Causes of Child abuse
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Alcohol-related disorder:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Numerous biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors appear to be involved in alcohol addiction. An offspring of one parent with alcohol-related disorder is seven to eight times more likely to become an alcoholic than is a peer without such a parent. Biological factors may include genetic or biochemical abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, endocrine imbalances, and allergic responses.
Psychological factors may include the urge to drink alcohol to reduce anxiety or symptoms of mental illness; the desire to avoid responsibility in familial, social, and work relationships; and the need to bolster self-esteem.
Sociocultural factors include the availability of alcoholic beverages, group or peer pressure, an excessively stressful lifestyle, and social attitudes that approve of frequent drinking.
More than 15% of American adults have a problem with alcohol use, and about 5% to 10% of male and 3% to 5% of female drinkers are alcohol dependent, accounting for about 12.5 million people. Alcohol-related disorder cuts across all social and economic groups, involves both sexes, and occurs at all stages of the life cycle, beginning as early as elementary school.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Substance abuse and induced disorders:
Causes
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Psychoactive drug abuse commonly results from a combination of low self-esteem, peer pressure, inadequate coping skills, and curiosity. Most people who are predisposed to drug abuse have few mental or emotional resources against stress, an overdependence on others, and a low tolerance for frustration. Taking the drug gives them pleasure by relieving tension, abolishing loneliness, allowing them to achieve a temporarily peaceful or euphoric state, or simply relieving boredom.
Drug dependence may follow experimentation with drugs in response to peer pressure. It also may follow the use of drugs to relieve physical pain, but this is uncommon.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Sexual abuse is an important diagnosis to confirm for both the child and family so that appropriate treatment can begin. Remember though that some physical findings that may be suggestive of abuse, may not be definitive:
Nonabusive Causes of Irritation
(Avoiding Common Pediatric Errors)
• Vulvovaginitis (due to chemical irritation, poor perineal hygiene or aeration, nonabusive frictional trauma, and contact dermatitis or itching and
scratching due to pinworms or fomites)
• Urethral prolapse
• Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus
• Straddle injuries
• Foreign bodies
• Anal fissures/anal tags (often associated with constipation).
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Source: Avoiding Common Pediatric Errors, 2008
Child Abuse, Physical:
Child Abuse, Physical - etiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
Multifactorial:
- Includes societal, familial, and individual factors
- Associated with poverty, family stress, family isolation
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
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