Citation

Garbarino J. Prim. Care 1993; 20(2): 307-315.

Affiliation

Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development, Chicago, Illinois.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8356153

Abstract

This article explores the concept of psychological child maltreatment. It begins with a definition of psychological maltreatment in terms of care-giver behavior that thwarts the meeting of the needs of children. It focuses on five forms of psychological maltreatment that are of concern to the practitioner: rejecting (sending messages of rejection to the child), ignoring (being psychologically unavailable to the child), terrorizing (using intense fear as a weapon against the child), isolating (cutting the child off from normal social relationships), and corrupting (missocializing the child into self-destructive and antisocial patterns of behavior).

Language: en