Child sexual abuse survivors who do not acknowledge their experiences as abuse may be employing a protective mechanism wherein the survivor denies the existence of the...
The key takeaway from this study is that one-sided treatment - one that addresses just the psychological after-effects or just the physical trauma - is inadequate....
Neglected children, in particular, experienced higher rates of promiscuity, cannabis abuse and visual hallucinations as a result of their maltreatment.
Adults who had parents who struggled with substance dependence, intimate partner violence and mental illness are more than 10 times more likely to have been victims...
Children who suffer trauma from abuse or violence early in life show biological signs of aging faster than children who have never experienced adversity.
When compared with no experience of childhood maltreatment, participants experiencing maltreatment were more likely to be socially isolated, and more than three times as likely to...
The most important thing institutions can do to reduce the kind of harassment that, unfortunately, is all-too-common in academia is to change the character, quality and...
A global report noted that family members are often the main perpetrators of abuse against lesbians, bisexual women and transgender people.
Image-based sexual abuse is the non-consensual taking, sharing or threatening to share nude or sexual images of a person, including the use of digitally-altered imagery.
