Emotional Abuse in School or Other Childcare Settings
The following are examples of what constitutes emotional abuse:
- Overly restricting access to toilets for very young children
- Threatening to tell parents of unsatisfactory work or behaviour
- Rejecting or ignoring the child or their work
- Verbally abusing children
- Ridiculing or belittling children
- Harassing or bullying
- Labelling as “dumb” or “stupid”
- Reducing to tears
- Failure – setting tasks, which are too hard
- Physical violence
- Inducing fear or guilt
- Failure to address (colluding with) allegations or suspicions of abuse
Result: Child becomes disaffected in future years
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