Childhood Violence & Psychiatric Disorders

Childhood Violence & Psychiatric Disorders

Exposure to childhood violence linked to psychiatric disorders. Investing in diminishing socioeconomic status inequalities and in preventing violent events during childhood may improve the mental health of youths from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. The results showed that having experienced any traumatic event and low socioeconomic status were associated with an internalizing disorder such as depression and anxiety and an externalizing disorder including attention-deficit hyperactivity. Source 3j.