From the author: If you notice sudden changes in your child, in his behavior, well-being, health, you should not let everything take its course and hope that nothing terrible has happened and everything will be forgotten . Unfortunately, children, being the most unprotected and vulnerable social group, often find themselves in areas of natural disasters, military operations, and become victims of physical, sexual, and emotional violence. According to the UN, about 2 million children under the age of 14 suffer annually from parental abuse. Every tenth of them dies, and 2 thousand commit suicide (UN Center for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, 1998). How can you tell if a child has been abused? There are several main types of violence: Neglect of the needs of a child; Physical violence; Sexual violence; Emotional violence. Neglect of a child’s needs is the lack of proper provision of the child’s basic needs and requirements for food, clothing, housing, upbringing, education, medical care by parents or persons in their stead. This type of violence includes: abandonment of the child, lack of care for him, lack of clothing and good hygiene, lack of medical care, lack of education, food and housing. The consequences of each type of violence may vary depending on the age of the child. In young children, these may be: low weight and short stature, microcephaly, delayed speech development, poor attention, emotional immaturity, hyperactivity, aggressiveness, untidiness, indiscriminate friendliness (it is difficult for a child to find boundaries in communicating with different people). In primary school age, these are urinary and fecal incontinence, learning difficulties, poor attention, low self-confidence, hyperactivity and aggressiveness, a tendency to solitude, poor relationships with children and adults, and destructive behavior. In adolescents, this is a lag in weight and height or, conversely, obesity, frequent illness, untidiness, delayed sexual development, poor learning ability, absenteeism, early involvement in the use of alcohol, drugs, etc. Physical violence is an intentional or careless infliction of by adults, physical injuries that cause damage to health, disrupt its development or take life. This type of violence includes beatings, torture, concussions, blows, slaps, arson, strangulation, drowning, soldering, imprisonment with deprivation of food and drink, deprivation of warm clothing, various violations of the regime with forced execution of orders. The consequences of physical violence in preschoolers are various fears (as a rule, leaving a parent who did not commit violence and the approach of one who committed it), anxiety, mental retardation, a feeling of helplessness, autoerotic actions (rocking on a chair, thumb sucking). For younger schoolchildren, these are again fears, aggression, emotional instability, ambivalent feelings towards adults (they both love and hate), impaired cognitive activity, stigmatization (“I’m bad if they beat me”), deviation (deviant behavior). In adolescents, this may include depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), school failure, disturbances in interpersonal relationships, low self-esteem, auto-aggression (directed towards oneself), and deviations. Sexual abuse is the involvement of a child in sexually charged activities for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification or material gain from an adult. This type of violence includes caresses, touching, looking at, voyeurism (watching nudity), masturbation in front of a child, rape, incest, prostitution, pornography. The consequences of sexual abuse in preschoolers include various fears, self-blame, delays in speech and intellectual development, impaired attachment, isolation, regression (i.e. return to earlier.