Lesson Two - Introduction

• What are the numbers?
• Neglect
  • Indicators
  • Causes
• Physical
  • Considerations
  • Causes
• Emotional
• Sexual
• Cultural Issues
• Guidelines

Abuse can be difficult to define because it varies from child to child. Children can be victimized in many different ways: physically, sexually, by neglect, kidnapping and homicide. It will look different each time you see it. Children can be victimized by a variety of people family members, caretakers, friends, acquaintances and strangers. Trauma is not limited to direct injury from abuse: children may be traumatized by being an eyewitness to crime, violence, and homicide.

Lesson two will describe various types of abuse and how it affects a child behaviorally and physically. Topics include:

• The statistics behind child maltreatment
• How abuse and neglect is defined
• The various types of abuse and neglect
• The physical and behavioral effects of abuse and neglect on a child
• Questionable situations
• How to identify normal development in a child.

The main objectives for this Lesson are:

• To understand why statistics are important to child maltreatment
• Know how to define abuse and neglect
• To identify physical and behavioral indicators of abuse and neglect
• To understand what to do in questionable situations

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