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Emotional Abuse

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EMOTIONAL CHILD ABUSE

Emotional child abuse involves behavior that interferes with a child’s mental health or social development: one website calls it “the systematic tearing down of another human being.” Such abuse can range from verbal insults to acts of terror, and it’s almost always a factor in the other three categories of abuse. While emotional abuse by itself doesn’t involve the infliction of physical pain or inappropriate physical contact, it can have more long-lasting negative psychological effects than either physical abuse or sexual abuse.

VERBAL & EMOTIONAL ABUSE SIGNS:

Boys
» aggression
» temper tantrums
» fights with peers and siblings
» bullying tactics
» frustrates easily
» disobedience
» lying and cheating
» destructive behaviours
» impulsive behaviours
» argumentative
» loud
» tease excessively
» worry excessively
» withdrawn

Girls

» passive
» approval-seeking
» compliant
» frustrates easily
» infinite patience
» clinging to adults
» overly dependent
» stubborn
» tease excessively
» worry excessively
» somatic complain
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Emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior that attacks a child’s emotional development and sense of self-worth. Emotional abuse includes excessive, aggressive or unreasonable demands that place expectations on a child beyond his or her capacity. Constant criticizing, belittling, insulting, rejecting and teasing are some of the forms these verbal attacks can take. Emotional abuse also includes failure to provide the psychological nurturing necessary for a child’s psychological growth and development — providing no love, support or guidance (National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, 1987).

INDICATORS

child rocks, sucks, bites self
inappropriately aggressive,
destructive to others
suffers from sleep, speech disorders
restricts play activities or experiences
demonstrates compulsions, obsessions, phobias, hysterical outbursts
negative statements about self
shy, passive, compliant
lags in physical, mental and emotional development
self destructive behavior
highly aggressive
cruel to others
overly demanding

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Victoria Richardson Says:

I would like to of service in this cause in any way I can. I too suffered emotional abuse
by a stepmother after kmy own Mom died when I was four years old, and still can be subjected to it by the abuser. It has taken me a lifetime to deal with it and even though I have tried to overcome those feelings of low self esteme and no self esteme , I accept that it may be impossible in this lifetime. All areas of my life have been affected & I have spent a fortune to get help.

Let me know what I can contribute.

Posted on July 4th, 2010 at 9:23 pm