Child Abuse and role of Social Workers in addressing it

 

Introduction
According to the World health organization, child abuse or child maltreatment is a global problem occurring due to negligence or physical mental, sexual abuse that occur in children under 18 years and pertains to physical and or emotional mistreatment, asexual abuse, negligence, exploitation for commercial purposes etc that eventually leads to the detrimental effect on the psyche, behavior, health , dignify , survival in the long run . (WHO, n.d) .According to NASW(2019), death of a child occurs form neglect and child abuse in the US every day and in many of the concerned conditions, the horrible and horrific deaths could be well prevented by proper intervention and activities of the social workers associated with the same. The aspects of child abuse are witnessed by social workers, especially in families with challenging conditions and are then charged with investigating and then intervening drug exposures, sexual abuses and other