Words Can Be Weapons

Background

The Centre for Psychological Research, Shenyang, was a government body concerned about the rise of juvenile crime. Their studies had shown a strong link between juvenile crime and childhood emotional abuse. Their psychologists believed that children subjected to verbal abuse could suffer from even more serious psychiatric problems in later life than children subjected to physical violence. Their brief was to get the parents and teachers of Shenyang to take verbal abuse seriously, and understand that it could have serious consequences for their children in later life.