From the teachings of Pia Mellody
Physical: (Use of implement s, face slapping, hair pulling, having a child physically nurture a parent and intrusive procedures.)
Physical SEXUAL: (Sex acts, sexual touching, sexual kissing and hugging, voyerism, exhibitionism, verbal sexual trauma, failure to have sexual boundary in the presence of a child, and child as a witness to sexual trauma.)
Emotional SEXUAL: (Involving emotional enmeshment by the parent or major caregiver.)
Intellectual: (Attacks to the shaming of or over control of the child's expression of thought)
Emotional: (Shaming of a child's expression of emotion. Refusal to let child express feelings or improper expression of feelings by the parent or major caregiver.)
Spiritual: (Religious addiction of the parent or major caregiver, trauma at the hands of a religious caregiver, parent acting like he/she is a god or goddess of the family, indulgence or false empowerment of the child, and moral perfection and obedience demanded from the child.
Failure to provide adequate:
food, clothing and/or shelter
financial support or information
From Pia Mellody's writings and lectures,
and professional training with "The Meadows" treatment facility.
by Mellody, Miller and Miller