Review of Abuse and Violence against Women and Children in Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Centres

• Main Authors: Seyyed Hadi Motamedi, Asghar Dadkhah, Mohammad Reza Khodaee Ardakani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Negah Institute for Scientific Communication 2009-04-01
• Series: Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
• Subjects: Abuse; Violence; Women; Children
• Online Access: http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-46-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1

The growth and development process of the child is influenced by reciprocal environmental, psychological and social factors, and the family’s role is very crucial in all of this. It is obvious that although it’s important to start a family, but what’s further important is its survival in a healthy and intimate atmosphere. It has been estimated that between 2 and 12 million American families are subjected to wife abuse. Child abuse takes place in different forms. According to a World Bank report one third of children in the first few years of the new millennium are deprived of their fundamental rights. The present research indicates that those that reported abuse through public information were low in number only at 4.5%, which is indicative of poor education and people participation. In the services that were provided to the victims, counselling and psychotherapy were the highest number, and it is necessary to raise the number of legal services provided for the victims (3%), in order to realise the rights of the individual.