More than 800 professionals from social care, education and healthbackgrounds participated in the NSPCC survey, which highlighted concernsabout children being emotionally abused in the UK. More than seven outof 10 workers had dealt with cases of emotionally abused children in thelast five years.
The abuse, often initiated by a parent or carer, might involve childrenbeing hurt, upset, embarrassed or made to feel unloved.
Less than half of the people surveyed felt that they had enoughknowledge and training to deal with the abuse.
NSPCC's director and chief executive Mary Marsh said: "If we are totackle this problem successfully, we must ensure that professionals getthe proper training to make identifying emotional abuse a priority."
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