Childhood adversity and adolescent psychopathology: evidence for mediation in a national longitudinal cohort study.

CONCLUSIONS: Parent-child conflict explains almost half the relationship between childhood adversity and persisting externalising problems in adolescence, and a fifth of the relationship with persisting internalising problems. This suggests parent-child conflict is a good target for interventions in childhood to prevent adolescent psychopathology.Declaration of interestNone. PMID: 31094302 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The British Journal of Psychiatry for Mental Science - May 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Br J Psychiatry Source Type: research