PART 1:

300 WORDS

APA FORMAT

As a human service professional, you will encounter crisis situations involving child abuse. For this Discussion, please identify and explain the following:

• Five (5) signs of child abuse.
• Your ethical and legal responsibilities related to child abuse.
• Risk factors that might contribute to child abuse.
• Interventions you might consider if you were working with the child of the abuse.
• Interventions you might consider if you were working with the perpetrator of the child abuse.

PART 2: (SECOND DOCUMENT)

300 WORDS APA

• Describe battered-woman syndrome.
• Address how exposure to violence and domestic violence affects children.
• Identify some of the common myths about domestic violence.
• List some of the reasons that women stay in verbally, emotionally, or physically abusive relationships.
• Describe the battering cycle.
• Explain why it is important for human service workers to understand the cycle of abuse.
• List five characteristics of a person who batters another person.
• Identify interventions to use with the batterer and the victim. Explain in detail why you would use these interventions.
• Share common myths and facts about rape.
• Describe the rape-trauma syndrome.
• Describe the intervention(s) would you use in working with the rape victim. Do you believe that these interventions can work to empower the victim? Why, or why not?