A study of almost 300,000 Australian children over 12 years has revealed that those who have suffered "substantial maltreatment and neglect" are four times more likely to miss school for extended ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When given strategies to regulate emotions, adolescents who experienced maltreatment were able to modulate their ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's known that kids who have been sexually abused tend to start having sex earlier than kids who have not had that experience, possibly due to emotional distress. A new ...

There's a common assumption that children subjected to abuse or trauma will have problematic emotions across the board -- muted responses to positive situations and extreme reactions to negative ones.

A new study has suggested that children who have been abused or maltreated, show an encouraging ability to regulate their emotions. University of Washington researchers found that with a little ...

Newspaper articles, TV shows and books are filled with horror stories of children placed in foster care. A new study bucks that trend by showing out-of-home placements can improve the emotional health ...

One in eight children in the United States is maltreated before turning 18, and most of these cases involve neglect, according to new research. In the study, researchers found that 12.5 percent of U.S ...

The authors examined 284 maltreated and nonmaltreated children's (6- to 12-year-olds) ability to inhibit true and false memories for neutral and emotional information using the ...

Consistent with findings from experimental research in nonhuman primates exposed to early-life stress, children exposed to maltreatment are at high risk of detrimental physical health conditions, such ...