Describing the Different Types of Abuse

Physical abuse – involves causing deliberate physical harm to a child and may include burning, drowning, hitting, poisoning, scalding, shaking, suffocating or throwing. Physical abuse also includes deliberately causing, or fabricating the symptoms of, ill health in a child.

Sexual abuse is any type of non-consensual contact which an adult cannot or hasn’t consented to or has been put under pressure to do so. It can include a person touching your private parts or making you touch theirs. Forcing a person to perform sexual acts on them or receive them which can then result in rape. Situations that make a person feel uncomfortable, for example making sexual comments, making a person watch pornography videos or rubbing their body against theirs.

Dictionary has explained that an abuse is the misuse of words and corrupt practice i.e bad practice in short. Google describe abuse in two ways

Sexual: Sexual abuse is the type of abuse when someone is forced into doing sexual acts without their consent to cause pain or humiliation. It can include horrible name calling, refusal to use contraception, causing unwanted

1.1b – Sexual abuse can be defined as forcing an individual to take part in sexual activities or behave in sexually inappropriate ways. 1.2b -

Psychological or emotional abuse can also be emotional and mental. It affects adults in many ways. This type of abuse can be oral, through messages or through actions. For example, a previous partner could be jealous of a new relationship and try and separate the two people by creating lies. This problem can occur in both men and women. A person could be threatened and treated with little respect to make the other person seem more superior than the threatened person. Continuous put-downs and name calling can also be psychological abuse as the person could feel embarrassed and humiliated in front of others. All of these things can lead to a person feeling

Physical abuse is using physical force in a non-accidental way which results in bodily injury, pain or impairment.

Physical abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm.

Sexual abuse, whether of adults or children, is also abuse of a position of power. It also covers any behaviour by any adult towards a child to stimulate either the adult or child sexuality. When the victim is younger than the age of consent (it is a minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts), it is referred to as child sexual abuse.

Abuse of vulnerable adults may occur at the adult's home, in a supportive accommodation such a hospital, care home or nursing home, independent living accomadtation, health services such as GP surgeries, public settings and local community or other places previously assumed safe. Where the abuse occurs will be determined by the setting in the environment. Nursing care homes, surgeries and hospitals usually have strict regulatory controls to ensure adequate care is being given, however paid care staff in domiciliary homes may work with little or no supervision. Where there is poor management, little assessment and no enforced legislation in place, those receiving support are more likely to receive inadequate care; this is when abuse starts to occur.

Sexual abuse is the act of forcing someone to participate in forceful, unwanted sexual activity. It could be in the form of intercourse, anal or oral sex, or penetration with an object. Sexual abuse is often associated with physical abuse; they may happen at the same time, or the sexual abuse may occur after the individual is physically abused (Benedictis, Jaffe, Segal, 2012).

Another type of abuse, is physical abuse which is often the main cause for a child to be abused. Physical abuse involves physical harm to the child, it may be the result from a parent deliberately trying to hurt a child, but that’s not always the case. “Physical abuse can result from severe discipline, such as using a belt on a child, or physical punishment that is not appropriate to the child’s age or physical condition” (National Children’s Alliance). Help Guide states that “the differences in physical abuse and discipline are shown in 3 elements, unpredictability, lashing out of anger, and using fear to control behavior”. In the action of unpredictability, the child never knows what is going to upset the parent. The parent does not set clear

Sexual abuse can be of different forms and in different conditions. Sexual abuse is defined as the engage of a person in sexual activities that he or she does not understand, to which he or she can 't give consent for many reasons as age or disabilities,

(a) Physical abuse is causing harm to another person through a physical act and an intending pain. It is used in a meaningful way.

Identify, and briefly justify, the types of maltreatment evident in the case study and give a definition of each