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What is Anger?

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an emotional response to the perception of frustration of desires, threat to one’s neds, or challenges.

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What is aggression?

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is harsh physical or verbal action that reflects rage, hostility, and potential for physical or verbal destructiveness.

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Anger and Aggression:

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are the last two stages of a response that begins with feelings of vulnerability followed by uneasiness.

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General Assessment:

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-identify anxiety before it escalates to anger and aggression
-expressions of anxiety and anger look quite similar— increased rate and volume of speech, increased demands, irritability, frowning, redness of face, pacing twisting hands, or clenching and unclenching of fist.
should include taking an accurate history of -the patient’s background, usual coping skills, and perception of the issue.

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self assessment:

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how we intervene safely depends on our own self-awareness.

  • nursing responses to angry patients can escalate along a continuum similar to that of patients.
  • the more a nursing intervention is prompted by emotion, the less likely it is to be therapeutic.
  • nurses’ responses reflect norms from their families or origin, personal issues, and situational events.
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What techniques beside self-assessment could be used?

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deep breathing
muscle relaxation
empathetic interpretation of patient’ distress
review of intervention strategies can be helpful

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Social Isolation

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family members keep to self
no invitations to the home
no sharing of information or friends
abusers may threaten if they tell
tell them that parent, siblings, or pets will die.
child will keep secret due to fear.
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Abuse of Power and COntrol

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abusive family member in position of power over the victim.
economic and social as well as physical power
onl one who can make decisions about money or time spent outside the home.
any indication, real, or imagined, of the victim having been disobedient or trying to be independent leads to violence.

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Substance Abuse

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Alcohol is frequently associated with family violence.

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Transmission process

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patterns of violence from one generation to another –role modeling–social learning

  • learned patten of behavior
  • children who see violence between their parents learn violence is a way to solve conflicts
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Cultural factors:

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immigrant women are more at risk to be in abusive home.

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The abusive person is more likely to what?

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use drugs or alcohol.
Alcohol lowers their inhibitation–make the violent behavior more intense and frequent
major factor in rape cases and sexual assault.

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Family structure for conditions for Violence:

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perpetrator (abuser)
vulnerable person
crisis situation.

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The perpertrator:

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lacks role models and did not learn problem solving skills
-cares only about their own needs
-dissatisfied with life
-low selfesteem
witnessed family violence/experienced it
poor social skills/no support from outside marriage
-poor impulse control
substance abuser
emotionally immature— needy, irrational, jealous, possessive

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Vulnerable person

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the one in the family that is abused–age or situation make vulnerable (children, women, elderly, mentally ill or physically challenged person or child

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crisis situation

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stressful event–something that taxes their coping skills.
financial stress
job stress (no job)
marital problems (soldier’s families, away from home, increased stress on remaining parent.

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Risk factors for violence:

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pregnancy
single
drugs
no support
finances
elderly
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types of abuse:

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physical 
sexual
emotional/psychological
neglect
economic
financial
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Coping mechanisms of the abusers:

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projection
displacement
passive aggressive
denial

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Projection

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the world is unfair
blame someone else for their difficulties
“My boyfriend made me drink.”

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Displacement

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Discharge our feelings o a less threatening object

Transferred to someone other than who they are angry at.

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Passive Aggressive:

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underminers
deny they are angry but deep down they really are
afraid of rejection or punishment
passive

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Denial

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unconscious behavior

an alcoholic who says he can control his drinking–doesnt want to see or face the problem.

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physical violence

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battering and physical endangerment

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sexual violence

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any sexual approach or act, explicit or implicit, toward a child.
the sexual abuse of adults is usually catergorized as sexual assault or rape

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emotional violence

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infliction of mental anguish

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neglect

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physical, developmental, or educational

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economic maltreatment

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using another’s recources without permission for one’s own personal gain

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tension building stage:

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minor incidents (pushing or verbal abuse)

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acute battering stage:

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perpetrator releases built up tension by beating a vulnerable person

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honeymoon stage

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perpetrator feels remorse and acts in kindly, loving ways by apologizing or bringing gifts

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tension building state:

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abuse recurs and cycle begins again.

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Abusers usually…

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grow up learning that violence is normal
-works out bad feelings with violence
-abuses alcohol and drugs
traditional ideas about what a man/woman should be
-jealous of other relationships
-access to guns, knives, and other lethal instruments
-expects the wife to follow orders/advice
-extreme highs and lows
-has bad temper
-treats the wife roughly.

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What are secondary effects of violence?

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anxiety
depression
suicide
*can last a life time.

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what are the four stages of abuse?

