One study compared brain MRI scans of people who had a history of
parental verbal abuse in childhood with scans of those who did not have a history of abuse.
Not exact matches
Likewise, young children exposed to
verbal abuse may feel more secure than older children who can understand better when
parental aggression is not directed toward them.
Sticks, Stones, and Hurtful Words: Relative Effects of Various Forms of Childhood Maltreatment Teicher, Samson, Polcari, & McGreenery American Journal of Psychiatry, 163 (6), 2006 Examines the impact of
parental verbal aggression, witnessing domestic violence, physical
abuse, and sexual
abuse, by themselves and in combination, on psychiatric symptoms.
Perinatal depression may be comorbid with marital discord, divorce, family violence (
verbal and / or physical), substance use and
abuse, child
abuse and neglect, failure to implement the injury - prevention components from anticipatory guidance (eg, car safety seats and electrical plug covers), 10 failure to implement preventive health practices for the child (eg, Back to Sleep), 10, — , 13 and difficulty managing chronic health conditions such as asthma or disabilities in the young child.11, 14 Families with a depressed parent (ie, any
parental depression) overutilize health care and emergency facilities.14 Studies of families of a person with major depression that began before 30 years of age demonstrate that the parent, siblings, and children are 3 to 5 times more likely to have major depression themselves.
Scales used to assess inconsistent maternal enforcement of rules, loud arguments between the parents, low maternal educational aspirations for the child, maternal possessiveness, maternal use of guilt to control the child, maternal anger toward the child,
parental cigarette smoking,
parental supervision of the child, paternal assistance to the child's mother, paternal role fulfillment, and maternal
verbal abuse were obtained from the DPI and instruments assessing maternal child - rearing attitudes and behaviors that were administered during the maternal interviews.28 - 31 Measures of maternal punishment,
parental affection toward the child,
parental time spent with the child, and poor
parental communication with the child were administered during the maternal and offspring interviews using scales assessing
parental warmth, parent - child communication, and
parental support and availability.28, 29,31 Data regarding
parental home maintenance and maternal behavior during the interview were provided by interviewer observations.
Harsh
parental punishment, low maternal educational aspirations for the youth, maternal possessiveness, maternal
verbal abuse, and childhood physical and sexual
abuse were associated with increased offspring risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after all of the covariates were controlled (Table 2).
There is no PA when true
parental abuse, neglect or the witnessing of
abuse,
verbal or physical, is present.
Johnston, 1998, described it as a relationship marked by SOME or all of the following
parental behaviors: high degrees of anger and distrust; incidents of
verbal abuse; intermittent physical aggression; ongoing difficulty in communicating about the children» ongoing difficulty cooperating in the care of the children; sabotage of children's relationship with the other parent.
Substance
abuse risk reduction:
Verbal mediational training for children by
parental and nonparental models.