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Child abuse is divided into four (4) basic categories: A) PHYSICAL The infliction on physical injury on a child, including burning,hitting, punching, shaking, kicking, beating or toherwise harming a child. The parent or caretaker may not have hurt the child intentionally; however, the injury is not result of an accident. It may be the result of over-discipline or physical punishment that is inappropriate to the child's age. B) EMOTIONAL (verbal abuse, mental abuse, psychological abuse) This includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders. This form of abuse may include extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement in a dark room or closet or being tied to a chair for long periods of time, or threatening or terrorizing a child. Less severe acts, but very common, yet just as damaging, are belittling or rejecting treatment, using derogatory terms to describe the child and habitual scapegoating or blaming. Typical examples of less severe acts includes comments such as "You're stupid!" or "You're useless!" C) SEXUAL Inappropriate sexual behavior with a child including fondling a child's genitals, making teh child fondle the adult's genitals, inercourse, incest, rape, sodomy, exhibitionism and sexual exploitation. D) NEGLECT Failure to provide the child with the basic physical, educational or emotional needs. Physcial neglect includes not providing adequate food or clothing, medical care, supervision or proper shelter. It may also include abandonment. Educational neglect cinludes the failure to provide appropriate schooling, allowing excessive truancies and failure to guide the child's educational development. Psychological neglect may include the lack of any emotional support or love, never attending to the child, spousal abuse, substance abuse and allowing the child to participate in substance abuse. |
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