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Provides resources with information on violence and abuse, including bullying, abusive relationships, sexual assault, sexual abuse, family violence, and workplace violence.
Provides brief overview of issues pertaining to violence and abuse in various contexts (family, children, older adults, women, etc.) with links to the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence (Public Health Agency of Canada), prevention and protection resources, and other related Web sites.
Source: Health Canada
There is no universally accepted definition of emotional abuse. Like other forms of violence in relationships, emotional abuse is based on power and control. The following are widely recognized as forms of emotional abuse: rejecting; degrading; terrorizing; isolating; corrupting/exploiting; and denying emotional responsiveness.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
A comprehensive Web site that provides useful information for parents, teachers, youth professionals and young Canadians to help protect children and teens from sexual exploitation on the Internet.
Source: Industry Canada
New opportunities to connect via the Internet come with new risks of being harassed or bullied online.
Source: Canadian Health Network
For those who don’t self-harm, it can be difficult to understand why people would want to intentionally injure themselves. Self-harm is a broad term that refers to deliberate, self-damaging behaviour. It is sometimes called self-injury, self-mutilation, or self-abuse. It is deliberate, often repetitive actions to cause damage to skin, bones or other body parts.
Source: Canadian Health Network
In today's media reports about mental illness, there is a tendency to emphasise a supposed link between violence and mental illness. But the majority of people who are violent do not suffer from mental illnesses. In fact, people with a mental illness are more likely to be the victims, rather than the perpetrators of violence.
Source: Canadian Mental Health Association
Young people learn to cope with emotions in different ways. Tears, anger, depression and withdrawal are some of the ways of responding to and finding relief from overwhelming feelings. Self injury, also called self harm and self abuse, refers to deliberate acts that cause harm to one's body, mind and spirit.
Source: Canadian Mental Health Association
There has been growing uncertainty as to the exact nature of the relationship between mental illness and violence, among caregivers, health care providers, and advocacy groups. To help shed light on this issue, this critical review of the literature was undertaken.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
This fact sheet provides an overview of violence perpetrated by and among youth in Canada.It focuses on both young perpetrators and young victims and examines the causes and effects of violence.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
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