Child injury, mental: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse (after child neglect and physical child abuse), accounting 17% of all cases of child abuse.
It is likely that emotional child abuse is greatly underreported, since it can be difficult to detect and difficult to document.
Emotional child abuse includes acts of commission or omission by the parents and other caregivers that could cause the child to have serious behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders. In some instances of emotional child abuse, the acts of parents or other caregivers alone, without any harm yet evident in the child's behavior or condition, are sufficient to warrant the intervention of child protective services. For example, the parents or caregivers may use extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement of a child in a dark closet.
Mental child injury is also sometimes termed psychological child abuse or verbal child abuse.
Mental child injury: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse (after child neglect and physical child abuse ...
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Injury, mental child: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse (after child neglect and physical child abuse ...
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Abandonment is parental behavior showing an intent to permanently give up all rights and claims to a child. Mental injury. Mental injury includes: