1Asst. Professor, Psychiatry, Kamineni Academy of Medical sciences & Research Center, L. B. Nagar, Hyderabad
2Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Kamineni Academy of Medical sciences & Research Center, L. B. Nagar, Hyderabad
3Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Kamineni Institute of Medical, Sciences, Narketpally District. Nalgonda
4Prof. & HOD, Psychiatry, Kamineni Institute of Medical, Sciences, Narketpally District. Nalgonda
*Corresponding author: Nishat Ahmed Sheikh, Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Narketpally, District Nalgonda, State Andhra Pradesh. Email ID: drnishatsheikh@gmail.com, Contact No: + 91 009390058109
Online published on 6 February, 2014.
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.
Sexual Abuse, Psychology, Social Stigma
