Berating typically used for controlling others
By Stefanie Scarlett
We‘ve all heard them: the couple who scream obscenities at each other in public, the overzealous parent who berates a child for failing to catch the ball during the big game.
Examples of verbal, or emotional, abuse are everywhere: Just turn on "Jerry Springer" almost any day of the week.
The Center for Nonviolence in Fort Wayne defines violence as "any words or actions that hurt and control another, cause fear or make someone feel belittled or weak and powerless," coordinator John Beams says.
It can take the form of blaming, criticizing, humiliating, name-calling, threatening or trivializing someone else as a way to gain control or exert power.
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