Child maltreatment and psychosis

Child health and maltreatment.

Children who are abused have been said to have more illnesses than children who are not maltreated. The relationship between abuse and illness has been hypothesized to function in 2 ways: (1) that abuse precedes the illnesses and children from abusive homes become ill because of the damaging environment they endure, or, conversely, (2) that the illnesses precede the abuse, with the fussy behavi...

Comprehensive Reviews Child Maltreatment and Psychosis: A Return to a Genuinely Integrated Bio-Psycho-Social Model

Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses October 2008 • 235

Work, Welfare, and Child Maltreatment

This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. “Child maltreatment” encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other forms of abuse or neglect. Using state-level panel data on the numbers of reports and substantiated cases of maltreatment, we examine whether socioe...

Parental empathy and child maltreatment

Parenting and its impact on children’s well-being has been subject to scrutiny by researchers for many years. It has long been recognised that parent’s (or primary carer’s) emotional availability is as important as their physical presence and their provision of the child’s basic physical needs. A lack of emotional availability or empathy on the part of the parent can lead to detrimental effects...

Preventing Child MaltreatMent