Institutional Abuse and Disability Abuse: Protecting Vulnerable Adults

Institutional abuse affects some of society’s most vulnerable people — disabled adults in care homes, group homes, psychiatric facilities, and residential programs. Disability abuse takes many forms: physical mistreatment, financial exploitation, emotional manipulation, neglect, and sexual assault. Disabled abuse is often invisible to outsiders because victims may struggle to communicate, fear retaliation, or simply not …

Social Abuse and the Importance of Social Impact: Understanding Harm at Scale

Social abuse occurs when systems, institutions, or communities inflict harm through exclusion, marginalization, or the misuse of authority. It differs from individual abuse in scale — it affects entire groups rather than single relationships. The importance of social impact as a framework becomes clear when we recognize that addressing social abuse requires collective responses, not …