Child Abuse: The Turbin Family

“There are situations of where the child shuts down and stays in his own world. Studies have shown a link between child abuse and delayed intellectual development. The child loses his ability to adapt to his or her environment leading to poor cognitive development. The child produces feelings of guilt, violation, loss of control and lowered self-esteem sometimes with suicidal tendencies. Common problems include emotional and behavioral problems, poor performance in school, and possible further abuse (Husted).

The importance of Childhood Trauma is associated with the way children react later on in their life, as it plays an important role. There are several different types of maltreatment that are associated with abuse that can harm the child in the long run. Any type of physical abuse, emotional abuse or sexual abuse contributes to the negative affects that can change the child’s personality. If the child’s parents obtain physical neglect or emotional neglect, it can factor in changing a child’s moods, as it causes them to change into a different person. This experience causes them to develop different types of personality disorders such as Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic, Paranoia, Schizoid, and Schizotypal. Many children are affected through the terrible experience which develops mistrust in the world, and later causes them to turn against society because of the constant neglect that is inflicted onto them.

According to Hussey et al (2006), it is estimated that one million children are victims of abuse and neglect on a yearly basis. Of those one million children, 1500 will die due to abuse or neglect. It is also estimated that 50% of adolescents have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event (De Arellano and Danielson 2008). One particular consequence of extreme abuse and neglect is the development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Symptoms of PTSD include persistent and recurrent invasive thoughts focused around the traumatic event, avoidance of symbolic representations related to the traumatic event, increased arousal including difficulties sleeping, irritability, concentration challenges, hypervigilance, increased

Children who are frequently abused may act as if danger is always present in their life. Research has come up with the statistics that children exposed to abuse are at a more of a risk for emotional and behavioral problems in the future if left unaddressed or ignored. Abused children are robbed of the ability to regulate their emotions, and when they become adults they will continue to struggle with their feelings, leading to an anxiety problem or depression.

“The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”-Albert Einstein. Child abuse was common among the workhouse to scare the children into working hard or to discipline them. Now parents abuse their children because they were abused as kids or to release anger, and discipline the child. Child abuse is the neglecting or beating of a minor (-18), abuse of a child is also can be verbal abuse, in which you put them down and make them pity themselves.

Psychological trauma in children is defined as the mental result of one or more external situations which causes temporary helplessness beyond a person’s ordinary coping skills (Ogawa, 2004). One of the most disturbing and devastating trauma in society is the abuse and neglect of children. Many abused children suffer from emotional and behavioural difficulties, which often require psychotherapy (James & Mennen, 2001).

Abused children live in constant fear of physical harm from a person who is supposed to care for and protect them. They may feel guilt at loving the abuser or blame themselves for causing the violence.Victims of child abuse may feel that they are bad and deserve the abuse. They usually have poor self-esteem. In addition to physical injuries that may be the result of abuse, child victims may develop eating disorders or sleep disturbances, including nightmares. They may develop speech disorders or developmental lags in their motor skills. Many child victims demonstrate some form of self-destructive behavior. They may develop physical illness such as asthma, ulcers, allergies, or recurring headaches. Also, they often experience irrational and persistent fears or hatreds and demonstrate either passive or aggressive behavioral

Abstract: Childhood abuse has been present throughout many years but it has never been brought into life as it is today. The child’s brain is just as a sponge, absorbing every detail of their daily lives. If the child lives in an environment where there is abuse, that child in the future will do the same because it was what he got used to. Many parents use violence as a form of punishment when they do not realize that by only being violent, they are creating a trauma on the child which can lead in the future to depression, substance abuse, physical abuse and losing touch of reality. Even though children have to learn to have an education, do not resort to abuse.

Continuous mental health problems are a common factor of child abuse in adults. Mental health problems related to past history of child assaults and it generally includes Post-traumatic disorder, personality disorders, dissociative disorders, depression, anxiety disorders and psychosis. I will explain post-traumatic stress disorder here as it is the most common case after experienced child sexual abuse.

Living in an abusive environment has a vast array of effects on children. More severe physical and sexual abuse towards a child could cause physical harm such as fractures and internal injuries (Lane, Bair-Merritt, & Dubowitz, 2011). These injuries would probably cause the child to experience severe pain and potentially cause permanent disability, disfigurement or death if not treated. It has been indicated that childhood abuse affects mental health and can increase susceptibility to depression, anxiety related disorders, ADHD and suicidal ideation. These issues could affect children throughout their lives and some may not surface until various stages of life (Comijs et al., 2013; Hart, & Rubia, 2012; Norman et al., 2012; Sugaya et al., 2012). This is not an exhaustive list of the potential mental or physical health affects of childhood

It is documented that millions of children are abused every year and that most abuse cases happen in the home. The most common forms of abuse that occur to children are maltreatment and neglect. (Hodgdon, Kinniburgh, Gabowitz, Blaustein, & Spinazzola, 2013). Research shows that abuse causes a negative impact on children who have been mistreated. Some examples of this are the abuse disrupts the biological and psychological development of these children, and the abuse also causes behavior, learning, and emotional problems within the children who have experienced any sort of abuse (Brassard & Rivelis, 2009). Some of the symptoms that children who have been abused experience are depression, PTSD, internalizing and externalizing behaviors (Kjellgren, Svedin, & Nilsson, 2013). Overall, abuse can have a severe negative effect on children and their development, which means that there needs to be an effective treatment to help these children cope and treat their symptoms.

We often wonder what happens to a child who has been sexually, physically, and emotionally abused. What kind of psychological disorders do they develop? What kind of damage has been done to the brain for the child to then act out inappropriately? What kind of possible physiological disorders could the child then start to develop? We’ve seen that their relationships are affected in every stage of life.

When the average human population deliberates about child abuse and neglect we naturally focus on the effects of their childhood development. Recent studies have shown that abused and neglected children are not only affected short term but long term as well. “A developing scientific consensus indicated that the origins of adult disease are often found among developmental and biological disruptions occurring during the early years of life”(Widom, Czaja, Bently, and Johnson, 2012 p. 1). Child abuse and neglect can range from bruises, burns, and welts, to even poor hygiene, and inappropriate dress. Abuse also causes developmental and psychological effects like anxiety, depression, and dissociation. All of the physical and psychological effects

Core purpose is to highlight the main aspects of the on-going topic which hugely effected the children’s behavior. Although, the visible signs of emotional abuse in children can be difficult to identify, the hidden scars of this type of abuse outcomes in numerous behavioral ways including insecurity, poor self-esteem, destructive behavior, angry acts, poor development of basic skills, alcohol or drug abuse, attempting suicide, difficulty in forming relationships and unstable job histories.

When children are physically abused, they will suffer from fear, anxiety, and isolation. Physical punishment might be by kicking, punching, or by causing some harmful scars by torturing in a bad way. Some people think that it is good to use violence and ignorance with kids to make them able and strong enough to force their obstacles throughout their lives. Abusing is nothing but a waking kids, and making them awake for what they might face in the future. According to Straus (1980)” Child abuse typically refers to acting committed by parents on their children, which other members of the society view as inappropriate and harmful. If the child is being abused, he will be scared and afraid if the abuser is one of his parents. So, Violence against children is from serious social phenomena. Punishing and neglecting has a huge impact for kids because this could affect them with their whole life, and it would also cause some unwanted behaviors Any child who has been badly abused will suffer from lack of empathy that will grow up with him. Parents should find out the best ways to encourage their kids and take care of them, such as provision of health and psychological care for the