In the NEAIS, the phrase "elder maltreatment" generally refers to the seven types of abuse and neglect that are measured in the study-physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, abandonment, neglect, and self-neglect. ... What are the characteristics of self-neglecting elders? ... Characteristics of Victims of Domestic Elder Abuse Of 236,479 reports of abuse, neglect, and self-neglect to APS in 1996, 48.7 percent, or 115,110 reports were substantiated after investigation, 39.3 percent were unsubstantiated, and 8.2 percent were still un...

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Characteristics of this problem are as follows: unhealthy dependency of the abuser on the victim, the disturbed psychological state of the perpetrator, the frailty, disability or impairment of the victim and isolation of the family. ... Physical and psychological abusers are likely to have a history of psycho-apathy and to be dependent on the victim for financial resources. ... Characteristics of abusers were also discussed in the article. ...

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Definition & Description Domestic violence is defined as the physical or emotional abuse of an adult or child by a family member or friend. Physical abuse includes pushing, slapping, or grabbing, throwing objects, kicking, biting or punching, beating up, raping or sexually exploiting an adult or child and/or threatening with a weapon. Emotional abuse includes name calling, making jokes that are demeaning, verbally threatening physical abuse, isolating or unreasonably confining an adult or child, and/or the repeated humiliation of an adult or child (Woman Aware [Brochure]). ... These characteri...

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They cause physical and emotional pain. ... More people who get bullied are struggling with more emotional pain within themselves and their family, rather than physical pain. ... Well yeah, there's going to be different characteristics that you have, but that only makes you unique. To me, bullies are jealous of those characteristics that you do have. ...

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Several characteristics of this heterogeneous population are mentioned, as well as estimates of the group. ... However, there are some patterns in characteristics. ... Race and ethnicity is not an important characteristic to describe the homeless youth population. ... Many homeless adolescents report histories of neglect and physical and sexual abuse. In 17 shelters nationally, staff estimates of physical abuse among their clients ranged from 20% to 40%, sexual abuse ranged downward from 5%, and neglect ranged from 14% to 100% (Salamon). ...

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In Lord of the Flies, the mockery centers around Piggy, whose physical appearance and feminine characteristics isolate him from the rest of the children. ... When this immorality takes physical shape in the form of the Lord of the Flies, the laughter is used to make Simon and all good on the island feel discarded and repudiated. ...

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In Lord of the Flies, the mockery centers around Piggy, whose physical appearance and feminine characteristics isolate him from the rest of the children. ... When this immorality takes physical shape in the form of the Lord of the Flies, the laughter is used to make Simon and all good on the island feel discarded and repudiated. ...

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In some cases a lot of the convicted suffer from abuses, such as physical or emotional. ... A lot of the people could have went through physical abuse from peers or parents. ... Some of he characteristics include; personal charm, a controlled mood, and along with many others (Ronald Holmes). ...

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According to Bandyopadhyay and Omar (2010), dating violence is any emotional, psychological, physical, and/or sexual act that is abusive in nature. ... Dating violence can occur as early as the first date, so it's imperative that all teenagers - straight, bi, lesbian, gay or transexual - to understand the characteristics of who is, or could become, a violent companion. ... Still, Courtney noticed that not only was she experiencing verbal abuse, physical abuse began to come in the picture as well. ... After breaking up with her girlfriend of two years, Courtney joined Project Wow of New ...

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Although research indicates that among men who drink heavily, there is a higher rate of perpetrating assaults resulting in serious physical injury than exists among other men, the majority of men are not high-level drinkers and the majority of men classified as high-level drinkers do not abuse their partners. ... Through accounts from battered and formerly schoolboys, alcohol violence is now understood to include a range of behaviors - physical, sexual, economic, emotional and psychological abuse. ... In the cases in which battered people report that the level of physical abuse decreases, the...

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Physical abuse accounts for about one in four substantiated cases of child abuse. It is the most visible form of abuse and may be defined as any act that results in a non-accidental trauma or physical injury. ... Criminal sanctions may also apply in cases of sexual or physical abuse. ... These traits make it difficult to cope with demands of their children and increase likelihood of emotional or physical abuse. ... Mental retardation or physical or developmental disabilities can also increase stress of parenting and risk of abuse. ...

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Grace uses the characters Marney (The Geranium) and Dean (My Leanne) to show the readers obsession begets abusive behaviour and the toll it has on people's physical and emotional well-being. ... " The careful selection of the verb "shooting" implies that Dean shows signs of violent tendencies, which was characteristic of some domestic abusers. ... " This mirrors Dean's interrogation with Leanne, which shows that this is characteristic of abusive behaviour and is not unique to either of the abusers. ...

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No later than this, it becomes evident that Davies is not just an innocent old man, who has been mistreated, and with this untrustworthy, even apalling behaviour he shows such ungratitude and self-evidently negative characteristics that no longer can he purely be indentified with. ... Next time that he appears he attacks Davies, who is searching the room, from behind demonstrating his physical superiority over an old threadbare vagrant. ...

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Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, but sadly it is often overlooked, excused, or denied. Most define abuse as physical, but it can also be psychological. Emotional abuse can cause just as much, if not more damage. It is difficult to understand why some chose to live in fear of the per...

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Both sex and sex-typed personal characteristics were associated with age and birth order. ... For many, power assertion through physical punishment such as spankings falls within the category of physical abuse and withdrawal of love practices related to this punishment may fall under the domain of physiological or emotional abuse. ...

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Almost one in five children today has experienced serious physical abuse, sexual abuse or severe physical or emotional neglect at some point in their lifetime. ... The review also adopted a systems approach to analyze why the current problems have arisen, to set out the characteristics of an effective child protection system and to outline the reforms that might help the current system get closer to the ideal. ...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male...

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