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Does child maltreatment cause
mental illness in later life?
- Types of abuse
- Physical abuse 5-10% prevalence
- Sexual abuse males 4-8% p abuse and
11-16% non-p abuse, females 7-12% p
abuse and 23-34% non-p abuse
- psychological/emotional abuse- 11% prevalence
- neglect
- intimate-partner violence
- Physical abuse 5-10% prevalence
- predictors of child maltreatment
- female
- disabled
- mixed/multicultural heritage
- parental characteristics
- low income
- low parental education
- alcohol and drug use
- mental health problems
- exposure to maltreatment as a child
- low income
- female
- potential long term consequences of child maltreatment
- low educational achievement
- economic consequences
- crime and violence
- mental health outcomes
- increases risk of behaviour problems
- anxiety/depression
- PTSD
- suicide
- alcohol problems in adolecence and adulthood
- increases risk of behaviour problems
- low educational achievement
- Epigenetics
- McGowan et al. found in a post-mortem
study that expression of a
neuron-specific glucocorticoid receptor
in suicide victims. He found that suicide
(no abuse) was not significantly
different from controls, and that suicide
(abused) had significantly lower
expression of the gene for the receptor
- brain changes
- altered symmetry in
frontal lobes and
superior temporal gyrus
- changes in neuronal density
- reduction of volume in total
brain, corpus callosum,
amygdala and hippocampus
- changes in cortisol and
noreadrenaline levels
- altered symmetry in
frontal lobes and
superior temporal gyrus
- McGowan et al. found in a post-mortem
study that expression of a
neuron-specific glucocorticoid receptor
in suicide victims. He found that suicide
(no abuse) was not significantly
different from controls, and that suicide
(abused) had significantly lower
expression of the gene for the receptor
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