Physical Punishment as Discipline

A developmental environment where physical force was used as a primary method of correction, control, or behaviour management. Discipline may have been experienced as painful, frightening, or unpredictable rather than instructive or reparative. Over time, this can shape heightened threat sensitivity, confusion between care and harm, difficulty trusting authority figures, and learned associations between mistakes, bodily danger, and shame.

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