Child Abuse

Each year a significant number of children, even the most tender infancy, are referred to pediatric hospitals with unexplained physical injuries that endanger the physical and psychosocial health, and even their very lives.
The problem of child physical abuse is difficult to define clearly because of differences in habits and attitudes of people regarding the upbringing of children in different countries. Physical children, for example, is common and accepted practice for the discipline of children in several countries while in others it is childhood physical abuse and is prohibited by law.
The findings of both our country and in other countries indicate that parents of child physical abuse are people with special needs for care and support for both social actors and by mental health specialists, such as severe mental problems (eg meeting criteria for psychiatric diagnoses such as depression, personality disorder, rarely psychosis), limited cognitive abilities, a major difficulty to control themselves and their impulses (mostly aggressive), emotion deep failure on their role as parents and for the image of themselves in general.
During childhood and adolescence, the abused child expresses emotional problems, reactions and behaviors such as:
Fearful and cautious attitude towards others and towards the physical touch, especially when facing sudden movements (eg lifting hand).
A typical expression is perigrafthei as a "frozen look", especially after the violent episode, intense psychomotor agitation or / and hyperactivity. Low self-esteem, grief, sadness or apathy, withdrawal (depressive symptoms), poor performance in school as a result of mental pain or learning difficulties. Still, behavioral disorders. The intense anger and aggression experienced by the abused child may manifest themselves as reactionary or aggressive behavior toward peers or older, or destructive behavior in toys or other objects.