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eight-year-old sara's mom has repeatedly called her fat and worthless, which has caused sara to become withdrawn at home and in school. these actions are best characterized as

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Emotional abuse.

Emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior in which the perpetrator insults, humiliates, and makes the child the subject of jokes, or using sarcasm to hurt a child.
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