Sentences with phrase «experiencing physical and sexual abuse»

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I can't say that enough to all of the people here (and including myself) who have experienced abuse: physical, emotional, sexual or spiritual.

We stressed that although any one of these symptoms may not, in itself, indicate sexual abuse, all do show that the child is experiencing some kind of physical, emotional or psychological discomfort, and should be checked out.

Children in these families rarely experience or express any sense of individual identity, and are sometimes the object of physical and sexual abuse.

Utley says the experiences of Other Women may «be applicable to other relational power differentials between women and men, particularly relationships where there is exploitation or emotional, psychological, physical, sexual, social and / or financial abuse.»

ACEs usually refers to the 10 types of childhood adversity that were measured in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, a family member who's an alcoholic or addicted to other drugs, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, witnessing a mother being abused, a family member in prison, and loss of a parent through separation or divorce.

Additionally, a study published in 2016 in Psychiatric Times noted that the prevalence of suicide attempts was significantly higher in adults who experienced trauma, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse and parental domestic violence, as a child.

It is also used to help children process through difficult life circumstances such as death or loss, divorce, domestic violence, personal illness, traumatic experiences such as physical and sexual abuse, and natural disasters.

The types of stress that have been shown to cause developmental problems in children include sexual and physical abuse and serious neglect, described as «the absence of sufficient amounts of essential experiences,» which some children raised in state - run institutions in China and Romania suffered, for instance.

Sadly, for this group of homeless people, problems of anti-social behaviour could be traced back through a lifetime of exclusion, characterised by traumatic childhood experiences, including parental addiction, bereavement, going into local authority care, neglect and physical and sexual abuse.

Adverse experiences in childhood — such as the death of a parent, growing up in poverty, physical or sexual abuse, or having a parent with a psychiatric illness — have been associated with physical and mental health problems later in life.

The study, conducted at the University of Rochester's Mt. Hope Family Center and published online today in Child Maltreatment, found that mothers who experienced more types of abuse as children — sexual abuse, physical or emotional abuse, and physical or emotional neglect — have higher levels of self - criticism, and therefore greater doubt in their ability to be effective parents.

They focus on food issues and body issues as a diversionary tactic so they don't have to experience the underlying painful feelings hidden deep inside them that might be caused by experiences such as the death of a loved one, a divorce, verbal, physical or sexual abuse or the failure to live up to high expectations of others.

Among the many findings is that 80 % of teens know a victim of dating abuse, 47 % suffered personally control behavior and almost 3 experience sexual or physical violence or threats.

Love Is Respect defines dating violence as physical, sexual or emotional abuse by someone you're in a relationship with, and statistics on the site say that one in three U.S. teens will experience dating violence of some kind before their...

I've experienced all forms of abuse including emotional, physical, sexual and verbal.

Along the way, we learn that she was left traumatized by the physical and sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother's boyfriend while growing up in Chicago.

Joe's story continues, and we see her exploring more extreme sexual experiences (some depicted graphically enough to earn you college biology credits), including regular appointments for physical abuse at the hands of an S&M «counselor» (Jamie Bell, quietly disturbing).

Significant Objects, by Belfast born photographer Jim Mc Keever, is a visual narrative constructed of a soft, almost sepia toned and at times pastoral series of innocuous images that belay the deeper darker truth of one mans lifetime experience of unremitting physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of his «protectors» within the care system.

While some former students have spoken positively about their experiences at residential schools, these stories are far overshadowed by tragic accounts of the emotional, physical and sexual abuse and neglect of helpless children, and their separation from powerless families and communities.

Temporary foreign workers who are migrant workers, especially those employed in caregiving positions, have reported experiencing a wide range of abuse, including verbal, physical and sexual abuse.

Eleanor has experience acting in cases involving allegations of emotional, physical and sexual abuse including allegations of the utmost seriousness.

· Victims of sexual and physical abuse who, as adults, experienced abuse in various employment, housing and caregiving contexts; and

It is also used to help children process through difficult life circumstances such as death or loss, divorce, domestic violence, personal illness, traumatic experiences such as physical and sexual abuse, and natural disasters.

Her extensive experience encompasses cases of non-accidental injury, neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse of children.

Reunification can be a complex and difficult process because parents past experience has eroded the ability of one or both parents to nurture, particularly in high - conflict divorces or separations where there are allegations of sexual, physical, and / or emotional abuse of the children, domestic violence, or abuse of alcohol and drugs (and many times these issues overlap).

My life has been spent working with individuals and families and their experiences with sexual, substance, or physical abuse and trauma.»

I work with clients who have experienced abuse, both sexual and physical.

Experiences of violence were measured by the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child Institutional (ICAST - CI) 17 and some items from the WHO Multi Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women.3 Reliability and construct validity for the ICAST - CI were initially established in four countries and the instrument has since been translated into 20 languages and used extensively in multicountry research.17 Lifetime exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence were constructed as binary variables.

