Emotional Abuse Is a Silent Epidemic — Especially in Parental Alienation Emotional abuse is one of the most harmful yet invisible forms of trauma a child can experience. When it takes the shape of parental alienation, where one parent manipulates a child into rejecting the other, it leaves long-lasting wounds that shape everything from identity…
The Power and Control Wheel, referenced by CAFCASS, represents different tactics used by abusers to gain power over their victims, regardless of gender.