HEALTH 4

• Suicide


  The intentional taking of one's own life
• Many of those who attempt suicide do not receive mental and emotional counselling because their families try to hide the problem because they are ashamed of it
• Parasuicide


  A cry for help, meaning the person wants others to know what they are feeling
• Signs of parasuicide


  • Talking about suicide
  • Writing farewell letters or giving away valuable things to friends and siblings
  • Showing changes in behavior, moods and feelings
• Domestic Violence


  An act that includes physical abuse (casual assault), sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual act), and verbal abuse (put downs, name calling)
• Domestic Violence


  • Keeping a partner from contacting their family or friends
  • Withholding money/allowance, or denying financial support
• Bullying

  Unwanted, aggressive behavior that is repeated, or can be repeated over time
• Bullying


  • Name calling, making fun of, making jokes at another's expense, unwelcome teasing, spreading secrets someone disclosed in confidence
• Kidnapping


  An awful restraint of a person's liberty by force or show of force
• Kidnapping


  • Parents have kidnapped children during custody fights
• Extortion


  The practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats
• Extortion


  • Robbery
• Stalking


  A pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact or any other course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear
• Stalking


  • Sending unwanted gifts
  • Regularly following someone
  • Watching or spying on someone
• Fraternity


  An organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men associated together for various religious or secular aims
• Fraternity


  • Sigma Chi chapter at a university
• Gang


  A group or persons, usually youth, who share a common identity and who generally engage in criminal behaviour
• Gang


  • A student and his aunt were shot dead by a gang of five men who burst into her home hunting for another non, their Family said yesterday
• Terrorism


  The use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws
• Terrorism


  • Kidnapping a foreigner in exchange for a ransom
• Verbal Abuse


  Also known as emotional abuse, is a range of words or behaviours used to manipulate, intimidate, and maintain power and control over someone
• Verbal Abuse


  • Yelling, screaming, swearing
• Incest


  Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry
• Incest

  • A parent raping a child
• Molestation

  The crime of engaging in sexual acts with minors, including touching and etc.
• Molestation

  • Touching private parts (for unnecessary reason)
  • Taking pornographic pictures
  • Rape