Child Maltreatment
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Child Neglect
• Physical neglect – “deliberate withholding of
or failure to provide the necessary and
available resources to the child”
– Physical Environment
– Inadequate shelter, inadequate sleeping
arrangements, unsanitary conditions, structural
hazards, housekeeping problems
– Environmental Hazards
– Fire hazards, substance accessibility and use,
excessive hot water temperature
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Neglect
– Inadequate Care Standards
– Medical/Health Care (Infection present for long time,
treatment not followed, poor dental health)
– Nutrition (undernourished)
– Clothing (unclean clothes, inappropriate clothing for
weather)
– Personal Hygiene (degree of dirtiness, offensive
odor, feces/urine) denuded, cracked, bleeding diaper
rash without signs of care (ammonia burns), lice
– Supervision (multiple dog/cat scratches/bites)
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Neglect
– Developmental Neglect
– Education
– Emotional growth (lack of emotional security,
support & encouragement, emotionally
unavailable, indifferent, rejects child) fear,
FTT, delays, poor social interactions
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Child Neglect
• Attachment Disorders (Abandonment)–
caregiver’s rejection of child and the parental
role
– Fatal or near-fatal abandonment (intent to kill)
– Abandonment with physical needs provided by
others (left with others and not picked up ~2 days
after agreed upon time) includes hospital
– Throwaways
– Parental custody refusal
– Lack of supervision
– Emotional abandonment
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Neglect
• Other issues
– Fetal neglect
– Drugs and alcohol
• Developmental effects
• Long-term effec