Child Abuse: Emotional and Psychological Abuse

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CHILD ABUSE: EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE Content No. | Title | Page | 1. | Introduction | 3 | 2. | Description of theory | 4 | 3. | Discussion | 5-12 | 4. | Conclusion | 13 | 5. | Reference | 14-15 | Introduction What is emotional and psychological abuse? It is defined as “infliction of anguish, pain, or distress (such as the threat of abandonment or institutionalization)” (Papalia & Feldman, 2012, p. 598). This type of abuse is the most commonly conducted violence and it is not easily detected as no physical evidence is present. In most cases, emotional and psychological abuse is one of the components of physical and sexual abuse which possess harmful and long-term side effect to the abused victims. Some examples of emotional and psychological abuse are ignoring, rejecting, isolating, exploiting or corrupting, verbally assaulting, terrorizing and neglecting the child. Garbarino and Garbarino (1994) stated that emotional abuse is persistent, chronic pattern that “erodes and corrodes a child”. Even parents also unintentionally conduct emotional abuse onto their child when they said awful things to their kids, failed to give needed attention which is desired by their children as well as scaring their children with myth. In our discussion paper, we will examine into the attachment theory derived by John Bowlby by looking further into the four types of attachment, namely secure attachment, insecure attachment which include resistant attachment, avoidant attachment and disorganized-disoriented attachment and how it leads to emotional and psychological child abuse. Appropriate pictures will be illustrated to enhance the understanding of attachment theory. Attachment Theory The main theorist who proposed the attachment theory came from the joint work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991) . Derived from the

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