Emotional abuse is a pattern of hurtful messages – building parenting skills could help prevent it
- Written by: Divna Haslam, Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
Unsplash/Luke Pennystan, CC BYWhen people think about child maltreatment, many think of physical or sexual abuse. But a key finding of our Australian Child Maltreatment Study, published last month, is that emotional abuse is widespread and associated with similar harms as sexual abuse.
It is an overlooked type of child maltreatment that requires...
