Infants and toddlers who witness violence in their homes show extreme irritability, immature behavior, sleeping disorders, emotional suffering, fears of being alone, and decline in toileting and language skills. ... The presence of symptoms in these young children is similar to posttraumatic stress disorder in adults, including continual experiencing of the traumatic event, avoidance, and lack of response ("Health Plus"). ... Others use therapy techniques used to treat posttraumatic stress disorder. ... Although the American Psychological Association has recently focused attention on childhoo...

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The disorder is characterized by a pathological pattern of alcohol use that causes a serious impairment in social and occupational functioning. ... Children are more likely to develop psychological problems, suffer physical and sexual abuse and neglect. Defective parenting causes children to experience abnormal psychological development. ... Although alcohol-related disorders can strike anyone, poverty and physical or sexual abuse also increase the odds. ...

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The impact of violence depicts physical and psychological injury to its victim. ... Examine the psychological stance of a raped victim and a witness of rape. ... Evidently, rape cannot be visualized because the experience is physically, as well as psychologically. ... In this sense, the witness of sexual violence, and the their psychological after effects exist only as memory, a visual impact of images that translates into signs ( symbolically ). ... Other times, the victim's experience of pain isolates and breaks the body rhythm, inducing hallucination and derealization, which psycholog...

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Battered Wife Syndrome is a psychological condition of a wife stemming from prolonged emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse from their spouse. ... Battered Wife Syndrome diagnoses are extremely similar to those of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). ... Rachel Yehuda, PhD, a professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division, at defines PTSD as an anxiety disorder that happens to people that are exposed to an extreme traumatic event that caused fear, horror, or helplessness (Yehuda, 2002). ... Professiona...

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Post-traumatic stress disorder also acts as a deterrent because of the symptom of disassociation. ... Sufferers of this particular psychological disorder experience a difficult time leaving because they aren't mentally capable of realizing the dangers they actually face. ...

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In those families are mothers who have had an extreme experience of child abuse which led to psychological distress in adulthood, and which contributed to them abusing their own children. ... "Researchers have found that children of depressed parents are at greater risk of psychiatric disorders than are children of nondepressed parents" (Lindsey et al., 2008, p.80). ...

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Dating violence, defined as "any attempt to control or dominant another person physically, sexually, psychologically, resulting in harm (Voltz at el, 2000: #587) Relationships whether it is a dating or friendship should maintain a healthy connection. ... Teen relationship violence often contributes to depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and anxiety. ...

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This essay will briefly look at the historic aspect of pornography, from ancient times, through the risque Victorian period to what preceded the page three girl. It will look at the feminist theories, which say that, pornography leads to the subordination of women, and how men's exposure to pornography can lead to sexual violence towards women. However, pornography has a lighter side and can be used for entertainment and educational purposes, these avenues will also be explored. Pornography has been around for thousands of years. The Egyptians, as far back as 3000 B.C, depicted s...

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No one ever imagines that they would allow themselves to be in a domestic violence relationship; however it's more common than one would think. No one can begin to understand how it happens until it does. I know this because it happened to me. My first love as a teenager was also my worst. I met him...

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