Features of Child Experienced Violence

Physical

Psychological/ Behavioural

Eating/ sleep disorders
Difficulty in gaining weight (infants)
Physical disorders
Sleep disorders

Aggressive behaviour and speech
Depression, anxiety and/ or inclination to suicide
Nervousness, closing in oneself
Difficulty in adapting to the changes
Regressive behaviour of infants who started to walk
Late speech development and problems
Psychosomatic diseases
Impatience and problems with concentration
Dependent, sad and closed behaviour
Bed-wetting
“Discharge”, for example, cruel behaviour with animals
Significant worsening of academic results
Fighting with peers
Too protective or afraid to leave the mother
Theft and social isolation
Shouting on parents or brothers/ sisters
Abuse of alcohol and other narcotic substances
Psychosomatic and emotional disorders
Actions of sexual abuse
Low self-esteem
Feeling of temporariness or short-lived