Mistreatment Of People Research Articles

Fighting for Ben, a family’s story

Purpose This paper aims to study themes of abuse and mistreatment of people with a learning disability. Personal stories of lived experience such as this are important pieces of learning and information for practitioners. This case study is intended to add to the limited available knowledge base of lived experience, offering insight into safeguarding in practice. Design/methodology/approach This is a single case study highlighting lived experiences written by and from the perspective of a sibling of a person with a learning disability who has experienced abuse in the social-care system. Findings Structural ongoing abuse occurs and has occurred in the social care system. How we respond to this as a system and societally is a multi-layered challenge that underpins the ability to ensure the safety and well-being of the most vulnerable peers. Originality/value Case studies such as this are limited, with underpinning themes that are all too common. The case study adds to literature that gives insight and perspective into experiences of systems, and of systemic failures to act.

From the “backburner” to the forefront: Qualitative analysis of medical and physician assistant students’ reflections on Crip Camp

BackgroundDisability-focused health professions education must evolve to portray the lives of disabled patients, lived experiences of ableism, and disability history more accurately and authentically. Methods of education that utilize first-person perspectives of disabled people to deliver authentic representations are limited in the current literature. ObjectiveTo explore first-year medical and physician assistant students' reflections on healthcare access, healthcare providers’ roles, and barriers to health equity for patients with disabilities after watching an exemplar, first-person perspective documentary titled Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. MethodsA three-part, student-created disability curriculum “Introduction to Disability and Anti-Ableist Healthcare” was offered as an elective for first-year medical students during the 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 academic years. The disability curriculum was required for first-year physician assistant students during the 2023–2024 academic year. One curricular component was watching Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and completing a 500-750-word reflective essay. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to organize essay responses. ResultsSeven major themes emerged in the students’ essays highlighting the importance of disability-focused education, the necessity of understanding the historical context and mistreatment of people with disabilities, limitations of health policies and health systems, the role of trainees and providers, and intersectionality. Themes were aligned with the socioecological model and disability consciousness to reflect healthcare delivery and education benefit, respectively. ConclusionCrip Camp: A Disability Revolution was an effective educational intervention to provide and apply knowledge in reflecting on healthcare experiences of people with disabilities. The themes have implications for health professions education and health care delivery.

Alternative Dispute Resolution In Cyber Dispute Resolution With Mediation Techniques

Introduction: Law enforcement and protection for cyber cases is focused on the protection of cyber victims consisting of physical or psychological violence, retaliation, humiliation, and mistreatment of people who commit cyber crimes, the sophistication of the media makes people often involved with cyber crimes. Where the focus of this paper discusses alternative cyber dispute resolution.Purposes of the Research: The purpose of this study is to explain the concept of cyber dispute resolution by using mediation as an option.Methods of the Research: The research method used is normative legal research with a statute legal approach and a conceptual approach.Results of the Research: Cyber dispute resolution, cyber crimes that can be done anywhere, even with the sophistication of technology today is possible for a criminal to use equipment that allows difficult or even untraceable places about where the crime was committed so that the first step in alternative dispute resolution is using persuasive ways with mediation mechanisms and then further, improving the quality of law enforcement in, make the law as the basis in every action in order to create equality before the law and the rule of law.

Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions

Affirmative action has long been a contentious issue in the United States. Using data from a 2021 national YouGov sample of 1125 U.S. adults, we are the first to examine the effect of moral intuitions on people's support for affirmative action in college admissions. We find that those with strong individualizing moral intuitions—a heightened general concern with avoiding harm and mistreatment of people—are more likely to support affirmative action. We find that its effect is mediated in large part by beliefs in the extent of systemic racism, as those with strong individualizing moral intuitions are more likely to also believe that systemic racism is pervasive, and also partly by low levels of racial resentment. Conversely, those with strong binding moral intuitions—a heightened concern with the cohesion of social groups—are less likely to support affirmative action. This effect is also mediated by belief in the extent of systemic racism and racial resentment, as those with strong binding moral intuitions are more likely to believe both that the system is fair and have higher levels of racial resentment. Our study suggests that future work should consider the role of moral intuitions in shaping people's views of contentious social policies.

