Background Childhood maltreatment is one of the most important preventable risk factors for
a wide variety of psychiatric disorders. Further, when psychiatric disorders emerge in …

Child maltreatment has the potential to alter a child's neurodevelopmental trajectory and
substantially increase the risk of later psychiatric disorders, as well as to deleteriously impact …

There is a well-established association between childhood maltreatment and later poor
mental health and increasing recognition that we need to find ways to support children …

What is maltreatment, what exactly is it doing to our children, and how can we help them?
These are the questions we address in this volume. Thanks to research on the outcomes of …

Child maltreatment exemplifies a toxic relational environment that poses significant risks for
maladaptation across biological and psychological domains of development. Research on …

The varied maladaptive behavioral, social, medical, and psychiatric outcomes associated
with maltreatment in childhood have been extensively documented in the extant empirical …

In this article we review neuroscience perspectives on child maltreatment to facilitate
understanding of the rapid integration of neuroscience knowledge into the academic …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of the historical issues accompanying the study of
child maltreatment and address advances, as well as challenges, that have emerged over …

Background Childhood maltreatment is the most important preventable cause of
psychopathology accounting for about 45% of the population attributable risk for childhood …

The neurobiological mechanisms by which childhood maltreatment heightens vulnerability
to psychopathology remain poorly understood. It is likely that a complex interaction between …