Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 28 : Protecting children from Neglect and Abuse

Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse is also known as verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment. It includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause serious behavioural cognitive, emotional or mental trauma. This can include parents/caretakers using extreme and or bizarre forms of punishment such as confinement in a closet or dark room or being tied to a chair for long periods of time or threatening or terrorizing a child. Less severe acts, but no less damaging are belittling or rejecting treatment, using derogatory terms to describe the child, habitual tendency to blame the child or make him/her a scapegoat.