Prevention of child maltreatment: strategic targeting of a curvilinear relationship between adversity and psychiatric impairment

Date

2018

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World psychiatry

Abstract

Introduction Child maltreatment – which includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse as well as neglect – is the single most influential known cause of lifetime mental health impairment that is preventable (the other high‐impact causes being primarily genetic), with conservative estimates of prevalence of about 15% in high‐income countries1, 2.

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Keywords

child abuse, physical abuse, lifetime, long term effects, prevention

Citation

Constantino, J. N. (2018). Prevention of child maltreatment: strategic targeting of a curvilinear relationship between adversity and psychiatric impairment. World psychiatry, 17(1), 103.

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