Lasting effects of child abuse

Tatijana Jones

APUS

February 20, 2022

· Topic: My chosen topic is the: Does child abuse or neglect leave a lasting effect on a child and does it carry on to adulthood

· Sexual abuse

Physical abuse

· Scope and value:

· What is the scope of the topic and your research? The value of my topic is to determine if childhood traumas and events affect people once they become teenagers and later on adults.

· What value does it bring to your life? To your professional life? Understanding how children perceive traumas as a child will help to understand how they will interpret what happened to them as they get older and have a better understanding of the wrongness that was done.

· Communication medium:

· How are you going to communicate your project: I will use power point presentation to present my project which will consist of researched information on the lasting affects of abuse on a children.

· How will you make your presentation different and unique? My presentation will consist of graphics and pictures along with peer reviewed and scholarly articles.

· Critical thinking questions:

· Pose different questions that will help you with your research and investigate your topic in more depth. My focus question would be: When abused as a child are children able to understand what they went through and how it affect their future.

· Post critical questions that will push you to improve. At what age should parents start to teach their children about abuse and encouraging them to tell when someone has hurt or attempted to hurt them.

· Subtopics (optional). Does one form of abuse (physical, sexual) cause more harm than the other.

As a child you look for you parents to protect you from any form of abuse. Sometimes the parents are the ones that is causing the abuse which makes it harder for the children to understand that abuse is wrong in any form no matter who the abuse is coming from. Understanding how to recognize different forms of abuse and neglect isn’t always as easy as just finding a bruise or two but sometimes recognizes the signs can help to know if a child is going through something. I have children of my own and this is the biggest reason for my topic choice. Another reason is wanting to know how to over come the rage and anger from being abused a child myself by a close family member.