Child Abuse

Learning Opportunity
Erika Chen, Monikea Williams, Cortney Keen, Schyler Sullivan
What is child abuse?
͐ When A parent or caregiver causes injury, death, emotional harm or
risk of serious harm to child
͐ 4 forms of abuse
￫ Neglect
￫ Physical
￫ Sexual
￫ emotional
͐ Usually found in combinations, than alone
Child abuse is:
EMOTIONAL
SEXUAL PHYSICAL

parent or caregiver causes parent or caregiver harms

adult uses a child for
a child’s mental and
sexual purposes or any non-accidental
social development, or
involves a child in physical injury to child
causes severe emotional
sexual acts
harm
CHILD NEGLECT IS:

parent or caregiver does

not give the care,
supervision, affection
and support needed for
child’s health, safety, and
well beinG
TODAY’S ACTIVITY
ROUND 1 ROUND 2
͐ Sticky notes ͐ For each video
￫ Blue - physical ￫ Anything look wrong?
￫ Orange - emotional ￫ Suggestions?
￫ Pink - sexual
￫ Green - neglect
Video 1
 BLue - physical
Orange - emotional
Pink - sexual
Green - neglect
Video 1
 Possible answers
͐ Physical and Neglect Abuse
○ Mother Throwing the daughter outside in the rain
͐ Emotional Abuse
○ Throwing toys aways
○ Mother calling the daughter names
Video 2
 Blue - physical
Orange - emotional
Pink - sexual
Green - neglect
Video 2
 Possible answers
͐ Sexual Abuse
○ Alone with child in the woods
○ Asking to take off clothes
○ Saying this is “our game”
○ Threatening to tell her dad
What can you do?
͐ Call Child protection hotline at (800) 540-4000
͐ Talk to someone you trust-teacher or principal
͐ Look for warning signs
○ changes in child’s behavior and unexplained
injuries
References
The Issues of Child Abuse. 2018. Retrieved from

https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse/