Social Awareness

 ~ Tanvi Meena  As human beings, we interact with others through physical touch in various ways. While some types of touch are welcome and positive, others can be harmful and negative. Understanding the difference between good touch and bad touch is crucial, especially for children, as they are more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. Good Touch Good touch is any type of physical contact that feels comfortable, safe, and appropriate. Good touch can be used to show affection, support, and care. Examples of good touch include hugs, high-fives, pats on the back, holding hands, and massages. Good touch can also include medical examinations, such as check-ups or vaccinations, when performed by a trusted and qualified healthcare professional. Case Study Example: A mother giving her child a warm hug after a long day at school or a coach high-fiving a player after a successful play. Bad Touch Bad touch refers to any type of physical contact that makes someone feel uncomfortable, uns...

Anyone can experience financial abuse. It can occur no matter your age, where you live, your occupation, your abilities or disabilities, your sexuality, your gender, your religion, your ethnicity, your skin colour, your residential status, your education, your social class, whether you live with your partner, whether you have children or whether you are in a monogamous relationship, have more than one partner or if you are no longer in a relationship. Financial abuse can also occur in other family relationships. This can be between parents and children, between relatives or in any family-like relationship such as with carers or housemates. Although it can happen to anyone, like other forms of family violence, the vast majority of violence is perpetrated by men against women. The effects of financial abuse are often devastating. Victims feel inadequate and unsure of themselves due to the emotional abuse that accompanies financial abuse. They also have to go without food and other necess...

Financial abuse involves controlling a victim's ability to acquire, use, and maintain financial resources. Those who are victimized financially may be prevented from working. While less commonly understood than other forms of abuse, financial abuse is one of the most powerful methods of keeping a victim trapped in an abusive relationship. Research shows that victims often are too concerned about their ability to provide financially for themselves and their children to end the relationship. Financial insecurity is also one of the top reasons women return to an abusive partner. Signs of Financial Abuse Overall, financial abuse is very isolating because victims often become financially dependent on their abusers. This financial dependence traps them in the relationship. Without resources, they are unable to see a way out of their situation.Below is an overview of the way financial abuse is perpetrated. Some abusers may use all of these tactics while others may only use one or two. Re...

  “He would belittle my professional achievements and act as timekeeper to demand I did not work late to further my career. He would speak and act as if my time were his possession that I was stealing by going the extra mile at work.” “I worked for his business full-time seven days a week, but I wasn’t paid. I was given £30 a week to run the house. He said I was doing it for the family.” “The income was in his name; the outgoings were in my name”. “We’d go shopping together but I wouldn’t dare put anything into the trolley. I’d tell  the children they couldn’t put anything in either as we had no money.” “It’s the basis of all control. They make you dependent on them. They cut off your routes of what you can do. Finance is the basics. I was given such a little amount then expected to buy things and do things.” Sounds relatable?  Financial abuse is one aspect of domestic violence, as a type of abuse occurring within the context of coercive and controlling behavior. Coerciv...

 - by Isha Sarwa  Science shows that life is a story for which the beginning sets the tone. That makes the early years of childhood a time of great opportunity, but also great risk.  Children’s brains are built, moment by moment, as they interact with their environments. In the first few years of life, more than one million neural connections are formed each second – a pace never repeated again. The quality of a child’s early experiences makes a critical difference as their brains develop, providing either strong or weak foundations for learning, health and behaviour throughout life.  Early childhood offers a critical window of opportunity to shape the trajectory of a child’s holistic development and build a foundation for their future. For children to achieve their full potential, as is their human right, they need health care and nutrition, protection from harm and a sense of security, opportunities for early learning, and responsive caregiving – like talking, sing...

  Blood injury injection (BII) phobia is a common psychiatric disorder, with an estimated prevalence of 3% to 4% in the general population . While most patients with blood injury phobia will not look for medical assistance and refuse medical appointments because of anxiety symptoms emerging with exposure, do not present to clinics or hospitals, and generally refuse hospital appointments because these things act as a phobic stimulus to them which increase their anxiety. BII phobia is a condition in which people are likely to faint at the sight of blood, the anticipation of physical injury, or the anticipation of an injection, characterised by avoidance behaviour and intense, irrational fear in response to seeing blood, injections, injuries, disability, or exposure to these or other similar medical procedures . It is often called a blood-injury-injection (BII) phobia because often blood, injury, and injection are the cues that can trigger a faint as is generally represented in the li...