Reporting Child Abuse - Educators

Felicia F. Romero, in "The Educator's Role in Reporting the Emotional Abuse of Children" (Journal of Instructional Psychology, vol. 27, no. 3, September 2000), pointed out that, whereas teachers attending in-service programs learn the behavioral indicators of neglect and physical and sexual abuse, they do not receive much information about emotional, or psychological, abuse. Victims of emotional abuse suffer "injuries" that are not visible, and educators may not realize that the consequences of such abuse are more severe than those from other forms of maltreatment.