Mental Health and Psychiatry

Child Abuse

Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, and/ or cerebral maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to act by a parent or a caregiver that results in factual or implicit detriment to a child and can do in a child's home, or in the associations, seminaries, or communities the child interacts with. The terms child abuse and child maltreatment are frequently used interchangeably, although some experimenters make a distinction between them, treating child maltreatment as a marquee term to cover neglect, exploitation, and trafficking.

Types of child abuse: