Child Safety Invalidation

Invalidation

Psychological invalidation is a term that is used to describe the act of belittling a person and making them feel less important. Sometimes, it can be regarded as a form of emotional abuse that does not take into consideration what the other person feels, thinks or experiences.

This training module will be available this month on NGO Training for those who provide support to our child safety clients. We also welcome Danielle as our new coordinator and look forward to assisting her in her new role The key areas of invalidation include: • Ordering you to look differently • Denying your perception • Trying to make you feel guilty • Trying to isolate you • Minimising your feelings • Using reason • Judging and labelling you • Turning things around • Questioning yourself • How you should feel • Defending the other person • Negating, denial and confusion • Sarcasm and mocking • Guilt trips • Using cliches • Talking about you • Showing intolerance