Childhood Emotional abuse & its impact What is emotional abuse? Emotional abuse is a behaviour that harms a child’s self-worth or emotional well-being. Examples include name-calling, shaming, rejecting, withholding love, and threatening[1]. Emotional abuse is a behavioural pattern where a person deliberately and repeatedly uses actions and words to negatively impact the mental well-being of the target person. While the physical force is absent, the emotional manipulation is core to emotional abuse[2] Overview of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Its Impact The concept of the “inner child” phenomena (a psychosynthesis of all ages from childhood to old age) continues to impact