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Includes the unreasonable deprivation of economic or financial resources, which a complainant is entitled to under law or requires out of necessity, and the unreasonable disposal of household effects or other property in which the complainant has an interest.
Elder Abuse is defined as “a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress to an older person.” [1]
“Elder abuse often occurs when there is an imbalance of control. The abuser either limits or takes control over the rights and freedoms of the senior. The abuse/violence is used to intimidate, humiliate, coerce, frighten or simply to make the senior feel powerless.
Embodiment practices refer to methods that integrate awareness of bodily sensations to promote holistic well-being, particularly in the context of trauma and gender-based violence (GBV). These practices involve attending to the body's sensory experiences, such as emotional, physical, and sensational feelings, and incorporating this awareness into one’s overall self-conception and behavior.
In trauma-informed care, embodiment practices recognize that trauma is stored in the body and can manifest through physical symptoms such as chronic pain, dissociation, or tension. [2] By focusing on bodily sensations, individuals can process and release trauma, leading to improved mental and physical health. Somatic approaches, which emphasize the mind-body connection, are integral to these practices and are increasingly used in healing-centered work with survivors of GBV.
Emergency contraception helps prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, including rape. The “morning-after pill” should be taken as soon as possible (often within 72 hours) and is available at public health facilities and pharmacies.
Emergency contraception does not prevent HIV or other STIs, so medical care for PEP and STI support may also be needed.
Emotional abuse is behaviour used to control, shame, intimidate, or break down another person. It may not leave visible bruises, but it can deeply damage someone’s confidence, identity, and sense of safety.
Emotional abuse can include insults, humiliation, constant criticism, threats, manipulation, isolation, or denying the abuse (“You’re crazy, that never happened”). It often exists alongside physical or sexual violence, but it can also occur on its own.
Emotional abuse is the repeated use of controlling and harmful behaviours by a perpetrator to control a victim, most likely a woman. As a result of emotional abuse, a woman lives her life in fear and repeatedly alters her thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and denies her needs, to avoid further abuse. Emotional Abuse includes verbal abuse, stalking and harassing, isolation, threats, intimidation, sexual and financial abuse, and neglect. Emotional abuse is the greatest predictor of physical violence. It can be difficult to explain psychological abuse to other people because there are no physical signs of it and the impact of it can last long after the abuse has ended.
A process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health. It may be
a social, cultural, psychological or political process through which individuals and social groups are able to
express their needs, present their concerns, devise strategies for involvement in decision-making, and achieve
political, social and cultural action to meet those needs (WHO, 1998).
As it relates to social questions of fairness and justice, equality entails a principle of impartiality and sameness of treatment for all people—that is, “of ensuring equal treatment to all people, without consideration of individual and group diversities.
By comparison, equity entails a principle "of ensuring fair, inclusive and respectful treatment of all people, with consideration of individual and group diversities.
The practical differences between equality and equity emerge when social or historical factors cause sameness of treatment to be inconsistent with fairness of treatment—for instance, in cases where legacies of social inequality or systems oppression have placed groups in dominant or subordinate statuses relative to one another.
Under such circumstances, “access to services, supports and opportunities and attaining economic, political and social fairness cannot be achieved by treating individuals in exactly the same way. Equity honours and accommodates the specific needs of individuals/ groups.
A sexual deviancy that involves a pattern of urges and or behavior involving deliberately exposing one’s
genitals for purposes of excitement or sexual arousal (National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth,
2003).
- Unfair, if not illegal, treatment or use of somebody or something usually for personal gain (Estes and Weiner, 2001).
Misdemeanor committed by a person appealing to a minor, exciting him/her desires and inclinations and thus
exploits his/her weakness/destitution.