Psychological maltreatment refers to emotionally harmful actions that can deeply impact a person's mental and emotional well-being. It involves behaviors like constant criticism, humiliation, rejection, or manipulation that can cause significant psychological distress and damage to someone's self-esteem.
Full definition
Ideally, the pediatrician who evaluates a child
for psychological maltreatment will be able to demonstrate or opine that psychological acts or omissions of the caregiver have resulted (or may result) in significant damage to the child's mental or physical health.
This disdain and disrespect for the targeted parent in front of the child is another form of
psychological maltreatment as it permanently affects their view of the targeted parent, which transfers to their view of themselves.
Results reveal that
psychological maltreatment by partners is an especially potent experience that occurs along with greater romantic hassles and more interpersonal sensitivity.
Community approaches, such as home visitation, have been shown to be highly successful in changing the behavior of parents at risk for perpetrating maltreatment.18 Targeted programs for mothers with affective disorders and substance abuse have also been shown to be useful in
preventing psychological maltreatment.19, 20
Says Joan T. Kloth - Zanard, RSS, LC: «This book is just one of many textbooks used to teach students and professionals
about psychological maltreatment and the categories that make it up.
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).
Case vignettes in Part II
illustrate psychological maltreatment of the child in severe PAS, a case in which Child Protective Services was mobilized to bring pressure on the alienating parent to reverse the PAS, and the use of PAS testimony in criminal proceedings against a falsely accused parent.
When you add all these signs up, it is easy to see how Aggressive Parenting, can be classified as child
psychological maltreatment in a divorce situation.
It's also referred to as
psychological maltreatment.
Child abuse is the physical or
psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect.
The majority (62 percent) had a history of
psychological maltreatment, and nearly a quarter (24 percent) of all the cases were exclusively psychological maltreatment, which the study defined as care - giver inflicted bullying, terrorizing, coercive control, severe insults, debasement, threats, overwhelming demands, shunning and / or isolation.
Psychological maltreatment that occurred alongside physical or sexual abuse was associated with significantly more severe and far - ranging negative outcomes than when children were sexually and physically abused and not psychologically abused, the study found.
Among the three types of abuse,
psychological maltreatment was most strongly associated with depression, general anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, attachment problems and substance abuse.
Researchers used the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data Set to analyze data from 5,616 youths with lifetime histories of one or more of three types of abuse:
psychological maltreatment (emotional abuse or emotional neglect), physical abuse and sexual abuse.
Child abuse is the physical or
psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP),
psychological maltreatment of children constitutes the most common form of child abuse and neglect.
(2005) In Family Violence Across the Lifespan: An Introduction View Abstract Considers the dynamics of
psychological maltreatment and describes current knowledge about the risk factors, negative effects, and intervention strategies associated with this form of abuse.
Ideally, the pediatrician will be able to describe the child's baseline emotional, developmental, educational, and physical characteristics before the onset of
psychological maltreatment and document the subsequent adverse consequences of psychological maltreatment.
Pediatricians should be aware of risk factors in children and families that may predispose to
psychological maltreatment and should recognize the types and consequences of psychological maltreatment.
This technical report provides practicing pediatricians with definitions and risk factors for
psychological maltreatment and details how pediatricians can prevent, recognize, and report psychological maltreatment.
Often it is a child's characteristics or emotional difficulties that first raise concern of
psychological maltreatment.
Because the major consequences of
psychological maltreatment may take years to develop, delayed reporting of suspected psychological maltreatment (in an effort to document these adverse consequences more completely) may not be in the child's best interests.
Psychological maltreatment may result in a myriad of long - term consequences for the child victim.14 A chronic pattern of psychological maltreatment destroys a child's sense of self and personal safety.