Physical abuse is any intentional act that causes a physical injury to a child. ... Physical abuse may cause serious emotional problems that last long after the physical injury has healed (Kent & Waller, 1998). ... This form of abuse may occur with or without physical abuse, but they are often grouped together. ... Emotional abuse can hurt as much as physical abuse, but it is much harder to identify because the marks are left on the inside. ... Often emotional abuse occurs for many of the same reasons that physical abuse occurs. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

More focus must be put on this topic to be able to accurately profile the characteristics of a child sexual abuser. ... This research is primarily focused on general characteristics of an offender, different types of abuse, and victims of child sexual abuse. ... "The sexual abusers of children are highly dissimilar in terms of personal characteristics, life experiences, and criminal histories" (doc1). However, there are some very general guidelines to their characteristics including an offender's sexual focus, victimization as children, social competence, personality and developmental ...

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Only 8% had experienced physical abuse alone. ... Most women who suffer any physical aggression generally experience multiple acts over time. ... Among women reporting any physical aggression, 70% reported severe abuse. ... Surveys generally define physical acts more severe than slapping, pushing, shoving, or throwing objects as "severe violence."" ... Women often say that the psychological abuse and degradation are even more difficult to bear than the physical abuse. ...

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The most obvious questions that are usually asked are why does domestic violence occur and what are the major factors that correlate with men who inflict physical or emotional harm towards a loved one? ... Behaviors that demonstrate a high need for control and power is a risk factor that can be used with extreme measures that could promote physical and or emotional abuse. ... Researchers concluded that controlling behaviors were one of the best predictors of perpetrators inflicting emotional and physical abuse on to their partner. ... They found control is usually implemented through physical ...

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Whether in the form of physical or emotional abuse, violence is never acceptable at any level. ... It's important to have community based programs that aim to teach the young and the adult what is considered appropriate relationship characteristics. ... Domestic violence can take the form of physical, emotional, psychological, as well as sexual abuse. Being controlled by another person by use of physical force, mental manipulation, as well as threats are all forms of abuse. ...

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And yet there are those youths that have not been classified as falling into any of the categories already mentioned but who may exhibit characteristics of them all. ... Flowers also summarized the characteristics of runaways as follow: n 70% are white, 1 in 5 are black. ... n 50% were victims of physical or sexual 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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