Caught in a web of trauma: Network analysis of childhood adversity and adult mental ill-health.

CONCLUSIONS: As neglect and violence against the mother were the most influential ACEs, curbing them is likely to destabilize the whole network of adversity. Thus, neglect and violence against the mother lend themselves as candidate targets for the development of new interventions. As sexual abuse was the only link between childhood adversity and adult mental ill-health, interventions against it seem most likely to keep this negative long-term effect from developing. Further, ideally prospective, research is needed to corroborate these findings.
PMID: 32562964 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - June 16, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Breuer F, Greggersen W, Kahl KG, Schweiger U, Westermair AL Tags: Child Abuse Negl Source Type: research