Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and Development Presented by Tasha Smith Child abuse requires great attention from all relevant sectors and the society at large Approximately six million individuals are victims of abuse every year According to CDC, child abuse is one daunting task that the U.S faces and there is dire need for immediate intervention Children who are victims of physical and psychological abuse are prone to abuse their own children in the future when they are adults. The United States Bureau of Health and Human Services declares it essential for parents and guardians to ensure that children are not abused in the society. INTRODUCTION Child abuse is a very regular occurrence in the United States with more than six million kids influenced each year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). Child abuse is detrimental to the individuals health especially if it is long-term Among the abused kids 30% of them end up abusing their own children. This study will seek to find the impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and Development. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM To determine the Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and Development OBJECTIVE How do child abuses influence growth and development of a child? To what extent do child abuses affect the growth and development of a child? Do child abuse influence or determine a person’s behavior at adulthood? Is there a likelihood of a child who has been abused to become abusive at adulthood? How do the abused children get along with other children? RESEARCH QUESTIONS. Personality and disarray are among the main factors that prompt adulthood This stage is regularly experienced amid the high school years where teenagers encounter an” identity emergency", that is portrayed as an endeavor to characterize who they may be (e.g., vocation, religion, sexual personality, et cetera) As they advance through this stage, they start to concentrate on building up a character. 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. 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. LITERATURE REVIEW Abuse can affect the ability to and outperforming the emergencies displayed in the closeness versus disconnection arrange. Transient impacts are fairly debated among the expert group and there is a general assertion that it has long haul impacts. However there is a solid connection amongst abuse and the mental improvement. It is normal for people who have been abused to look for advise in order to adapt to the injury and get better personal satisfaction. Advocates needs to have the capacity to comprehend the impacts of abuse and have a set up learning base on the best way to help those .

1. Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and Development
Presented by
Tasha Smith
Child abuse requires great attention from all relevant sectors
and the society at large
Approximately six million individuals are victims of abuse
every year
According to CDC, child abuse is one daunting task that the U.S
faces and there is dire need for immediate intervention
Children who are victims of physical and psychological abuse
are prone to abuse their own children in the future when they
are adults.
The United States Bureau of Health and Human Services
declares it essential for parents and guardians to ensure that
children are not abused in the society.
INTRODUCTION
Child abuse is a very regular occurrence in the United States

2. with more than six million kids influenced each year (Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014).
Child abuse is detrimental to the individuals health especially if
it is long-term
Among the abused kids 30% of them end up abusing their own
children.
This study will seek to find the impacts of Child Abuse on
Growth and Development.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
To determine the Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and
Development
OBJECTIVE
How do child abuses influence growth and development of a
child?
To what extent do child abuses affect the growth and
development of a child?
Do child abuse influence or determine a person’s behavior at
adulthood?
Is there a likelihood of a child who has been abused to become
abusive at adulthood?
How do the abused children get along with other children?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS.

3. Personality and disarray are among the main factors that prompt
adulthood
This stage is regularly experienced amid the high school years
where teenagers encounter an” identity emergency", that is
portrayed as an endeavor to characterize who they may be (e.g.,
vocation, religion, sexual personality, et cetera)
As they advance through this stage, they start to concentrate on
building up a character.
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.
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.
LITERATURE REVIEW

4. Abuse can affect the ability to and outperforming the
emergencies displayed in the closeness versus disconnection
arrange.
Transient impacts are fairly debated among the expert group and
there is a general assertion that it has long haul impacts.
However there is a solid connection amongst abuse and the
mental improvement.
It is normal for people who have been abused to look for advise
in order to adapt to the injury and get better personal
satisfaction.
Advocates needs to have the capacity to comprehend the
impacts of abuse and have a set up learning base on the best
way to help those looking for direction.
It is also essential for experts to continuously research on child
abuse in order o find better coping and intervention strategies
for the victims.
CONCLUSION
Running head: IMPACTS OF CHILD ABUSE ON GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT

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IMPACTS OF CHILD ABUSE ON GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
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Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and Development
Tasha Smith
Ashford University
LIB495: Capstone - Advanced Research Project
05/18/2017
Introduction
In the United States, child abuse is one of the aspects that
require a compelling attention from the government, the non-
governmental 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.
Statement of the Problem
The impacts of child abuse from early stages through adulthood
have been examined for many years. Child abuse is a very
regular practice in the United States with more than six million
kids influenced each year (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention [CDC], 2014). It is thought to be a serious issue,
particularly as the cycle of abuse proceeds since approximately