The Power of Proof In Victims of Sexsual Abuse

Introduction: Enforcement and legal protection for sexual assault cases has focused on protecting the victims of sexual assault law which consists of physical or psychological violence, retaliation, humiliation, and mistreatment of people who support victims of violence against women in particular. Where the focus of this tuilsan mebahas about the legal protection of victims of sexual violence in Indonesian criminal law and how the penultimate case of sexual violence.Purposes of the Research: The purpose of this study is to explain the concept Absentia trial by applying the return of State.Methods of the Research: The research method used is normative legal research with a statute legal approach and a conceptual approach.Results of the Research: Sexual violence itself becomes an urgency, given the rise of cases of sexual violence in Indonesia. By creating laws that protect victims of sexual violence, the resolution of sexual violence cases and the protection of victims of sexual violence cases can be executed well. So that the law in Indonesia can be implemented in accordance with its purpose, which is to protect all Indonesian people from crime cases.

University students’ perspectives on mental illness stigma

Mental health issues are increasingly prevalent among North American post-secondary students and often impede academic progress. However, students appear reluctant to seek help and access mental health services due to stigma associated with mental health issues. Our study explored university students’ perspectives on and experiences of mental illness stigma on campus with the ultimate aim of working towards building more inclusive communities. Drawing on a participatory action research approach, we recruited 24 Canadian university students and conducted 13 semi-structured interviews, three focus groups, and three Photovoice sessions. Thematic analysis of the transcribed narratives and discussions derived from the data-collection process generated three themes. First, students identified academic pressure, the concealed nature of mental illness, and mistreatment of people with mental illness as sources of stigma. Second, stigma threatened three aspects of student life: being, doing, and belonging. Third, enhancing awareness of students’ mental health issues and improving mental health service delivery were indicated as critical to addressing stigma. The university's ability-focused culture appeared to contribute to reinforcing stigma and to students being threatened with losing or damaging their academic competence status. Universities should initiate dialogue with students and faculty to communicate the relationship between students’ mental health and academic success.

Four contexts of institutional oppression: Examining the experiences of Blacks in education, criminal justice and child welfare

ABSTRACTInstitutions are key sites of oppression. Institutional oppression is defined as the mistreatment of people of a particular group that is enforced by society and its institutions. It is a system of invisible barriers that emerge from institutional laws, customs and practices, thus producing inequities for particular groups across race, gender and class. Woven together, the web of institutional oppression is vast, cumulative and multi-faceted, including both overt and covert discriminatory practices and behaviors. Based in a critical review of the literature, the authors of this article introduce and describe four characteristics of institutional oppression that specifically impact the lives of Black Americans. Furthermore, we provide a case vignette that illustrates these characteristics of oppression. The article concludes with recommendations on dismantling institutional oppression and highlights the roles that social workers can play in collaboration with educators and other professionals.

Mistreatment of Alzheimer's patients: Predictive factors

IntroductionViolence against elderly persons is an intricate social, legal and ethic issue. Alzheimer's patients are the most vulnerable individuals to mistreatment and neglect. The aggressor can be even the main helper of the patient. We noticed a wide underestimation of this phenomenon, which remains taboo subject in our society.Objectives and methods– The aim of our study is to identify predictive factors of mistreatment of Alzheimer's patients through a prospective and descriptive study, within patients following in the department of neurology in Razi's hospital.– we evaluate cognitive function (MMSE) and the importance of behavioural disorders.– we explored helper's socio-demographic characteristics and the quality of aid relationship.– anger and hostility within relationship were estimated through family attitude scale.ResultsOur sample accounts 60 informal caregivers predominately female (91.7%) with an average age of 49.67 years, mostly are married (71.66%) and jobless (38.88%):– in 78.3% of cases, caregivers spent about 12 to 24 hours per day with Alzheimer's patient.– the average score of FAS was about 52.4% with an important emotional charge (score >60).– twenty-five caregivers wished the death of the patient and 42 others admitted being sarcastic with him.– We noticed a correlation between mistreatment and both cognitive function and behavioural disorders.ConclusionOur results support the fact that mistreatment of people with dementia is closely related with the exhausting situation of the main caregiver.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Interactional perspectives on the mistreatment of older and vulnerable people in long‐term care settings

