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The Mayo Clinic highlights the warning signs of child sexual abuse and suicide risk, including: depression, anxiety and fear; loss of self-confidence; problems sleeping; ...
Kathy Andersen asks: Is your child “just sad” or sad from abuse? Is your child “just angry” or angry at an abuser who is near?
"The purpose of emotional abuse is to create psychological weakness by undermining one's confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth," says Kathy Nickerson, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist.
According to data reported by the Children's Bureau of the US Department of Health and Human Services, more than 3.5 million allegations of child abuse were looked into by child protective services who in turn confirmed 674,000 of those cases in 2017. [203] However, CPS reports may underestimate the true scope of child maltreatment.
In 1979, Lenore E. Walker proposed the concept of battered woman syndrome (BWS). [1] She described it as consisting "of the pattern of the signs and symptoms that have been found to occur after a woman has been physically, sexually, and/or psychologically abused in an intimate relationship, when the partner (usually, but not always a man) exerted power and control over the woman to coerce her ...
Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or mental abuse or psychological violence or non-physical abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, clinical depression or post-traumatic stress disorder amongst other psychological problems.