"Emotional maltreatment" refers to a situation where someone is harmed or mistreated emotionally. This can include actions or words that cause psychological pain, such as constantly criticizing, belittling, or ignoring someone's feelings.
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The role
of emotional maltreatment and looming cognitive style in the development of social anxiety symptoms in late adolescents.
Child neglect accounted for 40 % of the cases, physical abuse accounted for 31 %,
emotional maltreatment accounted for 19 %, and sexual abuse accounted for 10 %.
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.
The brief also lists signs and symptoms that indicate child abuse or neglect, the possibility of physical abuse, the possibility of neglect, and the possibility
of emotional maltreatment.
Although research indicates that general interpersonal stressors, peer victimization, and
familial emotional maltreatment predict symptoms of social anxiety and depression, it remains unclear how these stressors contribute to the sequential development of these internalizing symptoms.
Path analyses revealed that interpersonal stressors, peer victimization, and
emotional maltreatment predicted both depressive and social anxiety symptoms concurrently.
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.
However, depressive symptoms significantly mediated the pathway from interpersonal stressors, peer victimization, and
familial emotional maltreatment to subsequent levels of social anxiety symptoms.
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
Recognizing Child Abuse: What Parents Should Know Prevent Child Abuse Presents potential behavioral indicators of abuse in children, parents, and children and parent interactions as well as specific signs that the child or parent / caregiver may exhibit with cases of physical abuse,
emotional maltreatment, sexual abuse, and neglect.
Child abuse is divided into four types: physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse and
emotional maltreatment.
In 1990, state child - protection agencies received more than 2.5 milion reports of physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and
emotional maltreatment — 589,000 more than they had five years earlier, according to an annual survey conducted by the National Committee for the Prevention of Child abuse and released here last week.
Indicators of Child Abuse / Neglect New Jersey Department of Children and Families Lists physical and behavioral indicators of child physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, and
emotional maltreatment.
Children exposed to
emotional maltreatment can experience chronic stress that leads to physical and / or emotional impairment, such as risk behaviours (e.g., alcohol abuse) and early and persistent psychiatric disorders.
Interventions that target cognitive - emotional components have shown to yield better cognitive outcomes (e.g., memory) in children exposed to
emotional maltreatment.
Wright, M.O., Crawford, E. and Del Castillo, D. (2009) Childhood
emotional maltreatment and later psychological distress among college students: The mediating role of maladaptive schemas.
The page also includes child physical and behavioral indicators of physical abuse, sexual abuse,
emotional maltreatment, and neglect.
Recognizing Child Abuse: What Parents Should Know Prevent Child Abuse Presents potential behavioral indicators of abuse in children, parents, and children and parent interactions as well as specific signs that the child or parent / caregiver may exhibit with cases of physical abuse,
emotional maltreatment, sexual abuse, and neglect.
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.
Emotional maltreatment: Effective strategies for prevention.
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
[13] Four types of maltreatment are generally recognized, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect (including educational neglect, medical neglect, and other forms), and
emotional maltreatment.
Five reviews were relevant to this area: MacLeod and Nelson studied prevention and treatment of physical and emotional abuse and neglect (MacLeod and Nelson, 2000); physical abuse and neglect (Corcoran, 2000);
emotional maltreatment (Schrader McMillan et al., 2008); sexual abuse (Corcoran and Pillai, 2008) and physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect (Skowron and Reineman, 2005).
Thus, the present study examined the sequential development of social anxiety and depressive symptoms following the occurrence of interpersonal stressors, peer victimization, and familial
emotional maltreatment.
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.