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    Although all therapists are aware of the problem of childhood emotional abuse, it is possible that only a few therapists understand its scope. Emotional abuse is harder to detect than other forms of abuse because it is more subtle. When Child Protective Services (CPS) conducts family evaluations, it is the most difficult form of abuse to prove because parents are very open about the subject and emotional abuse leaves no evidence physics behind it. However, it certainly influences the child's self-esteem, promotes feelings of guilt, insecurity and creates the inability to establish stable relationships in adulthood. Although some behavioral disorders are linked to emotional abuse, it is not possible to predict it correctly because the patterns can differ significantly as each child shows different outcomes. Emotional abuse is often considered an appropriate form of disciplinary action, but even excessive verbal abuse can have negative consequences, so parents seemingly bear most of the responsibility for their inability to raise their child without resorting to violence. Besides educating parents, other lines of action will be necessary because rates of emotional abuse and other types of child maltreatment are extremely high. The problem therefore requires urgent action to prevent further harm to the healthy psychological development of children. However, the entire responsibility should not fall on mental health professionals, but should be distributed equitably between society and all social agents who determine public opinions and acceptable behavior. The best approach to preventing psychological abuse in childhood is to influence several social factors that prevent and increase...... middle of document ...... standing, adult women who demonstrate violence against their children are able to abuse their children. They therefore have parental power over their children and therefore have the responsibility to resort to violence against their children (Damant et al., 2011). The fact that they are victims themselves does not condone their actions against their children. As psychologically developed and responsible beings, both parents take responsibility for interactions within the family. Understanding the complexity of family structure and dynamic interpersonal relationships is key to proposing and conducting simultaneous interventions across multiple dimensions to prevent child maltreatment, but isolation of single factors is not possible. Without a comprehensive understanding of how all factors interact and contribute to an abusive environment, a tunnel vision will only solve an insignificant part of the problem as a whole..