Trauma-Informed Care for Maltreated Children: Evidence-Based Treatments from a Developmental Perspective

The association between child maltreatment and mental disorders in the Australian Child Maltreatment Study

“…It is possible that those living with mental disorders may be biased towards negative memories and, conversely, those without mental disorders may be more likely to minimise maltreatment that occurred in childhood. 33 To reduce this risk, the Juvenile Victimisation Questionnaire‐R2 adapted version (Australian Child Maltreatment Study) screened for child maltreatment with behaviourally specific items that assessed objective events to maximise the accuracy of participant recall. There may be unmeasured confounders that could attenuate the association between child maltreatment and later mental disorders, 34 such as parental mental illness.…”