Sentences with phrase «significant emotional harm»

There have been many studies that have proven that the act of arguing in front of children causes significant emotional harm.

Sometimes, another person's conduct can be so outrageous that it causes significant emotional harm.

Iowa law requires that the court must consider the best interest of the child and order a custody arrangement that will give the child the chance for maximum continuing physical and emotional contact with both parents after the parents have separated and dissolved the marriage, and which will encourage parents to share the rights and responsibilities of raising the child unless physical harm or significant emotional harm to the child, other children, or a parent is likely to occur.

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He wastes huge amounts of time on pointless activities, suffers emotional harm under a bizarre worldview that accuses him of being inherently evil, and feels forced to throw away significant amounts of money to fund the perpetuation of the belief system his is enslaved by.

Drawing on psychology, psychiatry, sports journalism and neuroscience, she argues that bullying done by adults — namely emotional abuse — does such significant harm it should join sexual and physical abuse in criminal code.

To be eligible for the study, participants must have met the following: the experience of and emotional response to a trauma that met the DSM - IV Criterion A for PTSD; the presence of several of the major symptoms in re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal of PTSD when not using cannabis; significant relief of several major PTSD symptoms when using cannabis; and lack of any harm or problems in functioning resulting from cannabis use.

In this Act: «abuse», of a child or young person, means -... /... (d) emotional abuse (including psychological abuse) if -(i) the child or young person has seen or heard the physical, sexual or psychological abuse of a person with whom the child or young person has a domestic relationship, the exposure to which has caused or is causing significant harm to the wellbeing or development of the child or young person;... /...

This, to our mind, is a landmark judgment, with the court, in this instance, placing the emotional harm caused by parental alienation on an equal footing with physical abuse, and accepting that the harm done to the child met the threshold criteria of significant harm.

The criteria for the latter is «significant harm» which covers physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect.