A Brief Note On The Medical Child Abuse

Published case reviews draw special attention on the professionals lack of knowledge and confidence when assessing risk in children coming from various religions and cultural backgrounds. A lack of understanding of these two key components, might put at significant risk the children's welfare, leading professionals to overlook certain situations and to offer inadequate support or lower standards of care (NSPCC, 2017).

Anna O was 21 year old patient of Breuer. Anna O had developed strange symptoms while taking care of her father who was ill. She developed a cough along with paralysis, hallucinations, hysteria, and loss of feeling in her arms and legs as well as muscle spasms. Breuer could not figure out why Anna was experiencing these types of symptoms so he deemed it hysterical neurosis (Heller, 2005). While under hypnosis Anna’s symptoms were not as severe and she could recall dramatic events that had taken place in her life prior to her symptoms. We now know that Freud used Anna’s case to help develop his clinical experience even though he never treated or worked with her. Freud implemented free association into clinical practice that allowed the patient to speak freely and express their opinions about

Imagine your own family member constantly manipulating you into thinking you were going to be forever young. Now imagine that person telling every individual that you cannot care for yourself nor will ever get better. To be completely honest, that is a scary thought, not having any control over your own body and believing your caretaker that you are mentally incapacitate to care for yourself. The documentary I chose to watch and write about is Mommy Dead & Dearest, this documentary was released 11 March 2017 and the director is Erin Lee Carr. In this documentary, we see Dee Dee and Gypsy’s narrative who brings Munchausen Syndrome by proxy — a form of child abuse that involves a caretaker making up an illness for

Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome is a very dangerous disorder. This disorder came about to identify a parent who intentionally causes harm to their child. This disorder was named after Baron von Munchausen who discovered it. Symptoms are hard to identify because many do not believe a parent could harm their own child. The main symptom is that the child only becomes sick or is harmed in the presence of their parent. The parent tries to maintain a relationship with the doctor of the child because this disorder is based on the parents need for attention from the doctor, other parents, and their child. MBPS is caused by a need for attention and sympathy of the parent for “helping” their child. The only treatment known for this disorder is extensive psychotherapy. Munchausen by Proxy is a very rare behavioral disorder. “This form of abuse claims the life of nine percent of children that fall victim to it.”

Stockholm syndrome was considered a “complex psychological problem” and a “survival mechanism” where a victim bonds with their kidnapper or captor in order to stay alive. The syndrome became widely known in accordance with Hearst’s case, she claimed that the group convinced her that “her parents did not love her.”

Pt mother describes the pt seems to be in a “trance state” when he is in an anger episode. Pt mother stated that the pt have punched holes in the walls. Pt mother stated pt became assaultive towards pregnant sister who has M.S. Pt mother stated she feels unsafe with the pt in home due to is impulsive anger outburst.

The perpetrator is often a parent and typically the mother. However, there have been cases where the father acts as perpetrator. The first reported case of MSBP with a male caretaker occurred in 1990 when a father complained to physicians that his newborn baby would often stop breathing, turn blue and have seizures. Following extensive evaluation of apnea, it was discovered that the father, himself was suffocating and shaking the baby (5). Perpetrators show an avid interest for hospital care and usually have experience in the medical field. Munchausen syndrome is present in 10% of such perpetrators (3).

Munchausen syndrome is a serious mental disorder in which someone with a deep need for attention pretends to be sick or gets sick or injured on purpose. People with Munchausen syndrome may make up symptoms, push for risky operations, or try to rig laboratory test results to try to win sympathy and concern.Typically, the cause is a need for attention and sympathy from doctors, nurses, and other professionals. Some experts believe that it isn't just the

Through the months of September and October I had three meetings with a local woman, AA and her two sons, CG and HG. When we first spoke to arrange our meetings, we had decided to look into her asthma and how that affected her life and her family. As our first visit progressed, I realized that her struggles with mental health seem to have a much bigger effect on her life and family. AA has lived with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem for her entire life. She never lived with her father and was mistreated by her mother until moving in full time with her grandmother at the age of twelve. As shown in the Genogram, AA’s mother has an undiagnosed mental illness; this is speculation on AA’s part because she always assumed that her mother was suffering from something, which would have lead to the harsh treatment of her daughter.

Willis, who was known for his part in neurology and psychiatry in the 1600s, focused on a different body part of the human body - the brain. “Mind and body met somehow and interacted in and through the brain and the nervous system, and the ‘animal spirits’ that Willis viewed as commanding and controlling the body were powerful agents whose derangement could be invoked to explain all manner of illness and pathology” (Scull 25). The ‘animal spirits’ would be considered in contemporary day, the nerve impulses; Willis essentially distances himself from the uterus idea touches on the contemporary function of the brain. However, as history tends to repeat and cycle around itself - and we are led from a logic explanation to an irrational one. Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Rapetti, Mauro Giovanni Carta, and Bianca Fadda who authored "Women And Hysteria In The History Of Mental Health" wrote about Joseph Raulin. Roughly translated, Raulin wrote a book in the 1700s titled “Vaporus Sex Disorder” that described hysteria as a disease “caused by foul air of big cities and unruly social life”; furthermore, he states that men and women can suffer from this disease, but women are further predisposed for their natural condition of being lazy and irritable“ (Cecilia et al. 4). By writing this piece, Raulin further perpetuates the sexism, stereotypes, gender roles, and classism.

To begin, I chose this article because when I read the title of the article I did not know what Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) was. Therefore, I decided to read this article so that I would know what MSBP meant and how it is relevant to social work. I think that the author did a great job simply explaining what MSBP is and the components associated to it. I like that they broke the article into different sections so that it was easier to read and so that you could only read about a certain subtopic if you wanted to. The one thing I did not like about the article was that they did not give a detailed scenario of MSBP. They explained what it is and what it kind of looks like. But I did not

The reason why I choose this psychological disorder was because it was brand new topic to me. I was very interested in the fact of not knowing anything about this topic previously so I was able to go into this research with a blank slate. After researching what this syndrome was, my main topic of interest was that Munchausen Syndrome is a largely unexplained phenomena, as it is both quite rare and difficult to diagnose. It is also practically impossible to treat, as most people will emerge with negative results. Most of the

Facticious means artificial or unnatural, a definition that could not be more appropriate. People who suffer from factitious disorder (FD) “are great con men or con women, although what they obtain through their conning most people would far rather not have”[1]. The earliest accounts of factitious disorders are recorded in the times of Galen, a Roman physician in the second century A.D. The term ‘factitious’ itself, is derived from a book, published in 1843 by Gavin, On Feigned and Factitious Diseases. Most aggressive study of the disorder began in 1950s, when an article published by a British psychiatrist, Richard Asher who initiated use of the term, Munchausen’s Syndrome[i], to describe a subtype of

MSBP is a psychological disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior in which someone, usually a mother, induces physical ailments upon another person, usually on her child. (Heffner, 2004). This disorder is inflicted from one person onto another in the hopes of seeking

Children can be subjected to the negative effects of parental substance use in a variety of different ways. For example, substance use during pregancy can cause detrimental outcomes for newborn infants by placing them at a higher risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), being born with birth defects, developing behavioral and developmental delays, being born premature, etc. Children with addicted parents, are placed at a higher risk of: lacking appropriate supervision; lacking basic needs such as: food, clothing, housing, and medical care; exposure to violence; developing substance abuse issues themselves.