Abuse: A Psychosocial Perspective

Abuse is improper usage or treatment for a bad purpose. Abuse can be in many forms such as physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, sexual assault, violation, rape, offense, crime or verbal aggression. Now-a-days we are observing lot of cases of sexual abuse. Day by day reporting of these cases is also increased because of awareness of abuse.

Sexual abuse is forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. Sexual abuse has lot of ill effects on the human psyche. It causes distressing behaviors, psychiatric diagnoses and health risk behaviors. Now it is time to have some understanding about causes of abuse, psychodynamics involved and how to prevent abuse.