Strategies to help
Talk to a trusted friend or adult
Be assertive with how you want to be treated
Contact the police if you cannot get out of your abusive situation
Name the different types of abuse and describe what they mean.
Physical abuse
Where someone physically hurts you. This can be:
- hitting
- kicking
- pulling hair
- pinching, scratching, shaking
- giving someone too much or not enough medicine
Sexual abuse
Someone making you do sexual things that might make you sad, angry or frightened. This can be:
- Being touched when you do not want to be
- Being made to touch other people when you do not want to
- Undressing or having sex when you don't want to
- Being made to watch or say sexual things when you don't want to
Emotional Abuse
When someone says things to you that hurt your feelings or scare you. This can be:
- Calling you names
- Threatening you
- Laughing at you
- Treating you like a child
- Not letting you spend time with other people, or go out
- Ignoring you
Financial Abuse
When someone takes your money or things. This can be:
- Stealing your money or things
- Making you buy something you don't want to buy
- Using your money to pay for their things
- When you don't have a choice in how your money is spent
- When someone tells you that you have to give them your money or your home
Neglect
Not giving you things that you need. This can be:
- Not having your prescribed medicine when you need it
- Not being taken to the doctor if you are ill
- Being cold a lot of the time
- Being hungry a lot
- Only having dirty clothes to wear
- Not having your equipment when you need it (like hearing aids, walking frames, wheelchairs)
Discrimination
When people are treating you unfairly because you are different. This could be:
- Because of the colour of your skin
- Because of your religion
- Because of your sex
- Because of your age
- Because of your disability
- Because of your language
- If you are lesbian or gay
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