Emotional Child Abuse Custom Search
What are my credentials to write this page? I am a trained Violence and Abuse Prevention Educator, and I grew up in a home where emotional abuse was considered the only way to raise children. The term emotional child abuse didn't even exist when I was growing up. But that didn't change the devastating outcome--the effects were severe, ever-present, and followed me into adulthood. Until I got psychiatric help. Check out my story for more details. Emotional abuse is the cornerstone of all the abuses because emotional abuse is always present during physical child abuse, child neglect, and sexual child abuse, and it is the only abuse that can stand on its own. It does not have to accompany any of the other abuses. Emotional child abuse is defined as the constant attack of a child or youth by an adult that negatively affects the child or youth's self-worth. It is important to note here the word 'constant'. With emotional abuse, the child/youth receives only negative messages, nothing positive.
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This page will provide a definition of emotional child abuse, as well as additional pages to visit on this site for information about types, signs, effects and statistics of emotional abuse.| Emotional Abuse | Emotional Abuse Types |
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NOTE: Information pages on this site were based on material from the 
Canadian Red Cross RespectED Training Program. Written permission was obtained to use their copyrighted material on this site.