Citation

Pelcovitz D, Kaplan SJ, DeRosa RR, Mandel FS, Salzinger S. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2000; 70(3): 360-369.

Affiliation

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, North Shore University Hospital, Manhassett, N.Y., USA. davidp@nshs.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10953782

Abstract

The relationship between abuse and psychiatric diagnoses was investigated in two groups of physically abused adolescents, 57 living in homes with interparental violence and 32 in homes without such violence, and in 96 nonabused adolescents living in nonviolent homes. Adolescents in the first group were found to be at greater risk for depression, separation anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder than were those in the second group. Adolescents in the first group also appeared more vulnerable to anxiety and depression.

Language: en