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) in...