In the grocery store, a nurse overhears a teenage mother intentionally shaming and verbally reprimanding a child in public. The mother also grabbed the child's stuffed animal and tore the limbs off. From what the nurse remembers about abuse, this would be
A)
physical abuse.
B)
emotional abuse.
C)
sexual abuse.
D)
neglect.
Ans:
B
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Emotional abuse or psychological maltreatment includes methods of verbal abuse, shaming, destruction of child's personal property, harming or killing child's pet, and bullying.
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