A new psychological investigation suggests that emotional abuse in childhood serves as the primary driver for a debilitating ...

Cruel words can leave a mark on a child –– and may have as much of an impact as physical abuse, new research has found . People who experienced physical abuse as a child were at a 50% increased risk ...

Emotional abuse is a quiet, frequently unrecognized and therefore unnamed, form of abuse that can, nevertheless, have devastating consequences for the abused. Further, emotional abuse can lead to and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you hear the word "abuse," some form of physical abuse, verbal abuse or sexual abuse may come to mind. But people may not ...

A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as damaging to long-term mental well-being as physical abuse, if not more so. This groundbreaking research highlights the need to ...