Brain science documents that verbal abuse can be destructive.
Ignoring, refusing feedback, ostracizing, and neglecting may also damage the brain.and is not taken as seriously by child welfare, clinical, and judicial systems. The authors characterize verbal abuse as “shouting, yelling, denigrating the child, and verbal threats.”
In 2019, the definition of verbal abuse was refined by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children to show that this kind of abuse weaponizes both verbal and non-verbal strategies to spurn a target.
This is one of hundreds of examples of physical harm to the brain from bullying and abuse, including verbal abuse, which does not touch the body. In the last 20 years, scientists have documented the “neurological scars” that all forms of bullying and abuse can leave on the brain.
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