Neglect may be as harmful as physical and emotional abuse, according to new...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), somewhere between 25 and 50% of people may have been physically abused at some point during their childhood, an experience defined as the use of...
View ArticleWhat sort of therapy helps children affected by sexual abuse? New Cochrane...
Childhood sexual abuse has a devastating impact on many of the children and adolescents who are affected by it. It is a significant problem worldwide and has the potential to have serious negative...
View ArticleMultisystemic therapy may help prevent adolescent sexual offenders from...
The sexual abuse of children is a worldwide problem that has lasting and sometimes lifelong impacts on the child, their family and the community. There is a substantial amount of research that now...
View ArticleApproximately 1 in 6 children develop PTSD after trauma exposure
How many children develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after a traumatic experience such as an assault, a car crash, war or disaster? William Yule, one of the godfathers of child traumatic...
View ArticleChildhood abuse and adverse life events interact synergistically to produce a...
This recent study concludes that childhood abuse creates an enduring vulnerability to psychosis that is realised in the event of exposure to further stressors and risk factors, such as separation,...
View ArticleChildhood adversity linked to psychotropic drug use in later life
Andrew Jones summarises a large Finnish population-based cohort study, which finds that childhood adversities strongly predict the use of psychotropic drugs (such as antidepressants and antipsychotics)...
View ArticleThe scars of modern slavery: trafficked people with severe mental illness
Yesterday was #AntiSlaveryDay, so today we are publishing a blog by Mina Fazel who considers the findings of an historical cohort study in the Lancet Psychiatry, which explores the characteristics of...
View ArticleChildhood maltreatment and bipolar disorder
Emily Currell writes her debut Mental Elf blog about a recent Lancet Psychiatry systematic review, which reports that childhood maltreatment is associated with an unfavourable course of bipolar...
View ArticleViolence and women’s mental health: new review summarises the evidence
Nicky Lambert writes her debut Mental Elf blog on a recent review of violence and the impact that it has on women's mental health The post Violence and women’s mental health: new review summarises the...
View ArticleSuicide risk following childhood interpersonal violence
Katrina Witt considers the findings of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies, which looks at exposure to interpersonal violence in childhood, and the impact that it may have on risk of suicide in...
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