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IMPACTS OF CHILD ABUSE ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 6

Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and Development

Tasha Smith

Ashford University

LIB495: Capstone - Advanced Research Project

05/18/2017

Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and Development

Proposal

For many years, scholars have sought to ascertain the various effects that ae associated with child abuse during the early and adult stages. One of the aspects which has under constant examination is the way afflictions such as physical abuse influences formative movements. An example of the commonly known psychological stages is called Erickson psychosocial stages. Ideally, the stage denotes that abuse is bound to affect a child’s growth especially as he or she transitions into adulthood. In principle, throughout the paper, the inspection of issues that relate to the psychological well-being of a child’s health is prevalent. These aspects are of the great essence because they help individuals to understand the threat that can be caused by tolerating child abuse in the society.

In the United States, child abuse is one of the aspects that require a compelling attention from the government, the nongovernmental organizations, society, and even individuals. Reports exhibit that nearly six million young people are abused annually. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified the aspect to be one of the serious problems that the United States is facing, and for this reason, a compelling remedy is required. It is perceived that there is a probability that a child who undergoes physical and psychological abuse is prone to abuse his or her children when he or she becomes an adult (Starr & Wolfe, 1991). According to the United States Bureau of Health and Human Services, it is essential for parents and guardians to ensure that children are not abused in the society. Predominantly, this research will utilize the Erickson hypothesis to reveal the effects of child abuse and its prevalence in the society. The results of the effects of early abuse are often experienced when individuals become grownups.

Literature Review

Erikson depicts one of the main stages prompting adulthood as personality versus part disarray. This stage is regularly experienced amid the high school years; in this stage, teenagers encounter an” identity emergency," which is portrayed as an endeavor to characterize who you may be about vocation, religion, sexual personality, et cetera, where you are heading and how you fit into society.

As teenager’s advance through this stage, they start to concentrate in on building up a character. This character union in pre-adulthood gives the main genuine chance to create progression with the past, which means in the present and bearing for the future. Overall, personality union structures the foundation of the ability to do well and the premise of self-acknowledgment and confidence.

The effective determination of character issues furnishes the child with an unmistakable feeling of self, very much characterized individual convictions and values, and a sentiment put inside the group (Calam & Franchi, 1987). The personality versus role stage is regularly a testing stage to rise out of, as self-investigation is often a progressing procedure; nevertheless, making a personality is an essential stride in the accompanying Stage. Erikson's identity organizes new grown-ups will end up in the closeness versus disconnection arrange. In this stage, people search out vital outside connections. It is frequently amid this phase individuals start dating and scanning for long haul relationships.

Further Erickson studies contend the accomplishing closeness is just conceivable when every individual had built up a solid feeling of character independently. In Erikson's hypothesis of closeness, he contends that it is imperative that a man has a solid comprehension and acknowledgment of their identity before going into a long haul relationship inside the closeness phase of their life (Petersen, Joseph & Feit, 2014). Studies propose that accomplishing closeness is a troublesome errand for most grown-ups, and considerably more troublesome for the individuals who have not legitimately dealt with the emergencies from past stages.

As expressed before, each stage is a building obstruct to the following arrangement of difficulties; therefore, the unsuccessful determination in the past prompts an insecure structure for future stages Erikson's first phase of trust versus doubt assumes a noteworthy part in the closeness organize. His idea of trust versus doubt rotates around regardless of whether newborn children wind up noticeably ready to depend on other individuals to be receptive to their particular needs. To build up a feeling of trust, babies must have the capacity to rely on their

essential guardians to encourage them, remember their distress, come when called, and give back their grins and prattles

However, if parental figures abuse their child through disregard, or neglect to react reliably to the requirements of their tyke, the tyke will probably doubt others later on. Research contends that people who have encountered disregard as a tyke have a tendency to create doubt in their connections as grown-ups. While it is normal for people to determine emergencies in the closeness versus segregation organize, others will spend whatever remains of their lives looking for closeness. Those people who did not effectively adapt to the emergencies in past stages may end up secluding all through this stage. Erikson proposes that the absence of closeness may originate from doubt, sentiments of mediocrity, part disarray or the lacking of character.

References

Calam, R. & Franchi, C. (1987). Child abuse and its consequences : observational approaches. Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York: Cambridge University Press.

Petersen, A., Joseph, J. & Feit, M. (2014). New directions in child abuse and neglect research. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press.

Starr, R. & Wolfe, D. (1991). The Effects of child abuse and neglect : issues and research. London New York: Guilford.