Emotional abuse does not just hurt your feelings in the moment, it can quietly reshape your body for years. When you grow up ...

Though many of us find it hard to believe anyone would intentionally harm a pet, animal abuse is a shocking and tragic occurrence. Before welcoming a previously abused animal into your home, it is ...

Official reports of child abuse may overestimate the tendency of such maltreatment to run in families. Parents who were abused themselves as kids are more likely than nonabused parents to be reported ...

Certified nursing aides in residential care facilities often have weak understanding of elder abuse, new study results show. But through their direct experience in caring for seniors, aides as a group ...

I worked as a legal advocate for battered women for years, and I’d like to “fill out” your advice to LIFE a little, on the assumption that his lady-friend is telling the truth. (And I think this is ...

We’ve all heard the terms narcissism, narcissistic, and narcissist tossed around rather loosely in popular culture. Narcissism is said to be rampant amongst successful people who display aspirational ...

New research from the University of East Anglia has uncovered a significant gap in understanding of a harmful form of domestic abuse known as subtle or covert abuse. Unlike more obvious forms of ...

When we educate about domestic violence, we can tell about the power and control, define the types and patterns of abuse, and explain how people can get help. We can teach about empathy, trust, ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences LINK (Local InterNational Konnection) student group will host a special virtual session on “Understanding Community: Elder Abuse ...

Please find Part One of this series here. In the previous installment, I discussed the different kinds of abuse that elderly people often experience. Unfortunately ...