Emotional maltreatment includes caregiver actions that result in, or has the potential to result in adverse effects on the child's emotional health and development.
Not exact matches
Child
Maltreatment: Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences in East Asia and the Pacific
Maltreatment of children -
including physical, sexual, and
emotional abuse; neglect; and exploitation - is all too prevalent in the East Asia and Pacific regions, a report from UNICEF finds.
The effect of the nurses and paraprofessionals on responsive mother - child interaction indicates that the program was operating as intended in helping parents provide more sensitive and responsive care for their children, which is thought to promote secure attachment and healthy
emotional and behavioral development.49 The reductions in subsequent pregnancies and increases in interpregnancy intervals are particularly important as short interpregnancy intervals increase the risk of child
maltreatment (
including infant homicide among teen parents) 50 and compromise families» economic self - sufficiency.51
Professor Prinz argues that the parenting - focused aspects of child
maltreatment prevention can extend beyond the original goal,
including the prevention of childhood social,
emotional, and behavioural problems; the reduction of risk for adverse adolescent outcomes (such as substance use, delinquency and academic failure); and parental engagement for school readiness.
The page also
includes child physical and behavioral indicators of physical abuse, sexual abuse,
emotional maltreatment, and neglect.
In fact, the strategies of alienating parents, which
include «spurning, terrorizing, isolating, corrupting or exploiting and denying
emotional responsiveness,» are reportedly extreme measures of psychological
maltreatment of children.
Types of traumatic experiences are varied yet distinct,
including sexual abuse or assault, physical abuse or assault,
emotional / psychological
maltreatment, neglect, serious accident or medical illness, witness to domestic violence, victim / witness to community violence, school violence, natural or manmade disasters, forced displacement, war / terrorism, victim / witness to extreme personal / interpersonal violence, traumatic grief / separation, and system - induced trauma.
Childhood
Maltreatment Indicators (CMI): A Review of the Literature (PDF - 1,679 KB) Social Work Education Center (2014) Informs the child welfare training system regarding the scope of childhood maltreatment, including identifying indicators of maltreatment on physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and commercial sexual exploitation
Maltreatment Indicators (CMI): A Review of the Literature (PDF - 1,679 KB) Social Work Education Center (2014) Informs the child welfare training system regarding the scope of childhood
maltreatment, including identifying indicators of maltreatment on physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and commercial sexual exploitation
maltreatment,
including identifying indicators of
maltreatment on physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and commercial sexual exploitation
maltreatment on physical abuse,
emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and commercial sexual exploitation of children.
child
maltreatment Sometimes referred to as child abuse and neglect,
includes all forms of physical and
emotional maltreatment, sexual abuse, neglect, and exploitation that results in actual or potential harm to the child's health, development, or dignity.
Target Population: Families who had been reported to the child welfare system for child
maltreatment including physical and
emotional maltreatment in addition to child neglect; may be used as a court - ordered parenting program
As reported by adult children of divorce, the tactics of alienating parents are tantamount to extreme psychological
maltreatment of children,
including spurning, terrorizing, isolating, corrupting or exploiting, and denying
emotional responsiveness (Baker, 2010).
For example, previous self - report findings indicated that fearful attachment mediated associations between childhood trauma (a composite
including emotional and physical forms of
maltreatment) and psychosis - proneness [8].
Target Population: Families who have been reported to the child welfare system for child
maltreatment including physical and
emotional maltreatment in addition to child neglect; may be used as a court - ordered parenting program
It aims to address the many
emotional and psychological needs of children and young people in these situations,
including those resulting from
maltreatment.
Following Cicchetti and Valentino, 3 we
include in our definition of child
maltreatment sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and
emotional maltreatment.
Participants
included 410 early adolescents (53 % female; 51 % African American; Mean age = 12.84 years) who completed measures of social anxiety and depressive symptoms at three time points (Times 1 — 3), as well as measures of general interpersonal stressors, peer victimization, and
emotional maltreatment at Time 2.
Findings suggest that interpersonal stressors,
including the particularly detrimental stressors of peer victimization and familial
emotional maltreatment, may predict both depressive and social anxiety symptoms; however, adolescents who have more immediate depressogenic reactions may be at greater risk for later development of symptoms of social anxiety.
Seven studies
included measures of various other forms of childhood
maltreatment,
including neglect and physical and
emotional abuse (Alexander et al. 2000; Barrett 2009; Ethier et al. 1995; Harmer et al. 1999; Lang et al. 2010; Lutenbacher 2000; Pereira et al. 2012).