Major Case Study: Child Abuse, Intervention, and School Nurse's Role

This case study examines the case of Maisie Smyth, a 7-year-old experiencing potential child abuse and neglect due to parental conflict and withdrawal. The study explores actual and potential problems, such as the child's emotional distress and lack of nutrition, and proposes interventions like family counseling and social skills training. It demonstrates an understanding of child abuse and neglect, defining psychological and physical abuse, and highlighting the detrimental effects on a child's development. The assignment also outlines the crucial role of the school nurse in supporting the child's well-being, including mandatory reporting responsibilities and providing resources. The conclusion emphasizes the effectiveness of interventions in improving the child's emotional, social, and physical health, and the importance of the school nurse in addressing the child's complex needs.

Major case study

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Brief summary of case study.......................................................................................................1
Examining one actual and one potential problem with intervention...........................................1
Providing appropriate rationale for intervention.........................................................................2
Examining the method for success of intervention.....................................................................2
PART 2............................................................................................................................................2
Demonstrating understanding upon child abuse and neglect......................................................2
Outlining the role as a school nurse for the mandatory reporting associated with the child
abuse............................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Child abuse may result in range of emotional effects. The neglect on the part of the parent
which eventually affects the child’s safety, well-being and health. This may result in delay in
psychological as well as physical development of the child. This study will focus on examining
the one actual and one potential problem with intervention related with case study. Furthermore,
the study will highlight upon understanding of child abuse and neglect. Moreover, this study also
significantly outlines the role as a school nurse for the mandatory reporting associated with the
child abuse.
PART 1
Brief summary of case study
The 7 year old Maisie Smyth, has not been bringing lunch to eat. Maisie has been
withdrawn of late and was found asleep under a tree. An appropriate lunchtime disco has been
arranged for the Maisie and two other grade. The Maisie shares that, her parents keep on fighting
and they might break up. Upon asking if she feels safe at home? Maisie replied yes. Further,
Maisie wants the teacher to talk to her parents and ask both of them to stop fighting.
Examining one actual and one potential problem with intervention.
The actual problem associated with the specific case study is the child abuse and neglect
because the parents has been fighting and it tends to have negative impact upon the mental health
of the child.
Crisis intervention is one of the effective program which helps in treating child abuse and
neglect. This is useful in improving the key assistance to the families and children (Hameed,
(2018)).
Family counselling is considered to be another effective intervention which helps in treating
child abuse and neglect.
Therapeutic care is another relevant information which is highly significant in treating the child
abuse and the neglect. It helps in determining the social service to improve the care outcomes.
The key potential problem associated with the specific case study is that, has been
withdrawn of late and has also stopped bringing lunch to the school which has resulted in the
loss of weight in child.
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Family centred care: This intervention approach is useful in building up the strength and
attaining the optimal outcomes. It tends to mainly focus on enhancing the emotional security of
the child.
Social interaction is one of the relevant significant intervention which helps in treating children
who are withdraw of late. This helps in building better social relations.
Social skills training: This is also one of the key relevant intervention which is highly
prominent in treating children who are withdraw of late and helps in improving the social
interaction (Mathews, Bromfield, Walsh & Vimpani, (2015)).
Providing appropriate rationale for intervention.
For the actual problem i.e., child neglect and abuse the family counselling is one of the
best intervention which is useful in treating the child. For the potential problem social skills
training is an effective intervention for the treating children who are withdraw of late and helps
in improving the social interaction.
Examining the method for success of intervention.
The family counselling intervention is useful because it helps in giving relevant and proper
set of guidance to improve the psychological effects. This intervention is highly successful to
improve the physical and emotional development of the child and growth in the child brain
(Scott, & Fraser, (2015)).
Social skills training is useful because it helps in improving the social interaction and is highly
prominent in treating children who are withdraw of late. It helps in building better social
relations and improve the social outcomes.
PART 2
Demonstrating understanding upon child abuse and neglect.
Child abuse is referred to as a psychological maltreatment or neglect of the child by the
caregiver or the parents. However, child abuse may comprise of any failure or act by the parents
which eventually leads to potential or actual harm to the child (Malvaso, Delfabbro & Day,
(2017)). The actual harm to the Child abuse may occur within the home, school, communities,
organisation among which the child interacts. Child abuse have a negative impact on the child
which may have adverse emotional, psychological and physical impact of the child. As per the
world health organisation or child abuse is referred to as all forms of emotional and physical ill
treatment, neglect, sexual abuse, negligent with me, other sort of exploitation eventually leads to
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potential and actual harm of the health of the child. The child abuse in the children result in
potential and actual harm to the child and eventually leads to failure in the child’s emotional,
physical and educational needs of the child. The child abuse prevention and treatment act tends
to define child abuse and neglect as any failure or act on the part of the Caregivers or parents
which eventually leads to emotional and physical harm of the child (Jenkins, Tilbury, Hayes, &
Mazerolle (2018)).
The psychological abuse is mainly referred to as the non-accidental symbolic of verbal and
of the parent or the caregiver of the child which leads to psychological harm and reasonable
potential harm to the child. This eventually leads to social and psychological defects in the
growth and development of the child because of the behaviour of loud yelling, rude attitude, in
attention, coarse, harsh criticism of the parents upon the child. The psychological ill treatment is
one of the most challenging and one of the most prevalent form of the child neglect and
abuse. As per the specific case, Maisie Smyth, has not been bringing lunch to eat. Maisie has
been withdrawn of late and was found asleep under a tree. The parents have refused all the
resources offered and provided for the nutrition. The parents keep of fighting which tends to
