Sentences with phrase «emotional threat to your children»

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The trust that children develop as a result of having their emotional needs met sets a foundation of parent - child interaction that doesn't have to rely on threats, shame, punishment, rewards, or other forms of coercion for behavior control.

''... not only is there a preponderance of evidence that there is no academic benefit from retention in its many forms, but there also appear to be threats to the social - emotional development of the child subjected to such practices.»

If you genuinely feel that your children's other parent is a threat to their physical or emotional safety, call a lawyer.

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

They are still afraid of accusations that they don't care about the planet, the children, the future or any of the other emotional threats used to steal the moral high ground.

«Domestic violence can also include threats to harm children, other members of a family, pets and property... Domestic violence can also take the form of psychological / emotional abuse, verbal abuse, and economic / financial abuse.»

As well as physical violence it can also involve emotional abuse, the destruction of property, isolation from friends, family and other potential sources of support, threats to others including children, stalking, and control over access to money, personal items, food, transportation and the telephone.

Such factors include evidence of violence or threats of violence against the child, emotional harm, a child's request to limit or deny visits, a non-custodial parent's mental illness or substance abuse, the emotional damage caused by visiting a parent in jail or a parent's threats to abduct the child.

Even in instances in which the non-custodial parent poses some threat to the child's emotional or physical well - being, the court will still usually grant visitation, albeit under close supervision.

Children exposed to emotional abuse such as name - calling, manipulation and threats often suffer from poor self - esteem, worry, separation anxiety, clinginess and fear of failure, explains the website of Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse, a safe haven for persons experiencing domestic violence.

Even in instances where the non-custodial parent poses some threat to the child's emotional or physical well - being, the court will still usually grant visitation, albeit under close supervision.

Significant advances have been made in assessment methods and age - appropriate diagnostic criteria for emotional disorders in young children.29 - 31 Differentiation between symptoms of individual anxiety disorders (e.g., separation anxiety, generalized anxiety) has been found as early as two years of age.6 One novel assessment tool for children aged 3 - 5, the Preschool Anxiety Scale — Revised, captures these various dimensions of anxiety symptoms.32 In addition, attentional bias to threat has been identified as a possible candidate for assessment of risk for anxiety disorders.33

Parental modelling of fearful behaviour and avoidant strategies is also likely to increase a child's risk of developing later emotional health problems.6 An anxious parent may be more likely to model anxious behaviour or may provide threat and avoidant information to their child, increasing the child's risk of anxiety disorder.

There also is sufficient research to conclude that child care does not pose a serious threat to children's relationships with parents or to children's emotional development.1, 2,9 A recent study of preschool centres in England produced somewhat similar results: children who started earlier had somewhat higher levels of anti-social or worried behaviour — an effect reduced but not eliminated by higher quality.17 In the same study, an earlier start in care was not found to affect other social measures (independence and concentration, cooperation and conformity, and peer sociability), but was found to improve cognitive development.

Kentucky courts will deny or limit visitation only when visitation is a serious threat to the child's physical, mental, moral or emotional health.

Other means of abuse are using the children to maintain control, such as threatening to take children away or using the children to relay messages to the other parent; using economic abuse such as not allowing one partner to know about or have access to family income or giving an allowance and expecting receipts for all purchases; using emotional abuse such as putting one partner down, making them feel crazy or making them feel guilty for other's inappropriate behavior; using threats and coercion to make one partner drop charges or do illegal acts.

Given the highly limited capacities of infants / young children to assess risk, Dr. Van der Kolk recognizes that the lack of physical and / or emotional safety quickly rises to the level of a subjective survival threat (annihilation anxiety), even though the objective nature of the event may not actually be at that level.

However, visitation can be denied if a court determines, after a hearing, that the parent poses a threat to the physical, mental, moral or emotional health of the child.

Features associated with an anxious, inhibited temperament including emotional reactivity, threat processing biases, and an avoidant coping style may also increase child vulnerability to the impact of adversity.

Anxiety is an emotional disorder involving the experience of fear and danger that is either irrational and / or disproportionate to the perceived threat and has a negative impact on one or more areas of children's normal functioning and / or psychosocial development (e.g., Fonseca and Perrin, 2011).