Ryan Mills

TL;DR: This study suggests that child neglect and emotional abuse have serious adverse effects on adolescentmental health and warrant the attention given to other forms of child maltreatment and confirms that young people who are notified for more than one type of maltreatment are at particular risk of adolescent mental health problems.

TL;DR: Both child abuse and child neglect are independently associated with impaired cognition and academic functioning in adolescence, suggesting that both abuse and neglect have independent and important adverse effects on a child's cognitive development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesized the national evidence and quantified the burden attributable to the four main types of child maltreatment, i.e., childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect.

TL;DR: The importance of including all forms of child maltreatment as risk factors in future burden of disease studies is demonstrated, with a substantial proportion of burden from depressive and anxiety disorders and intentional self-harm in Australia.

TL;DR: Depression symptoms on the CES-D, as well as internalising and externalising behaviours were strongly associated with substantiated abuse in all forms, except sexual abuse, while anxiety, especially post-traumatic stress disorder, showed the strongest association whereas the findings for depressive disorder were equivocal.