Child Torture, Child Abuse, and a System of Adverse Parenting

Potentially abusive parenting and treatment practices related to “holding therapy” were rejected in 2006 by a joint task force between American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the American Psychological Association (Chaffin et al. 2006; Mercer 2019). The task force report included references to a practice associated with holding therapy, sometimes called …

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