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Childhood Maltreatment Linked With Multiple Mental Health Problems

Experiencing abuse or neglect as a child can cause multiple mental health problems, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
The research, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, seeks to examine the causal effects of childhood maltreatment on mental health by accounting for other genetic and environmental risk factors, such as a family history of mental illness and socioeconomic disadvantage.
The first-of-its-kind research analysed 34 quasi-experimental studies, involving over 54,000 people.

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