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.
Safety - being exposed to «mean kids,»
witnessing social or
physical aggression, feeling targeted by administrators or labeled as a troublemaker