the community.

Answer 12

Isolating

Question 13

_________ is defined as acts of omission and commission, which are judged on the basis of a combination of community standards and professional expertise to be psychologically damaging. Such acts are committed by individuals, singly or collectively; who by their characteristics (e.g. age, status, knowledge, and organizational form) are in a position of differential power that renders a child vulnerable. Such acts damage immediately or ultimately the behavior, cognitive, affective, or physical functioning of the child.

Answer 13

psychological maltreatment

Question 14

What impact does psychological maltreatment have? (5)

Answer 14

1) PROBLEMS OF INTERPERSONAL THOUGHTS, feelings, and behaviors including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, negative life views, self-criticism, and other negative cognitive styles that increase vulnerability to depression, immature defenses, and suicidal ideation.
2) EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS, symptoms include emotional instability, impulse, control problems, borderline instability, unresponsiveness, substance abuse, eating disorder problems, and more impaired functioning among individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
3) SOCIAL COMPETENCY PROBLEMS and antisocial functioning including attachment insecurity and disorganization, self-isolating behavior, low social competency, social phobia, low empathy, noncompliance, dependency, sexual maladjustment, aggression and violent behavior, and delinquency or criminality.
4) LEARNING PROBLEMS including decline in mental competence, lower measured intelligence, noncompliance, lack of impulse control, impaired learning, academic problems and lower achievement test results, and impaired development of moral reasoning.
5) PHYSICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS are associated with psychological maltreatment, including allergies, asthma and other respiratory ailments, hypertension, somatic complaints, high infant mortality rates, and delays in almost all areas of physical and behavioral development.

Question 15

define physical abuse

Answer 15

non-accidental injury inflicted upon a child.