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  2. Verbal abuse - Wikipedia

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    In romantic relationships, specifically physically and verbally abusive ones, it has been found that when the couple has a conflict, 53% of the victims to this abuse say that physical aggression was the factor that started the conflict while 33% of the aggressors, in this case, claim that verbal aggression was the factor that ignited the issue. [6]

  3. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    [5] [6] [7] However, some advocate against this, saying it reflects a medical model of disability whereas "disabled person" is more appropriate and reflects the social model of disability. [8] On the other hand, there is also a grammar structure called identity-first language that construes disability as a function of social and political ...

  4. Violence against people with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    As mentioned by Powers and Oschwald, [4] there are seven categories of abusive behavior defined by both male and female individuals who have some form of disability: physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal or emotional abuse, neglect or withholding support, financial abuse, manipulation of medications, and destroying or disabling equipment. [2]

  5. Bullying - Wikipedia

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    Workplace bullying can include such tactics as verbal, nonverbal, psychological, physical abuse and humiliation. This type of workplace aggression is particularly difficult because, unlike the typical forms of school bullying , workplace bullies often operate within the established rules and policies of their organization and their society.

  6. Sexual harassment in education in the United States

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    The most common type is verbal, followed by physical, and visual/non-verbal. [9] In the survey conducted by the AAUW in 2000, it was found that 6 out of 10, or 58% of the students reported experiencing some form of physical harassment at some point during their time in school, and 76% reported experiencing nonphysical (verbal or visual ...

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    But local police and state authorities did not learn of alleged sexual abuse at the same facility until a boy made his third complaint, according to an internal state investigation and local police reports. A boy who said he was forced to give oral sex to a male guard on three different occasions first reported the abuse in March 2010.

  8. Category:Harassment and bullying - Wikipedia

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    Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. It is often repeated and habitual. It is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power .

  9. Psychological abuse - Wikipedia

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    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.