Although all therapists are aware of the problem of childhood emotional abuse, few therapists may understand the scope of the problem. Emotional maltreatment is more difficult to detect than other forms of abuse because it is more subtle. When Child Protective Services (CPS) conducts family evaluations, it is the most difficult form of abuse to prove because parents are very open about the topic and emotional abuse leaves no physical evidence behind. However, it certainly affects the child's self-esteem, promotes guilt, insecurity and creates the inability to build stable relationships during adulthood. Although some behavioral disorders are linked to emotional abuse, it is not possible to correctly predict this because the patterns can deviate significantly as each child shows different results. Emotional abuse is often considered an appropriate form of disciplinary measure, but the excessive practice of verbal abuse can also create negative outcomes, whereby parents seemingly bear most of the blame due to their inability to raise their child without resort to violence. In addition to parental education, other courses of action will be needed because rates of emotional abuse and other types of child abuse are extremely high, so the issue requires urgent action to prevent further damage to children's healthy psychological development. However, the entire responsibility should not fall on mental health professionals, but should be distributed equally between society and all social agents who determine public opinions and acceptable forms of behavior. The best approach to prevent childhood emotional abuse is to influence several social factors to prevent and increase it. parental power over their children, therefore they have the responsibility to use violence on children (Damant et al., 2011). The fact that they are victims themselves does not approve of their actions against their children. As psychologically developed and responsible beings, both parents take responsibility for interactions within the family. Understanding the complexity of the family structure and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships is the key to proposing and conducting simultaneous interventions from different dimensions to prevent child abuse, but the isolation of individual factors is not possible. Without a broad understanding of how all factors interact and contribute to a violent environment, a narrow focus will only solve an insignificant part of the entire problem..
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