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Institutional abuse
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_abuse
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Institutional abuse is the maltreatment of a person (often children or older adults) from a system of power.
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Institutional abuse can be divided into three categories:
overt abuse - similar to familial abuse in its overt physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by a foster parent or child care worker
program abuse - unique to an institutional situation, in which a program must operate below acceptable conditions or improperly use power to modify the behavior of person
system abuse - involves an entire care system that is stretched beyond capacity, and causes maltreatment through inadequate resources.
These issues range from personal abuses to situational maltreatment, and differ greatly in their causes. Most institutional abuses are the result of difficult and stressful working environments, where those with the least training often have the most contact with the participants, and have the hardest schedules, least payment, and most undesirable working conditions.The high-stress working environments of care workers combined with low-quality hiring and screening practices of workers can create abusive situations through lack of experience or knowledge on the worker's part.Lack of proper training for workers can conflict or hurt institutional goals for patients through improper implementation of treatments, compounded by organizational structure that only has doctors and psychologists on site for short hours. In overstressed situations, power over the patients can bring feelings of control and significance, leading to stress being a predictor of abuse in institutional and familial settings. isolation from the community can have similar effects.
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