Child and Adolescent Maltreatment
Child and Adolescent Maltreatment
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are the violence, abuse, growing up in a family with mental health issues, or the influence of drug abuse that some children experience in today's world. Therefore, children in such an environment might develop toxic stress, which might change their brain development, thus affecting how their bodies respond to stress (Counseling, 2022). Also, prolonged exposure to such an environment inflect the child's body with stress hormones, which is dangerous to their health. It might increase their risk of health problems like heart disease, diabetes, or depression.
Even though unaddressed maltreatment in childhood can lead to devastating impacts as they develop, their brain has a great deal of plasticity, meaning they...
Therefore professional counselors working with children and adolescent teenagers should expose children to a healthy and happy environment. Since children's brains are still developing, they should have regular, responsive, and
caring from adults to allow them to thrive well. It will help improve their lifelong wellness,
resilience, and prospect for a successful future and help prevent the need for expensive interventions and treatments later in their lives (Gruhn & Compas, 2020).
Forms of child maltreatment
The Children's Defense Fund report depicted that millions of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds worldwide have been victims of child maltreatment. There are high chances if the society is not mobilized to curb such practices; there are high chances of more children being victims. Besides, there are numerous forms of child maltreatment, but the most...
…career and future lives.
The impact of school and health professionals on child maltreatment reporting
Considering the devastating impacts of maltreatment, the community and professionals must address the issue and equip children with strategies to help them overcome such occurrences. If one witnessed such an occurrence, one needs to report it. Therefore, because teachers spend more time with children, they must be trained and issued the right protocol to use when addressing maltreatment. Also, health professionals should provide social support to the children and their families; by doing so, they will mitigate the stress associated with child maltreatment (Gruhn & Compas, 2020). They can educate children on self-protection programs that might help them prevent maltreatment from occurring repeatedly. Then, creating public awareness to educate the community on the dangers…
