NEW PUBLICATION from the National Child Protection Clearing House.

The article focuses on the paper "Emotional Abuse: The Forgotten Form of Child Maltreatment," by Adam Tomison and Joe Tucci. This is the working title of issues paper no.8, the next in the series of issues papers from the National Child Protection Clearing House at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. This paper describes the current state of knowledge surrounding the relatively neglected area of the emotional abuse of children. Tomison and Tucci describe the history and development of definitions of emotional abuse, paying particular attention to comparing and contrasting emotional and psychological abuse. The paper includes overviews of research investigating aspects of emotional abuse - specifically, children's witnessing of spousal violence, the mislabeling of child maltreatment cases as emotional abuse, and the traumatisation of children in out-of-home-care. The paper concludes with a discussion of the prevention of emotional abuse and an outline of some future directions for research.