Child Abuse: Annotated Bibliography

Newton, C. J. (n.d.). Child Abuse: An Overview. In Find Counseling . Retrieved March 12, 2015.

Child abuse forces children into a position of always being scared and having to “hide the secret”. This prevents children form having healthy relationships

Because the ability to form healthy social relationships is learned (nurture), abused children are deprived from this ability as well as many other necessary skills needed to navigate the social world

The concept of relationships are distorted and this leads to destructive and problematic relationships in the persons personal life and even on the job

Child abuse puts a restraint on children

A child will lose his/her sense of curiosity if he/she fears doing anything new because of the chance of

it leading to a violent attack or because of an abusive parent that keeps tight control over them. This results in the child never being able to reach his/her potential intellectual goal
Child abuse also puts physical stress on the victim
Multiple exposure to violence and trauma cause an automatic and endocrine hyperarousal (the victim gets stressed out)
A person who experiences this hyperarousal multiple times will result in having permanent physiological changes (difficulties in attention and concentration, immune suppression which leads to a higher risk for colds and more severe illnesses, a craving for self-injury, emotionally numb)