Hidden Harm And Emotional Neglect
From Inside The Consulting Room - Understanding the Child Behind the Behaviour by Kim Lee
May 1, 2026 · 12 min
About this episode
The episode discusses emotional neglect as a hidden safeguarding concern affecting children's inner worlds.
The harm that changes a child most isn’t always loud or dramatic, it can be the quiet absence that nobody knows how to name. We close the Hidden Harm series by looking at emotional neglect as a hidden safeguarding concern: not what is done to a child, but what isn’t there when it needs to be there. When feelings aren’t consistently recognized, acknowledged, and held, a child can look “fine” on the outside while organizing their entire inner world around what’s missing. We talk through ...
People in this episode
Host: Kim Lee
Topics covered
- emotional neglect
- child safeguarding
- hidden harm
- mental health
- child behavior
Keywords
- emotional neglect
- child behavior
- safeguarding
- mental health
- hidden harm
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