QCF module 5

Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm. Typically includes hitting, slapping, pushing, pinching, kicking, punching, scalding other considerations that are physical

Neglect: medical condition deteriorating unexpectedly or not improving as expected, hypothermia or person cold or dressed inadequately, unexplained loss of weight, clothes or body dirty and smelly, delays in seeking medical attention

Physical abuse is where someone is causing physical harm to another. This could be hitting, pushing, slapping, pinching, kicking, scalding, restraint, misuse of medication and other things causing harm. Signs or this would be unexplainable; red marks and bruising, cuts and grazes, burns, weight loss, finger marks, fractures, scratches, pressure ulcers and sores and/ rashes from wet/soiled bedding. The person being abused would also have behavioural changes, health deterioration with our obvious cause.

Neglect by others means when someone knowing is ignoring and/or with holding physical or medical care.

Physical abuse is any intentional and unwanted contact with you or something close to your body. Sometimes abusive behaviour does not cause pain or leave bruises but it 's still unhealthy.

Self-neglect/Neglect is when a person/carer does not pay attention to their/service users health and well-being. Service users/Carers can neglect themselves/Service users due to illness or depression or might intentionally neglect themselves/service users. The signs and symptoms include: living in dirty conditions, poor personal hygiene, poor nutrition, not getting medical help, not being interested in the way they look, long toe nails not taking medication.

Neglect: parents who cannot meet a child’s basic daily needs such as; hygiene, hunger, clothing and shelter. This can cause the child’s health to worsen and for their development to suffer. The child can also be left with people who cannot properly care for them. Signs and symptoms:

The meaning of neglect is a pattern of not being able to provide basic needs.As shown in the chart above neglect is the most common type of child abuse. Neglect is almost three times more common than physical and sexual abuse combined. This category is broken up into three groups: Physical neglect, education neglect, and emotional neglect.

Neglect is the failure of family / Whanau / support workers to fulfil their responsibilities to provide needed care. Neglect is about being deprived of treatment, care, food, comforts and any rights they are entitled to.

Neglect in Nursing Homes According to the Webster dictionary neglect is defined as “to give little attention or respect to” (Webster). In the United States there is a major problem with neglect in our nursing homes. Everyday neglect occurs in a nursing home. Whether it be physical neglect or emotional neglect, there are several different causes.

Self neglect is a behavioral condition in which a person has the inability or unwillingness to attend to one’s personal needs or hygiene. This may be seen in various ways: malnutrition, hygiene, clothing or compliance for medications. This is due to dementia, brain damage or mental illnesses like depression or psychotic disorders.

Neglecting is a treatment towards a neglected person for whom there is a lack of care by another person in the first place. It returns an upsetting impact on that person neglected regardless of any stage of life the victim is going through.

Neglect, the state of being uncared for. A sense of being forgotten in this instance. As children grow up their parents and caregivers will think of them as being more independent and allow them to run themselves, except it’s often not always announced to the child and they start to feel neglected. A parent all of a sudden busy with work and never has time to listen to stories from the child, whereas when the child was younger the parent was always there to listen to stories and play. All that has happened is the child has matured and the parent thinks that they can survive on their own without constant coddling and supervision. Feeling neglected can also come from peers. At school, especially in middle school, children start to form cliques. In sixth grade, I was trying to hang out at lunch with

Physical abuse includes any non-accidental physical injury (ranging from bruises to severe fracture or death) caused by the child’s parent, care taker, or other person who has responsibility for the child . The injury is always considered as abuse. Physical abuse in the sense, include beating , punching , stabbing , kicking a child or the children . In short it can be said harming a child physically . Much of the physical abuse of the children starts at home and it is inflicted with the object of punishing . The physical abuse of the children lead to physical and mental difficulties in future . A greatest degree of stress in the family environment is

While this goes hand in hand with emotional abuse, the two are also different. Neglect is where a parent overly ignores their child’s needs and health (“Child Help”). This is different than emotional abuse because in emotional abuse cases, the parent lowers a child’s confidence; in neglect cases the child almost feels invisible to their caregiver. Traits shown in a neglectful parent can be lack of care, too much responsibility on child, and apathy. Neglect is very difficult to catch though, often requiring a pattern to be noticed (“Child Help”). Neglect can very quickly lead to lifelong harm and mental issues, but most importantly, the responsibilities a child must take care of can cause an end to their care-free days of being a