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A 4 page investigation of the problems encountered by children who witness domestic violence. These problems can be long-term and severe. One of the more effective forms of address is group intervention. Bibliography lists 6
sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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Domestic violence claims both primary and secondary victims. While adults are often the primary target of the abuse, children too often become the secondary
victims. These children have not only been physically endangered, they have often been humiliated and forced to endure pain and terror over a significant percentage of their daily lives.
Unfortunately, statistics demonstrate that children that grow up witnessing abuse too often perpetuate that abuse themselves or consider it a normal part of a relationship and allow themselves to
be subjected to it as adults (Stoppard, 2005). As Stoppard (2005) so aptly observes "a worse indictment of the society that we live in today I find difficult to
imagine". The child that witnesses domestic violence can suffer many long-term impacts. These include "lower social competence, poor school performance,
impeded language ability, depression, anxiety disorders and self harm, injury and disability, and in rare cases, death" (NSW 2005, p. 1). These child witnesses suffer humiliation, isolation, vulnerability, difficulty
in concentrating, and even disorientation (Ellensweig-Tepper, 2000). Ellensweig-Tepper (2000) identifies post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as one of the manifestations domestic violence in
the child that has witnessed that violence. She points out that PTSD is now:
"recognized as a disorder that affects adolescents and as a source of emotional suffering and pain, as well as affecting the adolescents emotions, behaviors, maturation and development, physiology, and cognitions"
(Ellensweig-Tepper, 2000, pg 17) We have many obligations when it come to protecting the welfare
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