How Child Abuse Effect Person When They Become Adult Mental

Impacts of Child Abuse in Adulthood
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Impacts of Child Abuse in Adulthood
Child abuse normally violates the trust in the relationship between the child and the environment which include parents, caregivers and their close associates. Such betrayal leads to a schema and beliefs. In most cases, children go beyond physical molestation; to include emotional, cognitive, behavioral and mental torture, hence these children have deprived safety, care, security, love, understanding, nurturance, and support. The different negative impacts normally affect their capacity to think, establish as well as sustain proper attachments throughout their lives. Children who survive child abuse have numerous experiences of conflicting relations in their lives. They are normally associated with a lifestyle that is full of chaos and cannot effectively develop adult intimate relationships and attachments. In addition, their behaviors are normally a threat to relationships with others. Consequently, child abuse impacts to adulthood problems such as psychological torture, marital problems, drug abuse, job disappointments, failed relationships, relocations, and financial setbacks coupled with crisis mode of brain functionalities which result to a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness.
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The subject area for the research was supported by the use of secondary data from journals concerning child abuse as well as using primary data collection instruments such as the questionnaire schedule for the survey.
St. Elizabeth Hospital
In as much as childhood abuse results to problems at the adulthood stage, there have been various measures that have been put in place to address such issues. Facilities such as the Saint Elizabeth Hospital have been beneficial to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. The hospital ensures that people with mental illness are intensively caring through the provision of full support and personalized treatment plans to help them in recovery. The facility ensures that is avails high-quality health care for both mental and physical problems equally to all the patients with mental problems. Furthermore, the facility is able to provide mental health examination and evaluation and care for patients committed by the courts. In addition, the facility is a teaching hospital with full-time residential training courses of psychiatry, dentistry, and chaplaincy, psychology coupled with the part-time course for medical students, nursing students, social work, art, and dance therapy. On a separate note, the hospital is a healing environment with a therapeutic building design which has bright, airy living areas with green space of the patient unit as well as enclosed courtyard. St. Elizabeth was opened in 1855 in Southeast Washington D.C as a Federal operated a psychiatric hospital in the U.S.A. the hospital is able to accommodate over 8,000 patients with medical-surgical units, nursing school, and psychiatric residencies.
Surveys conducted in the subject area
Different surveys have indicated that childhood abuses result to adulthood depressions, anxiety disorders, and addictions. For example, a research conducted by Spila, Makara, Kozak and Urbanska (2008) indicates that childhood abuse contributes to depression, personality disorders, addictions and anxiety disorders. In addition, the authors have noted that issues such as eating disorders, sexual disorders as well as suicidal actions in adulthood are as a result of childhood abuses (Spila et al., 2008). In addition, a research conducted by Spila, Makara, Kozak and Urbanska (2008) included 384 subjects who were survivors of childhood abuses. The result indicated that the survivors of the childhood abuses were depressed, had low self-esteem and had problems with their families. Elsewhere, about 76% of adults had given information concerning physical abuse faced by children coupled with neglects and from the results at least one of the children has a psychiatric disorder in his or her lifetime. In addition, about 50% has more than three psychiatric disorder cases (Crawford & Wright, 2007). In addition, adults who have faced abuses at their childhood lives have physical problems and are prone for more of the physical problems compared to those who never received physical abuse at their tender ages. Lastly, other researchers have indicated that childhood sexual abuse has higher rates of homelessness in young adults between 50-70% (Crawford & Wright, 2007).
Childhood abuse results in adulthood violence behaviors. A research conducted by Curtis (1963) indicated that most children who are abused become murders at their adulthood stages of life as well as becoming the perpetrators of violence and other crimes. In addition, other reports on family backgrounds of adolescents who try to kill their parents are precursors of their later to be violent behaviors. Thus, a mode of cyclical violence is experienced by these children during their life stages which culminate first as a result of delinquents and are found to be impaired in their neuropsychiatric. Regarding substance abuse, alcohol abuse and problems in adulthood are associated with childhood abuse. In most cases, runaway children due to domestic violence or due to abuse may venture into the usage of alcohol to escape from the abusive thinking or averse environment. In addition, such children may use alcohol as a way of self-medicating where they strive to gain control of the negative experiences as well as improving their self-esteem and a feeling of loneliness. Lastly, these children use alcohol as a form of coping strategy. However, long-term abuse of alcohol results in an addiction at the adulthood stage of life (Dembo et al., 1992). On the same note, illicit drug use among the adults is associated with the prior addiction to such drugs in their adolescent stages of life. For example, these children at their adolescent stages normally use illicit drugs as a form of psychological escape or as a form of self-medication for controlling negative thoughts as well as for self-esteem and for the reduction of self-isolation. In addition, adulthood temperament is sometimes associated with childhood abuse since such form of abuse is contributing factors to weird behaviors and temperament due to their harsh experiences of violence and abuses.
Elsewhere, childhood abuse leads to an intergenerational cycle of abuse. It is usually believed that children who experience or are abused are more likely to abuse their ...