Sentences with phrase «severe form of child abuse»

Abortion is itself a severe form of child abuse.

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A healthy environment is crucial for infants» emotional well - being and future physical and mental health.1 2 Experiencing severe adversity early in life can alter a child's development and lead to toxic stress responses, impairing brain chemistry and neuronal architecture.3 For infants, severe adversity typically takes the form of caregiver neglect and physical or emotional abuse.

abusive head trauma (AHT) A preventable and severe form of physical child abuse, including shaken baby syndrome, which results in an injury to the brain of an infant or child.

The chapter covers a more psychologically severe form of abuse: attacks by someone from whom the dependent child expects protection and caring.

What the NFVS show is that if a child is exposed to the severest forms of violence by parents (e.g. use of knives or guns, kicking, fists), they are l0x more likely to become abusive adults (on their very flawed measure of abusive adult) and if they were merely exposed to «normal» abuse, they are 3 to 6x as likely to be abusive as adults (in their classification).

There is now scholarly consensus that severe alienation is abusive to children (Fidler and Bala, 2010), and it is a largely overlooked form of child abuse (Bernet et al, 2010), as child welfare and divorce practitioners are often unaware of or minimize its extent.

Some clinicians believe that severe forms of child sexual abuse are especially conducive to negative disturbances of memory such as dissociation or delayed memory.

PAS is a form of child abuse with potentially severe consequences.