The JCTS2F has 10 items that measure respondents» experiences of abuse in IPV situations and five subscales: psychological aggression, physical assault, injury, sexual coercion, and negotiation.

As a therapist, it has been an amazing process to see the people I work with overcome a wide variety of traumatic experiences including abuse, neglect, abandonment, physical and sexual violence, and exposure to natural disasters and accidents.

«I have experience in treating clients with a variety of concerns, including self - esteem, coping, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and recovery from sexual, physical, spiritual or emotional abuse.

But the experience of prison (an institutionalising one) and earlier life experiences, often of poverty and disadvantage, drug and alcohol abuse, physical or sexual abuse and social alienation do not prepare many ex-prisoners to negotiate these social necessities successfully.

Christine A. Courtois PhD, ABPP specializes in the treatment of trauma, particularly for adults experiencing the effects of childhood incest and other forms of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.

I will help them set and achieve their own goals; I work with all types of couples to address communication, conflict, balancing priorities, and managing stress levels; And trauma issues could be surviving any type of abuse (physical, emotional / verbal, or sexual) or the result of a life changing event (natural disaster, military experiences, crime victimization, etcand achieve their own goals; I work with all types of couples to address communication, conflict, balancing priorities, and managing stress levels; And trauma issues could be surviving any type of abuse (physical, emotional / verbal, or sexual) or the result of a life changing event (natural disaster, military experiences, crime victimization, etcand managing stress levels; And trauma issues could be surviving any type of abuse (physical, emotional / verbal, or sexual) or the result of a life changing event (natural disaster, military experiences, crime victimization, etcAnd trauma issues could be surviving any type of abuse (physical, emotional / verbal, or sexual) or the result of a life changing event (natural disaster, military experiences, crime victimization, etc.).

«My clinical work focuses on individuals, couples and families, who have experienced trauma, including physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, and peer - related trauma, such as harassment, intimidation and bullying.

However dedicated most of those who managed individual schools may have been, a flawed governmental policy, poorly funded and administered, led to an educational experience that did not well serve many Aboriginal children, and that exposed some to terrible acts of physical and sexual abuse.

In fact, childhood stressors such as abuse, witnessing domestic violence, and other forms of household dysfunction are highly interrelated23, 24 and have a graded relationship to numerous health and social problems.23 - 28 We examined the relationship of 8 adverse childhood experiences (childhood abuse [emotional, physical, and sexual], witnessing domestic violence, parental separation or divorce, and living with substance - abusing, mentally ill, or criminal household members) to the lifetime risk of suicide attempts.

Main Outcome Measure Self - reported suicide attempts, compared by number of adverse childhood experiences, including emotional, physical, and sexual abuse; household substance abuse, mental illness, and incarceration; and parental domestic violence, separation, or divorce.

These findings are supported by studies on abused children and adolescents at high risk for suicidal behaviors.16, 42 The immediacy of the stress and the pain of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or witnessing domestic violence are experiences not easily escaped by children and adolescents, which may make suicide appear to be the only solution.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

I am experienced in working with trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, parenting issues, anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder.

If you are struggling with depression, anxiety, phobias, PTSD (trauma experience), bereavement, sexual / physical / emotional abuse, or marriage problems there is help for you and your situation.»

It is also common for young adults to begin processing how sexual, physical, or emotional abuse that they experienced as a child or a teen impacted them — sometimes this is brought up due to entering into an intimate relationship and discovering emotional or sexual barriers.

My experience as an eclectic therapist trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy), and CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) have helped former patients move beyond anxiety symptoms that may have resulted from childhood, military, marital, physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.

Discusses different reasons for women to arrive in prison, including substance abuse, physical and sexual victimization, and hospitalizations for psychological or emotional problems, as well as the role of prisons to provide appropriate treatment for women prisoners based on their experiences.

This workshop is inappropriate for couples experiencing: Severe relationship distress, significant emotional or physical abuse, serious emotional or physical abuse, relationships where one partner is seriously addicted to drugs or alcohol, and relationships with serious compulsive behavior with gambling, sexual action out, and other disruptive behaviors.

The NSPCC's services concentrate on seven important issues and groups of children most at risk: those who experience neglect, physical abuse in high - risk families (those families with violent adults, alcohol and drug abuse and mental health issues, those who experience sexual abuse, children under the age of one, disabled children, children from certain minority ethnic communities and looked after children.

Two is abuse in the home, be that sexual abuse or physical abuse and sometimes even mental abuse, and it doesn't have to be abuse that's experienced directly in the home for the child, it can also be abuse that's witnessed.

A traumatic experience can happen when a person's life has been threatened or severe injury has occurred such as a car accident, a bad fall, a hospital operation, a natural disaster like a flood, fire or cyclone, or being the victim or witness of violence such as physical and sexual abuse.

Prevalence of perceived experiences of emotional, physical, sexual, and health care abuse in a Swedish male patient sample