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Psychological Effects Of Abuse On Adolescents

Adolescents are young adults actually. Parents can easily talk about most of the problems and sort them out. Physical abuse is totally unnecessary at that age, and it could actually have detrimental effects on the emotional development of the child. Adolescents are at the most vulnerable stage of their psychological development, and these are the formative years for them.

If they have an abusive parent or peers, they may either become abusive themselves or completely timid. Also, this phase will continue and they will continue to be adults with low self esteem, low confidence and also permissive parents.

How the child is dealt with at this age lays the foundation for what kind of adults they will become, and also how they will treat others. Any wrong message can turn them into undesirable adults. Children who have been abused during their adolescence often turn abusive themselves. They also have psychological problems, and find it difficult to hold on to relationships.  The lack trust and have problems related to security.

Some of the side effects of psychological and physical abuse on children are as follows:

• Staying away from friends
• Low confidence and self esteem
• Too timid and unsure of situations or how they should react
• They can also be aggressive and hostile to people
• Anger problems
• Poor levels of friendship and unable to hold relationships with the opposite sex
• Giving in to bad habits such as smoking and alcoholism
• Poor grades at school
• No specific interests and lack of attention at school
• No goals in life

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