The charity received 10,009 calls over the last year about children being subjected to emotional abuse, around three times the 2009/10 figure of 3,341.
Emotional abuse is the most common form of child abuse the charity is contacted about, including reports of parents telling their children they "hate them" or "wished they were dead".
Threats of violence and children being blamed for wider family problems, such as unemployment, were among other incidents of emotional abuse reported.
Three quarters (75 per cent) of calls were considered so serious by the charity that they were referred to police or children's services, according to its annual child protection report How Safe Are Our Children?.
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