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Question: What are five of the seven types of psychological maltreatment? What is the underlying childrearing problem across all the types?

Answer 1

Types of psychological maltreatment are as follows:

1. Rejecting: in this form, the legitimate need of the child to form a relationship with his parents is rejected. The child constantly fears that he would either be abandoned or alienated from his parents.
2. Terrorising: the child is constantly assaulted verbally as well as bullied and he becomes terrified of the parent. The child is brutalised and the child is stripped off any positive feelings for the parent.
3. Ignoring: the parent is not available to the child from an emotional point of view and this would lead to make him feel of abandonment and neglect. This may especially happen in the case of divorced parents, where rejection might be in more subtle forms.
4. Isolating: the child gets isolated as the parent would deprive him of opportunities that would not allow him social relations. In extreme conditions, this might hamper the independence and autonomy of the child.
5. Corrupting: the child begins to be alienated by the parent for manipulation, aggression as well as lying. The child also gets corrupted by discussions that include se-xuality in deviant forms.