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Ulloa Flores, Rosa Elena; Navarro Machuca, Irma Gabriela
Estudio descriptivo de la prevalencia y tipos de maltrato en adolescentes con
psicopatología
Salud Mental, vol. 34, núm. 3, mayo-junio, 2011, pp. 219-225
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente MuñizDistrito Federal, México
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Prevalencia y tipos de maltrato en adolescentes con psicopatología

Estudio descriptivo de la prevalencia y tipos
de maltrato en adolescentes con psicopatología
Rosa Elena Ulloa Flores,1 Irma Gabriela Navarro Machuca2
Artículo original

SUMMARY
Child abuse is defined as causing or permitting any harmful oroffensive contact on a child’s body; and any communication or
transaction of any kind which humiliates, shames, or frightens the
child. Some child development experts go a bit further and define
child abuse as any act or omission, which fails to nurture or in the
upbringing of the children. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Act defines child abuse and neglect as: «at a minimum, anyrecent
act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results
in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or
exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent
risk of serious harm.» Child abuse can be classified as physical,
emotional, neglect or sexual.
Physical Abuse: This type of abuse can be defined as the inflicting
of physical injuryupon a child. This may include burning, hitting,
punching, shaking, kicking, beating, or otherwise harming a child. The
parent or caretaker may not have intended to hurt the child, the injury
is not an accident. It may, however, been the result of over-discipline or
physical punishment that is inappropriate to the child’s age.
Emotional Abuse (also known as verbal abuse, mental abuse,
andpsychological maltreatment): This type of abuse includes acts or
the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could
cause serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders.
Neglect: This type is defined as the failure to provide for the
child’s basic needs. Neglect can be physical, educational, or
emotional. Physical neglect can include not providing adequate foodor clothing, appropriate medical care, supervision, or proper weather
protection (heat or coats). It may include abandonment. Educational
neglect includes failure to provide appropriate schooling or special
educational needs, allowing excessive truancies.
Sexual Abuse: It refers to the inappropriate sexual behavior with a
child. It includes fondling a child’s genitals, making the child fondlethe
adult’s genitals, intercourse, incest, rape, sodomy, exhibitionism and
sexual exploitation. To be considered child abuse these acts have to be
committed by a person responsible for the care of a child (for example
a baby-sitter, a parent, or a daycare provider) or related to the child.
The prevalence of child abuse has been reported as 4.5% to 21.6%
in epidemiological studies and 14.6%to 48% in clinical studies. An
epidemiological study in Mexico found at 16% to 20% prevalence, being
the physical and emotional abuse the more frequently reported. This
study also showed that the mother is the perpetrator in a high percentage
of cases and mentioned some characteristics of the patients and their
families which were associated with the different types of abuse.

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