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tension building stage
acute battering stage
honey moon stage
tension building stage

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Child abuse:

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* the intentional injury of a child*
all socioeconomical levels
mandated to report
most common form "neglect"
failure to provide food, clothes, shelter, supervision
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special parent:

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history of abuse as a child, lacking self esteem, lack of parenting skills, poor impusle control

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special child:

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handicapped, chronically ill, hyperactive, or have special meaning attached to the child

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stressful situation

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parental stress or crisis situation frequently precipitates battering. social isolation and fewer supportive type relationships

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warning signs of abuse:

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physical evidence- injuries including prior ones
conflicting stories from parents/others
blaming of siblings
injury inconsistent with history
inappropriate parental concern for the degree of injury–exaggerated or unemotional or mad at the child for getting hurt.
refusal to sign in for additional/necessary treatment
repeated emergency department visits
delay in seeking treatment–coming to the emergency department a long time after incident

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inappropriate response of child

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fear
apprehension
pain response
regression/habitual behaviors
sleep problems
fear of being touched
acting out in class
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Shaken baby syndrome

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Head trauma
retinal hemorrhage
**SBS

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Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

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caused by parent or fabricated illness
not easily explained phsiologically
occurs while alone with parent
often medicaly sophisticated

  • The mother seeks attention by making the child sick or appear to be sick.
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Munchausen’s Syndrome looks like:

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chronic poisoning of the child
suffocating the child
put blood feces in the child’s urine to look like an infection
contaminaton of food requirng IV fluids
give emetics to cause vomiting
give cathartics to cause diarrhea
claim sexual abuse against the other parent–“child’s protector”

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Munchausen’s syndrome…

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symptoms improve in the hspital and worsen at home.
-blood in lab specimens do not match the patients
-parent is too enthusiastic; too helpful
-pay careful attention to the history of the illness and how the parent and child interact
can aslo be nurses..

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When working with abusive situations with children;

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be non confronting and non threatening as possible
ask how the parents discipline
try to find out as much as you can

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Misdiagnosis: Don’t confuse or misdiagnose other conditions with abuse.
What conditions are easily misdiagnosed?

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hemophillia/bleeding disorders
SIDS
osteogenesis
mongolian spots
coining
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symptoms of sexual abuse:

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difficulty walking/sitting
ton,stained,bloody underwear
pain, itching of genitals
STIs and or recurrent UTI
unwillingness to change clothes or participate in gym activites
bruises, bleeding in genital or rectal area
poor peer relations
exvessive interest in sexual matters-masturbation
more advanced knowledge than would be expected for thier age

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sexual abuse in children

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bedwetting 
frequent crying
excessive bathing
avoidance of family/peers
promiscuity
exvessive masturbation
regressive behaviors
poor school performance
drug/alcohol abuse
suicide attempts
runaways
self mutilation
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Typical abuser:

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most people abused know the abuser.

it is often a parent or family member.

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child neglect:

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failure to provide for the basic needs as physical emotional and educational needs.

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Documentation

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chart objectively.
location, size, shape, and color of injury
distinguish characteristics. (shape of hand, fingers, objects)
body outline/body map–draw it

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What is the most important criteria upon which to base the decision to report suspected abuse?

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look for incompatibility between the history and the injury

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What is battering?

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coercive behavior used to gain power and control over another.

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Stages of Battering***

KNOW

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phase 1: tension building
phase 2: event/acute battering/violent behavior
pase 3: calm/honeymoon/remorse/contrition

56
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The acronym “SAFE:

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s–stress safety
a–are you afraid; is anyone abusing you?
f–family friends siblings parents aware? could you tell them and get support?
e– emergency plan

57
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Check list for leaving an abuser:

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ID
personal papers
funds
keys
communication
medications 
coping (keepsakes)
58
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3 basic catergories for elder abuse:

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domestic
institutional
self-neglect/self abuse

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Forms of elder abuse:

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physical 
sexual
emotional
neglect--most common
abandonment
financial/material
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Rape:

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rape is not sexually motivated. the desire is to have power, control, and humiliate th victim. It has NOTHING to do with sex.

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Identified risk:

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age–all ages
race–most are within the race
sex– most are female, but males are usually younger victimized by older males
occupation–most are students or women who work alone.

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classifcations of rapist:

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power
anger
sadistic

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power rapist:

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compensates for feelings of inadequacy and incompetence with no intent to do harm other than the rape.

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anger rapist

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physically brutal with intended rage and retaliation against women

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sadistic rapist:

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sees sexual abuse of the vicitm as gratifying and exciting. may use bizarre ritualistic behavior or torture in extreme cases murder

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phases of rape trauma syndrome:

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A. Immediate/ acute (IMPACT) post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
B. recoil–struggling to adapt
C> reorganization phase
Goal: move from victim to survivor status

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