Remains one of the most difficult types of abuse or neglect to define or isolate
What is Psychological Maltreatment
100
The adult refuses to acknowledge the child's worth and the legitimacy of the child's needs
What is Rejecting
100
When parents who were abused as children or are not mature enough for parenthood tend to psychologically abuse their children
What is Parenting Skills
100
Making and or carrying out threats to do something to hurt, threaten to leave, or report partner to welfare
What is Coercion & Threats
100
Physical Repercussions of Psychological Maltreatment
What are headaches, asthma, colitis, and nervous habits
200
Violent interactions within the family or household members
What is Domestic Violence
200
the adult blocks the child from having stimulation, stifling emotional growth and intellectual development
What is Ignoring
200
When parents have additional stresses about money, work, and resources and they take their stress out on their children in the form of psychological maltreatment
What is Poverty
200
Making your partner afraid by using looks, actions, and gestures or destroying their property
What is Intimidation
200
The child acts out and strikes back, or the child deals with their anger inwardly with self-destruction or depression
What are ways children react to psychological maltreatment
300
Failure to thrive, poor adult health, and antisocial behaviors
What are Learning Impairments
300
the adult verbally assaults the child, creates a climate of fear, bullies and frightens the child, and makes the child believe that he or she is alone in the world
What is Terrorizing
300
When parents abuse substance such as drugs or alcohol and lose their sense of judgement, causing them to act in a way they would not normally act
What is Substance Abuse
300
Putting your partner down or making them feel bad about themselves by calling them names
What is Emotional Abuse
300
Other types of abuse and violence
What are psychical, sexual, emotional, economic
400
When a man treats his partner like a servant, makes all the big decisions, and defines the man's and women's roles
What is Male Privilege
400
The adult isolates the child from normal social experiences, prevents the child from forming friendships, and makes the child believe that he or she is alone in the world
What is Isolating
400
When parents have an illness such as depression or bipolar disorder that could cause them to psychologically mistreat their children
What is Mental Illness
400
Preventing your partner from getting or keeping a job, making her ask for money, or giving her an allowance
What is Economic Abuse
400
Feelings of children exposed to family violence
What are feelings of anxiety, isolation, and vulnerability
500
When a partner controls what the other partner does, who the partner sees and talks to, what they read, and where they go
What is Isolation
500
the adult encourages the child to engage in destructive and anti-social behavior, reinforces the deviance, and makes the child unfit for normal social experience
What is Corrupting
500
When parents are unable to understand realistic expectations of their child or children and may get mad at them for something they are unable to do
What is Extreme Expectations
500
Making light of the abuse and not taking your partners concerns about it seriously, saying abuse didn't happen, or shifting responsibility for abuse behavior
What is Minimizing, Denying, and Blaming
500
A cause of psychological maltreatment that makes children feel as if they are an extra burden the family