1. Emotional Abuse By Alyssa Dixon and Will Hughson http://s2.hubimg.com/u/1230797_f520.jpg
2. Definition Emotional abuse is a series of repeated incidents - whether intentional or not - that insults, threatens, isolates, degrades, humiliates, and/or controls another person. http://www.kalimunro.com/article_emotional_abuse.html
3. We had 100 students take a survey on some questions about emotional abuse, here are our results….
4. We Asked… Do you believe that people who are victims of emotional abuse will tend to emotionally abuse others in the future?
6. Have you ever abused someone with your words and actions?
7. Did you ever witness someone being emotionally abused?
8. Did you ever stick up for a person being emotionally abused?
9. Do you think that emotional abuse is harder to detect due to the fact that there is no physical evidence?
10. Do you think people that are often emotionally abused are also physically abused?
11. *In our research, it stated that “ it is not uncommon for emotional abuse to develop into physical abuse over time.” When we asked our surveyers, many disagreed.
12. *In the article, “What Is an Abusive Relationship?” it stated that “Abusers can also be parents, stepparents, other caregivers or family members, or school bullies.” *From our survey results, it shows that many people have emotionally abused others.
13. Related to Twisted… In the book Twisted, Tyler is emotionally abused by his classmates, Chip in particular, his teachers, and worst of all, his father. Many of the characteristics of an emotionally abused person, match Tyler’s personality. For example, he keep’s to himself a lot. This is one of the characteristics we found in our research.
