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Emotional abuse

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Emotional abuse

  • emotional abuse is the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child's emotional development. It may involve conveying to children that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person
    • may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or 'making fun' of what they say or how they communicate
    • may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children
      • these may include interactions that are beyond the child's developmental capability, as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the child participating in normal social interaction
    • may involve seeing or hearing the ill treatment of anothe
    • may involve serious bullying (including cyber bullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children
  • some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, though it may occur alone

Reference:

  • Bristol CCG Safeguarding Children Policy (Accessed 12/3/2014).
  • Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Child Safeguarding Policy (Accessed 12/3/2014).

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