Child abuse, self-esteem and depression among school going adolescents

Abstract

This report is as a result of completion of the academic desertion as part of the requirement to finish the course of community psychology. The report is categorized in to five main chapters whereby chapter one mainly focusses on the background of the research topic, statement of the problem, purpose of the study, scope of the study, significance and the conceptual frame work of the study. Chapter two focusses on the literature review of the study and the hypotheses formulated from the literature acquired and then chapter three focuses on the methodology being used to conduct the study especially in the field. Chapter four focusses on the analysis of the data and interpretation of the results acquired from the field then finally chapter five focusses on the discussions of the results, drawn conclusions and the recommendations.