Safeguarding in Healthcare and Abuse Assignment
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Running head: SAFEGUARDING IN HEALTH CARE AND ABUSESafeguarding in health care and abuse Name of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
2SAFEGUARDING IN HEALTH CARE AND ABUSEIntroduction: There are a varied range of external and internal factors in the society that affect the overallhealth and wellbeing of the individuals belonging to a societal community. However, amongthese range of different factors, there a few that demand immediate attention of the concernedauthorities. Abuse and its consequences can be considered one of those factors that influence thehealth and wellbeing of a community affectively. It has to be understood that abuse does not justaffect the victim physically; the lingering effect of the abuse is ever-present in the psych of thevictim for years to come (Ecclestone and Goodley 2012). As mentioned above, there are various kinds of abuse, and each one of them has had adifferential yet significant impact on the health and wellbeing of the community as well as themembers of the said community. Apart from physical abuse another very important kind ofabuse is the emotional kind, which has a very similar impact on the physical and mental healthand wellbeing of the victim if not more (Manthorpe and Stevens 2015). This assignment willfocus on the different aspects associated with emotional abuse on older men and women, takingthe help of a case study.Task 1A: Question 1: In the case study selected for this assignment, an 82 year old woman named Bridget had beenliving alone in her own cottage and had been suffering with alcoholism. Along with that thesubjective data from the case study also indicates at the extreme fall risk for Bridget and the factthat she had been frequently admitted to the hospital due to multiple occurrences of fall and
3SAFEGUARDING IN HEALTH CARE AND ABUSEalcohol problems. However, another alarming fact that has to be highlighted in this context thatBridget had a tenant named Mr. Y, who rented the lower floor of her cottage. Now one of the keyconcerns with this case study is the fact that Bridget had been suffering with extreme emotionalabuse at the hands of Mr Y. Now a few essential factors regarding Mr Y that needs to beaccounted for when discussing the emotional abuse that Bridget underwent, is the fact that Mr Yhad been volatile throughout in his behaviour and has interrupted with the health care procedurefor Bridget as well post her fall and alcoholism concern (Coppock and McGovern 2014). Emotional abuse can be defined as the phenomenon of the abuse victim being subjected orexposed to psychological trauma due to actions or behaviours that are potentially psychologicallyharmful. It has to be mentioned in this context that the implications for emotional abuse is vast inthis society, one contributing factor to that may be the fact that the signs of physical abuse ismuch more conspicuous in the society, where as the effects of mental abuse is not very clearlyrecognized. Another very important factor can be the fact that the emotional abuse victims oftenconsider themselves responsible for the abuse they go through, restricting the chances of theabuse becoming reported further. When discussing the factors that r responsible behind thechances of individuals like Bridget getting controlled and abused, is this self loathing or lack ofself worth (Khan et al., 2016).Elaborating more on the risk factors that facilitate instances of such emotional abuse includethe implications of social isolation and loneliness. It has to be understood that, as per the casestudy, Bridget had been living alone in a house, and with her health related complications likemultiple injurious falls and alcoholism, she had no one to care for her or provide mental support.Hence, the increased loneliness and hopelessness might have been another factor that contributedto Bridget being so easily drawn to the controlling and persuading nature of Mr. Y. Lastly it
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