Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or mental abuse or psychological violence, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting...

categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult...

Prisoner abuse is the mistreatment of persons while they are under arrest or incarcerated. Prisoner abuse can include physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual...

is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral, gestured, and written language directed to a victim. Verbal abuse can include the...

79% of sexually abused children exhibit psychological symptoms. The risk of harm is greater if the abuser is a relative, if the abuse involves intercourse...

Sibling abuse includes the physical, psychological, or sexual abuse of one sibling by another. More often than not, the younger sibling is abused by the...

response to cocaine cues. Sexual abuse by a family member is a form of incest, which can result in severe long-term psychological trauma, especially in the case...

Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child...

Psychological torture, mental torture or emotional torture is a type of torture that relies primarily on psychological effects and only secondarily on...

can also cause psychological trauma. Long-term exposure to situations such as extreme poverty or other forms of abuse, such as verbal abuse, exist independently...