Their findings included physical and psychological maltreatment of students and restricted communications with parents.

BBC

This suggests that psychological maltreatment may be the most common form of abuse inflicted on kids.

CNN: Belittling kids as harmful as beating, study finds

Psychological maltreatment can include terrorizing, belittling or neglecting a child, the pediatrician authors say.

CNN: Belittling kids as harmful as beating, study finds

That's the message of a trio of pediatricians, who write this week in the journal Pediatrics with a clarion call to other family doctors and child specialists: stay alert to the signs of psychological maltreatment.

CNN: Belittling kids as harmful as beating, study finds