What Are the Psychological Effects and Signs of All Types of Child Abuse?

Question by With her head in the clouds: What are the psychological effects and signs of all types of child abuse?
Displayed by children while it’s happening and in the immediate aftermath AND psychological effects it has on them for the rest of their life.

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Answer by Gary B
Everything from bed wetting to suicide. Take your choice.

There is NO one definitive sign of child abuse Bed Wetting is often exhibited by abused children, but bed wetting is ALSO caused by under-developed sphincter muscles, or an overload of sugar and caffeine.

Suicide can be caused by abuse, but also by overbearing parents and “teenage angst”.

Abused children often cling illogically to the parent that is abusing them. but this is ALSO caused by separation anxiety in the case of a divorce, or a parent who is absent from the child’s life for an inordinate amount of time (like long business trips).

DO NOT attempt to hang a label of “child abuse” on anyone until you have FIRST had the child examine by a Child Psychologist who is experienced with abuse cases. ONLY through his examination can abuse be suspected.

Child abuse often has severe effects on the adult life of the victim, but it does not HAVE to be so. When the abuse is located and stopped, the child (or adult!) needs many sessions of therapy to first learn to forgive the abuser, and second to learn that what is important is not what happened in the past, but what can happen in the future.

in the case of a child, it is EXTREMELY important that the parent(s) be supportive and forward looking rather than accusing (of the abuser) and “living in the past”.

Answer by Miguel c
OH well there are first of all 4 types of abuse: sexual, physical, psychological and neglect.

the showing signs are different for any of this types but over all there are signs of distress, effects can also be paradigmatic BY that …meaning that someone can become overactive and others depressed… extroverted and others introverted… so it really depends on child or person.

Some people are affected for the rest of theirlivess and some other are not. So again it changes, some of them are traumatized and they should bethreatenn like post traumatized stress disordered… but if you are talking about an adult who doesn’t remember or is unsure of the effect of trauma should do check on how is their current relation ship
and hos is this affecting their reactions to sex,etc if problems obviously help is needed.

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