CYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Hypervigilance, World Health Organization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 201
• Professor: Sherry Mosko

Document Summary

An esimated 18,688 cases of physical abuse were substaniated in canada in 2008, a rate of 3. 1 cases of substaniated physical abuse per 1,000 children. Primary form = maltreatment (cruel or violent treatment of a person or animal; mistreatment) Shake, push, grab, or throw: includes pulling or dragging a child as well as shaking an infant. Not stabbing with a knife: other physical abuse: any other form of physical abuse including choking, strangling, stabbing, burning, shooing, poisoning, and the abusive use of restraints. Just over half (54%) of the substaniated physical abuse cases involved a child being hit with a hand; 30% of children being shaken, pushed, grabbed or thrown; 21% involved a child being hit with an object; 8% being punched, kicked or biten; 10% classiied as other physical abuse. While invesigaion protocols require careful examinaion of and physical injuries and may include examinaion, it should be noted that children are not necessarily examined by a medical praciioner.