missocialize

English

Alternative forms

• missocialise

Etymology

mis- +‎ socialize

Verb

missocialize (third-person singular simple present missocializes, present participle missocializing, simple past and past participle missocialized)

1. 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).