(Minister of states 2010) Safeguarding Vulnerable adult is everyone’s business. It depends on people: being aware of risks of abuse and neglect, that vulnerable adult can face, knowing what help is available, understanding their responsibilities, working together to report and investigate concerns, working together to prevent abuse and neglect Protection is a central part of safeguarding and promoting welfare. It is a reactive process, by protecting an individual identified as either suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm because of abuse or neglect. The Social Services recognized Sherin Antonita Safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults: (P1) significant
This Booklet contains: * Definition of abuse and types of abuse * Signs and symptoms of the different types of abuse. * Responding, Reporting and Recording Abuse. * How to ensure evidence of abuse is kept safe. * National policies in place that set out requirements for safeguarding individuals. * Identification of local and organisational systems for safeguarding and the roles of different agencies and professionals that are involved in safeguarding individuals.
If that person is also an adult at risk they must receive support and their needs must be addressed. • Staff will understand their role and responsibilities in regard to this policy and procedures. • Every effort should be made to ensure that adults at risk are afforded appropriate protection under the law. • Organisations will have their own internal operational procedures which relate to these multi-agency Safeguarding Adults policy and procedures, including complaints, and in respect of support to staff who raise concerns (‘whistleblowing’) to comply with the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. • Organisations will ensure that all staff and volunteers are familiar with policies relating to Safeguarding Adults, know how to recognise abuse and how to report and respond to it.
They have to know how when to report the cases, is there legitimate reason to believe that the client will do or has done harm to someone, or if they are talking out of frustration and anger. These dilemmas were evident in the video, as there were different cases that dealt with child abuse, confidentiality of a client’s file that had to be disclosed, and even cultural differences that caused some issues with the law. Ensuring the safety of the clients, and everyone else is a major responsibility that counselors and therapist deal with, while ensuring that they are following every rule and regulation set by their state to ensure that they are protected as well. Keywords: confidentiality, duty to warn, ethical, duty to protect, abuse, laws Ethical Vignette in Counseling and Therapy There are many cases that deal with confidentiality, child abuse, duty to warn, duty to protect, and duty to safeguard. The video detailed a few different cases that dealt with a nurse who did not report bruises that were on a little boy who was in the emergency room, and four days later, the boy was back in the emergency room and died.
HSC 024 1.1 Abuse is the improper usage or treatment for a bad purpose, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical abuse • Sexual abuse • Emotional or psychological abuse • Financial abuse • Institutional abuse • Self-neglect • Neglect by others. Physical abuse: It can be described as hitting, burning or scalding, suffocating, force feeding, throwing. Sexual abuse: forcing an individual to take part in sexual activity or behave in sexually inappropriate ways, raping, watching sexual activities on the internet. Emotional abuse: bullying, invoking threats or fear, devaluing individual self-esteem, verbal abuse and swearing, imposing inappropriate expectations, conveying feelings of worthlessness, exploitation.
HSC024 - Evidence Unit 5 – Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care. 1.1 Define the following types of abuse: * Physical abuse * Sexual abuse * Emotional/psychological abuse * Financial abuse * Institutional abuse * Self neglect * Neglect by others Physical abuse: hitting, slapping, kicking. Sexual abuse: unwanted advances, indecent exposure, harassment. Emotional/psychological abuse: intimidation, blaming. Financial abuse: misappropriation of monies, not giving correct change.
.1. Know how to recognise signs of abuse 1.1. Define the following types of abuse: • Physical Abuse • Sexual Abuse • Emotional / Psychological Abuse • Financial Abuse • Institutional Abuse • Self Neglect • Neglect By others Answer: Physical Abuse; is abuse involving contact intended to cause feeling of intimidation, injury or other physical suffering bodily harm. Sexual Abuse; also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behaviour by one person upon another. Emotional /Psychological Abuse; is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another behaviour that may result in psychological trauma including anxiety, chronic depression.
1.1 Know the main types of abuse. These are the main types of abuse with examples of what they mean: Physical – Hitting, slapping, pushing or kicking, forcing people to eat or take medication, leaving people to sit in urine or faeces. Sexual – Unwanted advances, indecent exposure or harassment, rough washing or touching of the genital area, rape, being forced to watch or participate in sexual acts. Emotional / psychological – Intimidation, not being included, being ignored, threats, bullying, humiliating and blaming. These include discrimination that relates to age, race,
Booklet about safeguarding: Physical Abuse, is a form of abuse which causes physical harm to an individual. This can be biting, burning, force feeding, hitting, scalding, suffocating, shaking and throwing. Sexual Abuse, is when consent is not given to sexual activity, this can be sexual penetration to any part of the body, inappropriate touching, making sexual related comments which provide sexual gratification for the abuser and being exposed to pornographic material. Emotional Abuse, is when a person is the subject of emotional distress, this can be bullying, threats of fear, shouting, swearing, devaluing a persons self- esteem or withdrawing of affection. Financial Abuse, is the abuse of a person's money matters, this can be from stealing money, tricking a person into spending money, with holding money from a person, or making decisions in the abusers interest.
Unit 205 Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care. Outcome 2 know how to respond to suspected or alleged abuse. 1. Explain the action to take when there are suspicions that an individual is being abused. Read the polices and procedures and comply with them, make sure you tell a senior member of staff, then they can take the next step and get to the route of the situation.