PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psychological Abuse, Exhibitionism, Physical Abuse
5 Apr 2019
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Shaking: an attempt to get a baby to stop crying. Very dangerous: often unintentional and resulting from severe physical punishment that has gone out of hand, neglect, child"s basic needs are not being met, physical neglect. Food, refusal of health care, inadequate supervision: educational neglect. Not putting a child of mandatory age in school, not attending to special education needs: emotional neglect. 2: actions that don"t fall into the other categories, telling the child that: you don"t love them, you wish they weren"t born, that they were an accident . Note that all abuse will cause emotional harm: epidemiology, challenges of studying incidence and prevalence of child abuse, people may not be willing to report this. Helps make the case that people around children need to be able to detect child maltreatment. Both ethically and legally, psychologists witnessing child maltreatment or is aware that it"s happening, must report it. People typically lie so that their children won"t be taken away.
