Child Abuse Vocabulary
Across
- 4. Anything to a child's health or welfare
- 5. Exemption from civil or criminal charges resulting from reporting "in good faith"
- 7. Failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care or needed supervision.
- 10. Physician, school teacher, law enforcement officer, judge, health or mental health professional
- 11. Any non-accidental injury, sexual battery, or injury to the intellectual or psychological capacity of a child by the parent, adult household member, or other person responsible for the child's welfare.
- 12. Sexual contact or interaction between a child and an adult or older child. Includes exposure, fondling, touching sexual organs, forcible rape, sodomy, exploitation, and showing pornography.
- 13. a human being between the stages of birth and puberty
Down
- 1. Anything to a child's health or welfare
- 2. The mistreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child's welfare that results in injury or harm to the child.
- 3. When the parents deny satisfying or fulfilling relationships, thus avoiding most interactions as a method of avoiding rejection and failure. The lack of support or emotional care or love can cause the infant and/or child's weight to fall below the 5th percentile for age.
- 6. Failure to provide support, acceptance, attention, warmth, supervision and normal living experiences for a child to extent that the child is impaired in ability to function normally in performance and behavior.
- 8. domestic abuse directed at a child
- 9. A form of emotional abuse that involves excessive yelling, shaming, belittling and/or teasing of a child.