6. 30% of abusing and disregarded kids will later abuse their own
kids (U.S. Bureau of Health and Human Services [HSS], 2013).
The effects of abuse on the child using Erikson's hypothesis of
psychosocial improvement, the resulting impacts of the abuse
on developing grown-ups, and treatment systems, which have
turned out to be of help when working with customers who have
experienced childhood abuse. It has got several effects on the
development and the growth of children later in life (Kelley,
Bravo, Braitman, Lawless, & Lawrence, 2016). It is due to this
situation that this study will seek to find the impacts of Child
Abuse on Growth and Development.
Objective of the study:
To determine the Impacts of Child Abuse on Growth and
Development
Research Questions.
1) How do child abuses influence growth and development of a
child?
2) To what extent do child abuses affect the growth and
development of a child?
3) Do child abuse influence or determine a person’s behavior at
adulthood?
4) Is there a likelihood of a child who has been abused to
become abusive at adulthood?
5) How do the abused children get along with other children?
Literature review
Erikson depicts one of the main stages prompting adulthood as
personality versus part disarray (Lewis, McElroy, Harlaar, &
Runyan, 2016). 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 (e.g., vocation, religion, sexual
personality, et cetera), where you are heading and how you fit

7. into society. As teenagers advance through this stage, they start
to concentrate 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 (Mrazek, & Kempe, 2014). All things
considered, personality union structures the foundation of the
ability to do well and the premise of self-acknowledgment and
confidence (Herrenkohl, Hong, Klika, Herrenkohl, & Russo,
2013). 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 (Evans, & Whipple, 2013). The personality
versus role stage is regularly a testing stage to rise up out of, as
self-investigation is oftentimes a progressing procedure; be that
as it may, making a personality is an essential stride in the
accompanying Stage. Taking after Erikson's Identity organize,
new grown-ups will end up in the closeness versus
disconnection arrange (Young, & Wisdom, 2014). In this stage,
people search out vital outside connections. It is frequently
amid this phase individuals start dating and scanning for long
haul relationships. The past stage requiring a genuine
personality of self is apparently extremely essential in
effectively beating the emergency in the closeness versus
detachment organize as Young, & Wisdom, (2014), contends 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. Evans, &
Whipple, (2013) proposes 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

8. of difficulties; therefore, 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
own 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, in the event that
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. Wolfe, (1999), 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. Also, individuals who embrace a way of life of
confinement show a trouble shaping associations with others,
which prompts more noteworthy sentiments of dejection. The
prevention of effectively advancing through the closeness
versus disconnection stage can be realized through a few unique
factors (Anda, Felitti, Bremner, Walker, Whitfield, Perry, &
Giles, 2006).
A large number of these factors happen all through early
formative stages which keep on affecting people as they
progress into adulthood; an assortment of misuse for example,
verbal, mental, and sexual has been demonstrated to contrarily
influence the course of kids' life responses. In particular, the
accompanying areas talk about the effect of abuse on casualties
as they adapt to the past abuse and shape connections, and in

9. addition the connection amongst abuse and emotional well-
being concerns in adulthood. diverse in this perspective, and it
is essential to pick up trust with the customer through
appropriate Micro skills ( i.e. reflecting feelings that a customer
is feeling, monitoring multicultural contrasts, and giving
unqualified positive respect) (Anda et al.,2006)
As the point of adolescence, abuse is frequently troublesome for
the customer to examine, it is essential that we build up a
trusting relationship earlier through individually focused
methods before executing future procedures as to not surge the
customer through the procedure.
Lately, there has been a surge of research into early mental
health. As of late as the 1980s, numerous experts imagined that
when infants are conceived, the structure of their brains was at
that point hereditarily decided. The part of the experience on
the creating cerebrum structure was overlooked, just like the
dynamic part of children in their own particular mental health
through communication with their condition (Pollak, Cicchetti,
Hornung, & Reed, 2000). While a significant part of the
exploration looking at cerebrum working has been finished with
creatures, new advancements are empowering more non-
intrusive research to be finished with people. Despite the fact
that there is still much to learn, we now discover considerably
more about the mental health and functioning.
One region that has been accepting expanding research
consideration includes the impacts of abuse and disregard on the
creating cerebrum amid outset and early adolescence. Quite a
bit of this exploration is giving organic clarifications to what
experts have been depicting in mental, passionate, and
behavioral terms. We are starting to see the logical "proof" of
changed cerebrum working therefore of early abuse and
disregard. This rising sort of learning has numerous
ramifications for avoidance and treatment of child abuse and
neglect. In expansion to fortifying or disposing of existing

10. neurotransmitters, analysts speculate that a few
neurotransmitters might be recently created because of a kind of
ecological conditions (Wolfe, 1999). It is through these
procedures of making, fortifying, and disposing of neural
connections that our brains adjust each of us to our exceptional
condition. The capacity to adjust to our condition is a piece of
ordinary improvement. Childs experiencing childhood in cool
atmospheres or country homesteads or expensive kin bunches
figure out how to work in those conditions. Be that as it may,
paying little heed to the general condition, all child require
incitement and nurturance for sound advancement. In the event
that these are missing—if a kid's overseers are impassive or
unfriendly—the child's mental health might be disabled. Since
the cerebrum adjusts to its condition, it will adjust to a negative
situation similarly as promptly as it will adjust to a positive
domain. Researchers trust that amid these years there might be
"delicate periods" for the development of specific abilities
(Evans, & Whipple, 2013).
Since neural connections are being framed at such an extreme
pace amid this time, the open doors for learning are practically
boundless. Be that as it may, as the way toward pruning
synapses begins to increment, particularly after age 3, these
open doors start to diminish (Kelley, Bravo, Braitman, Lawless,
& Lawrence, 2016). On the off chance that specific
neurotransmitters and neuronal ways are not more than once
enacted, they might be disposed of, and the capacities they
guaranteed might be reduced. For instance, all newborn children
have the limit, to be sure the hereditary predisposition, to frame
solid connections to their essential parental figures. Be that as it
may, if a child's parental figures are inert or undermining, and
the connection procedure is upset, the tyke's capacity to frame
any sound connections amid his or her life might be weakened
(Kelley et al., 2016). In spite of the fact that an initial couple of
years might be the "prime time" for learning, child and grown-
ups can learn sometime down the road, yet it is more
troublesome. This is particularly valid if a child tyke was

11. denied of certain incitement, which brought about the pruning
of neurotransmitters and the loss of neuronal pathways. The
"sorting out structure" for child' improvement depends on the
making of "recollections." When rehashed encounters fortify a
neuronal pathway, the pathway progresses toward becoming
"sharpened," and, eventually, it turns into a memory.
Recollections are a permanent impression of the world (Kelley
et al., 2016); they are the path in which the mind stores data for
simple recovery.
There are distinctive sorts of recollections, for example, engine,
intellectual, and enthusiastic memories. Recollections help us to
explore our reality without having to truly consider it (Perry,
1999). Kids figure out how to put one foot before the other to
walk. They learn words to communicate. What's more, they
discover that a grin more often than not gets a grin return.
Eventually, they no longer need to ponder these procedures—
their brains deal with these encounters with little exertion in
light of the fact that the recollections that have been made
permit for a smooth, productive stream of data. The production
of recollections is a piece of our adaptation to our condition.
Our brains endeavor to comprehend our general surroundings
and from our communications with that world in a way that
advances our survival and, ideally, our development. In any
case, if the early condition is injurious or careless, our brains
will make recollections of these encounters that may
antagonistically share our perspective of the world for the
duration of our life (Young, & Wisdom, 2014).
Conclusion
Child abuse is obviously adverse on the creating kind;
particularly, abuse can affect effectively adapting to and
outperforming the emergencies displayed in the closeness
versus disconnection arrange. While the transient impacts are
fairly debated among the expert group, there is a general
assertion that child abuse has long haul impacts. Unmistakably

12. there is a solid connection amongst abuse and the mental
improvement. It is normal for people who have been abused to
look for advising with endeavors to adapt to the injury and get
better personal satisfaction. Advocates in the field ought to
have the capacity to comprehend the impacts of abuse and have
a set up learning base on the best way to help those looking for
direction. It is additionally imperative for directing experts to
keep on educating themselves on abuse, as it is a liquid learn
about which regardless we have considerably more to learn.
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