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Emotional Abuse: Strategies For Identifying And Reporting, Jill Bryant Mar 2023

Emotional Abuse: Strategies For Identifying And Reporting, Jill Bryant

Journal of Counseling Research and Practice

Abstract

This article discusses various definitions of emotional abuse, statute difficulties that do little to support an effective report, clinical identifiers and possible long-term outcomes of emotional abuse in children and adolescents. The article closes with suggestions for advocacy efforts to improve the current challenges to better serve youth and adolescents who have been affected by this type of child maltreatment. Readers will find suggested methods for better exploring the topic of emotional abuse in sessions with child and teen clients and proposed approaches to support a stronger report when living in a state with weak or ambiguous statutes.