Citation

Rosenberg SD, Drake RE, Mueser K. Community Ment. Health J. 1996; 32(4): 387-400.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8840081

Abstract

Sexual abuse in childhood is increasingly recognized as an important etiologic component in a number of psychiatric disorders. One-quarter to one-third of all female children suffer sexual abuse before their eighteenth birthday, and at least one half of women with severe mental illness acknowledge such events. An even higher percentage of a particularly vulnerable group, dually diagnosed homeless women, appear to have a premorbid history of childhood victimization. In this paper, we review the emergent literature on childhood abuse, its sequelae and treatment; and discuss the implications of these data for the development of new approaches to trauma recovery in people with severe mental illness.

Language: en