Intentional injuries

• This lesson focuses on intentional injuries and aims to equip with knowledge and understanding of types of intentional injuries and their risks to health
• Basic necessities of mankind

  • Food
  • Clothing
  • Shelter
• We are always exposed to dangers
• Unintentional injuries vs intentional injuries

  Unintentional injuries are caused mainly by accidents, while intentional injuries are caused by intention to hurt oneself or others
• Recognizing a person with suicidal tendencies: clues through behavior, speech, talking about suicide or death, writing farewell letters, giving away valuable things, showing changes in behavior, moods, and feelings
• Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life
• Types of intentional injuries

  • Self-inflicted
  • Assault
• Actions included in domestic violence

  • Name-calling or put-downs
  • Keeping a partner from contacting family or friends
  • Withholding money or allowance
  • Denying financial support
  • Physical harm
  • Sexual assault
  • Stalking
  • Intimidation
• One rising necessity is safety
• It is necessary to be aware of possible dangers, their effects, and how to prevent or minimize them
• The lesson aims to prevent intentional injuries and promote a culture of non-violence
• Intentional injuries are injuries resulting from violence
• Classifications of assault

  • Committed within the family
  • Committed by peers
  • Committed by other groups
  • Committed by family, peers, or other groups
• Para suicide is a suicide attempt where the person does not intend to die, often a cry for help
• Domestic violence includes physical assault, sexual abuse, and verbal abuse used by one person in a relationship to control the other
• Possible victims of domestic violence: anyone at risk, especially if partner is very jealous, controlling, violent, abusive, etc.
• Some children experience domestic violence in their homes
• Children in a violent home experience different problems as they grow up
• Bullying is an unwanted aggressive behavior that is repeated over time
• In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include an imbalance of power
• Stalking is a pattern of behavior that makes the victim feel afraid, nervous, harassed, or in danger
• Extortion is using force or threats to make people hand over money or properties
• Reasons young people join gangs

  • Need to belong, desire for adventure, feeling protected and looked out for
• Problems from a violent home do not go away on their own and can persist as the child gets older
• Children in a violent home can feel helpless, scared, upset, and blame themselves
• Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious lasting problems
• Classifications of bullying

  • Verbal bullying, Social bullying, Physical bullying, Cyberbullying
• Behaviors that indicate a toxic relationship

  Break off the relationship hurts, is violent, brags about hurting others, puts down, forces to have sex, abuses drugs or alcohol, pressures to use drugs or alcohol, has a history of bad relationships and blames it on others
• Stalking behaviors

  • Repeatedly contacting, following, sending things, talking, invading privacy
• Gang members are responsible for serious crimes like extortion, theft, robbery, and drug selling
• Gang is a group of young people engaging in criminal activity and violence
• Initiation rights in fraternities

  Hazing or activities that involve harassment, abuse, or humiliation
• Hazing and other forms of initiation rights in fraternities, sororities, and organizations are now being regulated under the Republic Act 8049 known as the Anti-Hazing Law
• Abduction usually happens to children with separated parents wherein the child will be tricked by one parent to come with him or her and take the child away from the other parent who has sole custody of the child
• Types of serious crimes committed by gang members

  • Extortion
  • Theft
  • Robbery
  • Selling drugs
  • Bringing weapons to school
• Kidnapping is taking away or forcefully moving a person against his or her will and holding him or her in unjust captivity
• Categories of acts of terror

  • State terrorism
  • Bioterrorism
• Fraternities often get involved in riots or fights with rival groups


  Exposing them to more danger
• Hazing can be very dangerous to applicants as they will be subjected to physical and psychological suffering like being beaten with wooden paddles and may cause them a lot of injuries, some even die in the process
• Benefits youth may think of in joining a fraternity

  • Gain in power and protection
  • Guidance and assistance from seniors
  • Academic support
  • Sense of belongingness