Population-level screening for parental childhood maltreatment could be a tool to identify families who might be in need of support to reduce the risk of adverse outcomes in children. This could also be useful in terms of safeguarding since research has found that parents with a history of childhood maltreatment (particularly emotional or physical abuse) had a higher risk of abusing their own children (Bert et al., 2009), as well as higher levels of anger, and more violent physical discipline toward infants (Altemeier et al., 1986).
This study provides good practice indicators for mental health practitioners to engage with young people to help them become more aware of their online activities in a safe and curious manner. In doing so, it helps to outline the who, when, what and how for clinicians enquiring about internet use in young people.
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Psychological Medicine; Cambridge Vol. 48, Iss. 14, (Oct 2018): 2321-2328.
Being bullied by a sibling has been recently identified as a potential risk factor for developing depression and self-harm. It is unknown whether this risk extends to other serious mental health problems such as psychosis. We investigated whether sibling bullying victimization or perpetration in middle childhood was prospectively associated with psychotic disorder in early adulthood.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
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This study examined the extent to which maltreatment history and the characteristics of out-of-home care correlated with the language and social skills of maltreated children. Participants in this study were 82 maltreated children aged between 5 and 12 years of age. All children were residing with state-designated carers in out-of-home-care. The children were presented with standardised tests assessing language and social skills. Results showed that the sample performed significantly below the normative mean on both tests. Correlation analyses showed social skills, but not language skills were correlated with aspects of maltreatment history. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Differential Impact Theory (DIT) can help explain which services and supports work best for which young people at which levels of risk exposure. As a complement to a growing understanding of how a child’s genetic and phenotypic traits influence treatment outcomes, DIT focuses attention on the relative impact of a child’s environment on psychosocial development. In this article, three principles of DIT will be discussed: (1) demands of higher level systems compel individuals to adapt; (2) the factors that influence individual change the most depend on the individual’s degree of risk exposure; and (3) the more complex the challenges an individual faces, the more complex the systems required to improve functioning. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Maltreated children usually show a specific pattern of emotional and behavioral symptoms that exceed those relating to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These symptoms have been defined as Complex PTSD (CPTSD). The underlying attentional mechanisms of abnormal emotional processing and their relation to the clinical presentation of CPTSD are not well understood. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Children under three comprise a sizable and growing proportion of foster care placements. Very young children who enter the child welfare system experience disruptions of critical attachments that are essential to this formative stage of brain development, as well as other traumatic events, leaving them at great risk for lifelong impairments. To reverse these concerning outcomes, babies who have been removed from their homes require intensive, relationship-based interventions that promote secure attachment to a primary caregiver and holistic attention the child's developmental needs. Child welfare decision-makers must be informed of infant brain development and knowledgeable about the particular needs and circumstances of each child. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Children residing in long-term out-of-home care have high rates of clinical-level mental health difficulties. However, the stability of these children’s difficulties throughout their time in care is uncertain. This paper reports estimates of the seven- to nine-year stability of carer-reported scores on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Assessment Checklists for Children (ACC) and Adolescents (ACA) for 85 children in long-term foster or kinship care. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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How much does very early physical and emotional deprivation damage long-term cognitive ability and mental health? Population cohort studies are inevitably subject to all sorts of ongoing confounding factors. So the only way to answer this question would be to do a controlled trial. Unethical, surely? Well yes, but a unique set of circumstances in the 1990s presented an opportunity for a natural experiment. Readers will remember that, after the fall of the notorious Ceausescu regime in Romania in 1989, it was revealed that …...To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Comment: The young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study by Edmund Sonuga-Barke and colleagues5 in The Lancet fills an important knowledge gap on the long-term mental health consequences of early severe childhood deprivation. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Time-limited, early-life exposures to institutional deprivation are associated with disorders in childhood, but it is unknown whether effects persist into adulthood. We used data from the English and Romanian Adoptees study to assess whether deprivation-associated adverse neurodevelopmental and mental health outcomes persist into young adulthood. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai