Background Depression is often reported as co-occurring with post-traumatic stress disorder
in children and adolescents, but its prevalence within trauma-exposed child and adolescent …

Although child sexual abuse (CSA) is recognized as a serious violation of human well-being
and of the law, no community has yet developed mechanisms that ensure that none of their …

In recent decades, social work and other social science research disciplines have become
increasingly reliant on large secondary data sets, which have increased in both number and …

Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as child abuse and neglect impact
a child's socioemotional development. Drawing from the methods employed in the Adverse …

Children investigated for maltreatment are particularly vulnerable to experiencing multiple
adversities. Few studies have examined the extent to which experiences of adversity and …

OBJECTIVE: Up to 90% of child welfare system cases involve multiple types of maltreatment;
however, studies have rarely incorporated multiple dimensions of maltreatment. The present …

Youth in foster care with maltreatment experiences often demonstrate higher rates of mental
and behavioral health problems compared to youth in the general population as well as …

While the overwhelming majority of research on the consequences of childhood
maltreatment reports differential outcomes of specific maltreatment subtypes (eg, physical …

Objective: The aim of the current study was to investigate associations, unique and
interactive, between mothers' and children's histories of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and …

OBJECTIVES: Attempts to understand the effects of maltreatment subtypes on childhood
functioning are complicated by the fact that children often experience multiple subtypes. This …