Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Emotional Abuse

Nonphysical abuse as defined as a pattern of behavior in which one person deliberately and repeatedly subjects another to nonphysical acts that are detrimental to behavioral and affective functioning and overall mental well-being. (APA Dictionary of Psychology, accessed 4/21/2020).

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Nonphysical abuse as defined as a pattern of behavior in which one person deliberately and repeatedly subjects another to nonphysical acts that are detrimental to behavioral and affective functioning and overall mental well-being. (APA Dictionary of Psychology, accessed 4/21/2020).

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  • Psychological Abuse
  • Psychological Violence
  • Abuse, Emotional
  • Abuse, Psychological
  • Emotional Abuses
  • Psychological Abuses
  • Psychological Violences
  • Violence, Psychological

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Indexed with the subheadings economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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2021

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  1. I01w.880w.735w.305w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Emotional Abuse. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000085202. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000085202
  2. Emotional Abuse. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_abuse
  3. Emotional Abuse. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339137