title: Psychological child maltreatment. A developmental view.
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).
authors.affiliation: Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garbarino
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004777:Environment; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010819:Physician's Role; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D012951:Socialization