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    The statistics are heartbreaking--nearly 700,000 children are abused every year. Emotional abuse is the making of a child to lose their self worth, and affects them mentally, causing extreme feelings of pain the victim is having to go through. Most of the victims are females, some say that’s because females are more sensitive. Those of the abusers that are males, nearly fifty percent of them were not the victim’s biological father. Imagine hearing a mother/father say her/his child isn’t worth the

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    Emotional Abuse The effects of emotional abuse are often silent. The wounds of verbal and physiological abuse leave scars. Most times the effects are overlooked, misread, or treated as weak. Just because emotional abuse is less visible than physical abuse does not change the long-lasting impact it has on a person. There are six well known types of emotional abuse; rejecting, ignoring, terrorizing, isolating, corrupting, and exploiting. Other types of abuse are usually easy to identify because

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    Emotional child abuse involves putting a child in very stressful and psychologically damaging situations. Emotional abuse involves coercive, demeaning, or very distant behavior by a parent or caretaker that interferes with a child's normal mental or social development. Harm to the child may or may not be intended. Emotional abuse may consist of actions that hurt a child's well-being or failure to meet a child's emotional needs. Such actions or neglect on the part of a caretaker can cause serious

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    students reported emotional and/or physical abuse in their romantic relationships, with the effects of emotional abuse being worse on the individual than the effects of physical abuse (2010). The study results showed that the recipients of emotional abuse often suffered from depression, lower self-esteem, a reduce sense of independence, fearfulness, and an increased risk of suicidal thoughts. Another study conducted by Karakut & Silver revealed that younger men who experience emotional abuse in interpersonal

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    Transition- This poem is about emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is the ongoing emotional maltreatment or emotional neglect of a child. Attention According to Childabuse.com every 2 seconds a child is abused, and 5 out of every 6 cases of abuse go unreported. If I were to ask the human population what they think the most common type of abuse is, most of them would guess physical or sexual. But did you know it's neither of those things, it's emotional abuse and neglect. The purpose of my speech is

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    The Emotionally Abuse Woman by Beverly Engel, a therapist with sixteen years of experience and a victim of emotional abuse herself, is a book geared towards women who are involved with friends, family members, bosses or any one significant in their life who is emotionally abuse towards them. Her goal of those reading who are also in emotional abusive relationships is to share her knowledge and experience of others to educate the abused woman, leaving her with skills on how to cope, move on and avoid

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    of child emotional abuse is often a difficult topic to discuss as well as treat. Emotional abuse can be very difficult to recognize since it is generally a relationship between a child and a caretaker and not a specific incident or series of events that can be pointed to as abuse. In fact, emotional and psychological maltreatment have no definition that is universally agreed upon, therefore, the two terms are often used interchangeably. Emotional abuse is the most common form of child abuse. While

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    alone, there are many people on a daily basis who suffer from verbal-emotional abuse. In today’s society too many of our children live in homes where they face verbal-emotional abuse on a regular basis. In this paper we will discuss what verbal emotional abuse is, why so many children face verbal-emotional abuse and how to tell what the signs of verbal emotional abuse are in order to assist a child in need. Verbal emotional abuse is defined in many ways because there are so many underlying meanings

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    Service type: Information/advice/referral 1. - Housing: Sharon narrated the emotional abuse she is receiving by her housemate. Sharon stated to be afraid of Vanessa not only because she uses alcohol and smoke marijuana, but also because she suffers from a mood disorder and she can be at times verbal abuse. In addition, Vanessa’s son also uses drugs and brings friends inside the house that are affected by drugs. Sharon spends most of the time in her room and when she is in the kitchen, Vanessa gives

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    Physical and Emotional/Psychological abuse. The two types of abuse I will be looking at will be physical and Emotional/Psychological abuse as they both differ from each other. I will be looking at two different case studies where one will be looking at the physical abuse and then the other case study will be different and look at the emotional/psychological abuse. Physical abuse. My first case study is about a woman whose name is Dorothy and is 70 years of age. She is female and suspect of abuse, which

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