This article draws on a study aimed at developing theoretical and methodological understanding of the abuse and neglect (mistreatment) of older people in long-term care settings such as care homes and hospitals. It presents an interactionist account of mistreatment of older people in such establishments. Starting with an outline of definitional issues surrounding the topic, the allied concept of dignity is also briefly explored, and one important model described; we present dignity as the converse of mistreatment. The article argues for the potential of a positioning theory analysis of mistreatment. Positioning theory proposes that interactions are based on taking of 'positions', clusters of rights and duties to act in certain ways and impose particular meanings, which enable or prohibit access to certain storylines. It is argued that 'malignant' positioning can contribute to the creation of a climate that allows mistreatment to take place, or fails to prohibit its development. Mistreatment of people with dementia is used as an illustration, and it is argued that this is potentially generated by negative feedback loops of behaviour patterns, interpretations and malignant positioning by staff or family carers and subsequent response to these interpretations by the person with dementia. Positioning theory also allows for an explanation of the importance and impact of organizational cultures and social factors such as ageism. Individual staff members take positions, use meanings and develop storylines imbued with such factors. This understanding therefore overcomes some of the potential confusions created by concepts such as organizational or institutional abuse, removing the need to ascribe intentions and personal responsibility to such constructs. The article concludes with some suggestions for further research to develop an understanding of the kinds of cultures that allow mistreatment and consequently to inform the development of protective measures.

Caregiver Abuse and Neglect of People with Multiple Sclerosis (P06.198)

Objective:Objective 1: To define major categories of caregiver mistreatment of people with MS and validate a survey instrumentthat reliably detects their presence and severity.Objective 2: To investigate risk factors associated with abuse and neglect among people with MS and their caregivers. Background Approximately one in four people with MS experiences sufficient disability to require formal caregiving, most of which is provided by family members. There is limited literature on caregiver abuse in MS. We therefore undertook a research project to investigate caregiver mistreatment. Design/Methods: An advisory board agreed upon definitions of mistreatment. A Longitudinal, Experts, All Data panel assessed whether caregiver mistreatment had occurred in each participant dyad. During structured, in-home interviews, we assessed 102 participant dyads with the MS Functional Composite, Modified Fatigue Impact Scale, MS Self-Efficacy Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, and quality of life items from the MSQOL. Caregivers completed ADL care scales and documented their weekly caregiving hours. Categorical variables were tested with chi-square analysis. For continuous variables, tests included ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis tests, and logistic regression analyses. Results: Caregivers were predominantly family members. Fifty-seven (55.9%) of participants reported mistreatment. Subtype prevalence rates were 45.1% for psychological abuse, 12.7% for physical abuse, 4.9% for sexual abuse, 22.5% for neglect, and 17.6% for financial abuse. We found significant group differences for depression, psychological aggression, physical assault, quality of life, social support of the person with MS, and whether the caregiver had a mental health diagnosis. Conclusions: We found high rates of caregiver abuse and neglect of people with MS. Increased disability was not associated with mistreatment or severity of mistreatment. Limitations in this study included its small sample size and the fact that most participants were from a single university medical center. Nonetheless, these preliminary data confirm that people with MS tend to be at high risk of abuse and neglect. Supported by: A research contract from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Disclosure: Dr. Morrison has received personal compensation for activities with Teva Neuroscience and Biogen Idec as a speaker. Dr. MOrrison has received research support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dr. Wiglesworth has received research support from National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dr. Sorkin has received research support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dr. Mosqueda has received research support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Give the NMC some teeth

News that police have arrested 11 staff in connection with allegations of abuse and mistreatment of people at Winterbourne View hospital will be cold comfort to the patients and families concerned.

Social Capital and Protecting the Rights of the Accused in the American States

High levels of social capital in communities are related to a number of positive conditions. Although high levels of social capital are generally viewed positively, they may also have negative consequences, particularly the mistreatment of people outside the mainstream. As social capital increases, individuals charged with committing crimes—norm violators—may experience increased sanctions and decreased constitutional protections from the state. To explore this aspect of social capital, this study examines the relationship between a state's level of social capital and the likelihood of its highest court granting criminal defendants rights beyond those man-dated by the Supreme Court.

Managing diversity in hospitals

Hospital work force diversity, although potentially a source of creativity and improved problem solving, is often a source of political strife and the mistreatment of people based on their identification with one or another of the diverse groups that are employed in hospitals. Factors linked to these phenomena are discussed and are the basis for suggestions about how administrators can deal with the organizational pathologies that are often associated with unmanaged work force diversity.