have negative impact on the mental and emotional health of the child.
Fighting of the parents and loud yelling and use of abusing language may in turn disrupt
the mental and emotional health of the child (Lines, Hutton & Grant (2020)). Appropriate set of
social skill training is considered to be prevalent which helps in improving the health outcomes
and leads to better social interactions.
Child neglect is considered to be as the failure on the part of the caregiver or the parents are
supposed to act responsibly to provide proper care services to the child. The neglect on the part
of the parent which eventually affects the child’s safety, well-being and health and eventually
maybe threatened to specific harm. Neglect is considered to be as the lack of attention from the
parents and results in lack of attention, nurturing and love. The neglect among the child may
affect the growth and development of the children (Child Abuse and Neglect, 2020). This may
result in delay in psychological as well as physical development of the child which leads to
impaired neuropsychological functions. Child abuse in turn causes severe health issues to the
child and it might have long-term consequences. The child abuse and neglect may result in
increased risk of physical, behavioural mental health problems like withdrawal of late,
depression, anxiety, drug misuse, violence, obesity, etc.
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Child abuse may result in range of emotional effects. The child is ignored or terrorised at
home by the family members or parents. The children who experience neglect and abuse may
experience lack of development, and securities and low self-esteem. They in turn also have
difficulty in experiencing Very set of the society such as social withdrawal, forming relationship
with people, trouble in school, difficulty in building trust. There seems to be high rate of rest
associated with the help behaviours, chronic conditions and short life span.
Outlining the role as a school nurse for the mandatory reporting associated with the child abuse.
The school nurse focuses on supporting student success by providing specific healthcare by
complete intervention and assessment and follow-up for the child within the specific school
setting. Moreover, the school has also focuses on addressing the mental, physical, social and
emotional health of the child and mainly focuses on supporting the achievement of the child
within the learning process (Read, Harper, Tucker & Kennedy, (2018)). The nurses focuses on
effectively recording the mystery of the time. It focuses on collaborating with team and to plan
the appropriate care for the patient. The key role and responsibility of the school has is to
administer treatment and medication for the child to provide best possible care related with child
abuse and neglect. The nurse also focuses on educating the patient associated with management
of child neglect and child abuse. It is very important for the school now to understand the key
problem associated with students and help them provide an environment which helps them
boosting up the growth and development. The health of the student is mainly associated with the
ability of the child to learn. The school nurse focuses on supporting the student in order to
provide healthcare intervention, assessment (Moore & et.al. (2015)). The school nurse also
focuses on effectively addressing the complex medical problems associated with the child to
provide them with the best care and treatment. The key intervention is to provide parent and
caregivers support. This way it is useful in supporting the child and helps in better nurturing and
non-violent parenting. Education and live skill approach is also an affective intervention which is
the useful in treating child abuse and neglect. Enrolling child in better quality education helps in
acquiring appropriate Degree of skills, experience and knowledge which helps in building
resilience and also reducing this factors.
The nurse is considered to be significant because it helps in managing the physical and
mental needs of the child. It is also useful in providing holistic care to the child by encompassing
the cultural, psychosocial, developmental and spiritual need of the individual person.
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Failure to report mandated reports results in criminal or civil penalties. Mandatory reports are the
individual who are responsible for reporting the suspected neglect or abuse associated with the
child. It is considered to be very crucial for the school professionals to effectively understand the
relevance of mandatory reporting as well as the medical, behavioural and other indicators
associated with the child abuse and neglect (Mathews, Bromfield, Walsh & Vimpani, (2015)).
Mandated reporting is considered to be one of the legal requirement for the nurses of the school
to affectively report the occurrence of any abuse associated with the child. As per the specific
case scenario, Maisie keeps coming to school with no lunch and it also has visibly lost
significant weight. Moreover, the parents have refused all the resources offered and provided for
the nutrition. The school nurse must ensure that the relevant set of action has been taken which
leads to higher care results and better outcomes. However, providing appropriate degree of
parent support by school nurses talking to the parents and giving them appropriate counselling
will help in improving the condition of the Maisie.
CONCLUSION
From the conducted study it has been summarized that, the family counselling intervention
is useful because it improves the physical and emotional development of the child and growth in
the child brain. Social skills training is useful because it helps in improving the social interaction
and is highly prominent in treating children who are withdraw of late. Child abuse have a
negative impact on the child which may have adverse emotional, psychological and physical
impact of the child. The psychological abuse is mainly referred to as the non-accidental symbolic
of verbal and of the parent. The school nurse focuses on supporting student success by providing
specific healthcare by complete intervention and assessment and follow-up for the child. The
school nurse also focuses on effectively addressing the complex medical problems associated
with the child
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REFERENCES
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protection recurrence in Australia. Child abuse & neglect, 81, 181-191.
Lines, L. E., Hutton, A., & Grant, J. M. (2020). Navigating and negotiating meanings of child
abuse and neglect: Sociocultural contexts shaping Australian nurses’ perceptions. Health &
Social Care in the Community, 28(3), 941-949.
Malvaso, C. G., Delfabbro, P. H., & Day, A. (2017). The child protection and juvenile justice
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Mathews, B., Bromfield, L., Walsh, K., & Vimpani, G. (2015). Child abuse and neglect: A
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Moore, S. E & et.al. (2015). Burden attributable to child maltreatment in Australia. Child Abuse
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Read, J., Harper, D., Tucker, I., & Kennedy, A. (2018). Do adult mental health services identify
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Scott, D., & Fraser, J. (2015). Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect by health
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Online
Child Abuse and Neglect. 2020. [ONLINE]. Available
through<https://www.helpguide.org/articles/abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect.htm>
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