missocialize
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[edit]missocialize (third-person singular simple present missocializes, present participle missocializing, simple past and past participle missocialized)
- To socialize inappropriately; to treat in a manner that encourages socially inappropriate behavior.
- 1992, J. Patrick Gannon, Soul Survivors: A New Beginning for Adults Abused as Children, page 36:
- Corrupting refers to things that parents do that "missocialize" the child in some way by encouraging and reinforcing more antisocial or deviant patterns of behavior.
- 2009, Monica L. McCoy, Stefanie M. Keen, Child Abuse and Neglect, page 92:
- A parent could maltreat a child through neglect by simply failing to provide age-appropriate experiences, or could deliberately missocialize the child by teaching the child to behave in ways that are inappropriate.
- 2015, Gerald P. Koocher, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions, page 239:
- Further, some therapists have experienced appalling supervisory models, involving sexual advances and other improper behaviors, when they were students, which could missocialize them even before they begin to practice independently (Glaser & Thorpe, 1986; Pope, Levenson, & Schover, 1980).