Sentences with phrase «distressed by the abuse»

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«This is what causes me distress and pain at the fact that some priests and bishops, by sexually abusing minors, violated their innocence and their own priestly vocation.

The reporting of this case by television and print media has focussed on the failures of the care home system and the failure of police and social workers to pick up the signs of distress when this abuse started.

Our clients were distressed by frequent moves between properties and away from essential services, racist abuse, lack of privacy, absence of locks on doors, pest infestation, broken facilities, poor hygiene and a failure to conduct repairs.

Add to this the unseen pressures — fractured or fragmented home lives, emotional or physical violence and abuse, struggles with substance use, legal problems, and the wide range of issues borne by the many immigrant communities across the country — and it makes for a period of unsustainable emotional distress.

If you are harassed or abused by a debt collector, you may be entitled to recover damages for your emotional distress.

We help everyone be a «Good Samaritan» for pets and animals by reporting animal abuse, neglect, and distress.

According to Geeta Seshamani, co-founder and vice-president of Friendicoes, the shelter ambulance responds to «over 900 distress calls each month» relating to stray animals that have been hit by cars, are sick or have been abused or traumatized by cruel handling.

In the context of the emotional or psychological abuse of a child by a daycare - center employee, the daycare center may be found liable for the employee's conduct if it has been established that the employee engaged in the intentional infliction of emotional distress in his or her abuse of the child - plaintiff, resulting in severe emotional stress to the child.

More than 50 percent of nursing home abuse cases involved death, followed by pressure sores, dehydration / malnutrition and emotional distress.

Also unclear is whether related claims arising out of sexual harassment or sexual abuse, such as assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, are covered by Section 13307.

• Assess the daycare curriculum to determine lesson planning needs and provide assistance to lead teacher in developing lessons • Provide support in implementing lessons by ensuring that constant logistical sustenance is available to the lead teacher • Monitor students to ensure that they are at their best behavior and ensure that classroom environment is safe an conducive to their learning needs • Assist students in understanding concepts taught in school to ensure that they meet their educational, social and cognitive goals • Create and develop learning aids to assist teachers in introducing new concepts • Observe students to ensure that they are kept comfortable and inform lead teacher of any signs of discomfort and / or distress • Assist students in washing, toileting and eating and change diapers for very young enrolled student • Report any suspected physical or emotional abuse on the students by keeping an active watch on symptoms and / or signs • Create and maintain students» records such as timesheets and attendance in a confidential manner

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

When there is a divorce situation, some warning signs of distress are displayed by «acting out» behaviors, such as running away, truanting from school, school suspension, physical fighting, trouble with the law, drug and alcohol abuse, and promiscuity.

For more than 25 years, multiple studies have shown that participation in BCT by married or co-habitating partners results in significant reductions in substance abuse and marital distress, and also improves relationship satisfaction.

Run by RAV's Registered Training Organisation, the Vocational Graduate Diploma of Relationship Counselling puts family and intimate relationships under the spotlight, including the needs of children in distressed families and relationships where violence and abuse are present.

«You can enter psychotherapy for a variety of reasons, all of which I can help you through - reduce emotional distress in order to regain a sense of fulfillment in life and / or restore the ability to function in daily activities, improve relationship difficulties caused by issues such as ineffective communication, gain control of unhealthy behaviors such as substance abuse or disordered eating, facilitate healing or promote well - being by nurturing the psychological, emotional, spiritual aspects of oneself, engage in a process of exploration to increase a sense of well - being and satisfaction with ones self, work, school and / or relationships.»

Insecure attachment styles are associated with emotional distress and interpersonal issues which are brought about by their histories of neglect and abuses during infancy.

Legislation promoted by Committee for Children requiring that school districts factor in sexual abuse when planning to help students in emotional distress is on its way to Governor Jay Inslee's desk for signature following a unanimous vote of support today in the Senate.

Limitations include that the direction of the discrepancy can not be determined by the statistical methods used in the study, the somewhat low reliabilities of the FES subscales, and that results may not be generalizable to other populations, as families with a substance abusing runaway adolescent have long been recognized to represent some of the most distressed families.

Legislation promoted by Committee for Children requiring that school districts factor in sexual abuse when planning to help students in emotional distress has been signed by Governor Jay Inslee.

Children living in households with domestic abuse are significantly affected by the trauma and experience acute distress.

The process of removal was often «physically torturous» and resulted in «long - term mental and emotional distress», with people being arrested, often placed in neck chains, and marched by foot under the supervision and often abuse of police troopers long distances to the coast, where they were then transported across to Palm Island.

Childhood experiences include the individual's failure to find support and care in the face of traumatic attachment events, such as abuse or sexual trauma, loss or parental psychopathology [26; 50; 53 — 59], and are characterized by exhibiting social difficulties [60 — 61], an unstructured expression of inner distress, and the inability to regulate this distress in social relationships [62 — 63].