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