Jan E. Fleming

TL;DR: A history of abuse in childhood increases the likelihood of lifetime psychopathology; this association appears stronger for women than men, and varied significantly by gender for all categories except for anxiety disorders.

TL;DR: It is likely that major depressive disorder is relatively uncommon in prepubertal children, increases in frequency in adolescents, and is significantly associated with such variables as family dysfunction and low self-esteem.

TL;DR: A history of childhood maltreatment among Ontario residents is common, and child abuse may be more prevalent in younger women compared with older women, or there may be a greater willingness among younger women to report abuse.

TL;DR: By treating disorder as informant-specific, the internal properties of the measure are not generally inferior to those obtained by combining informants in various ways, and the pattern of associated features of disorder was found to vary markedly in parent-identifiedCompared with teacher-identified.

TL;DR: Results on outcomes revealed that conduct disorder showed the greatest stability especially from late childhood to early adolescence, and in multivariate analyses, both family dysfunction and problems getting along with others significantly predicted the persistence of one or more psychiatric disorders 4 years later.