ReviewAnnual review of clinical psychology2021
Child Sexual Abuse as a Unique Risk Factor for the Development of Psychopathology: The Compounded Convergence of Mechanisms.
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- From Trauma to Bonding: the Role of Attachment in the Relationship Between Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Intimacy.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Perpetrator types, severity, and cumulative trauma: a population-based study of childhood sexual abuse characteristics and lifelong health.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Article
- Self-reported prevalence and correlates of sex as self-injury in a Swedish high school population.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Prevalence, Patterns, Severity, and Sociodemographic Correlates of Childhood Sexual Abuse Among Adults with Hypertension.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Stress, sex, and symptomics: Individual posttraumatic stress symptoms and sexual behaviors in adolescents.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Decreased thickness of the individually-mapped genital cortex after childhood sexual abuse exposure in adult women.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Impact of parental adverse childhood experiences on offspring anxiety and depressive symptoms: a three-year longitudinal study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Early life adversity and adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Pathways to persistence and adult susceptibility.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
- Trauma, personality structure and psychopathology: a cartography of psychodynamic constructs.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- The Psychological Impact of Experiencing Sexual Abuse Revictimization by a Different Perpetrator in Childhood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intergenerational continuity of multidimensional patterns of child maltreatment exposure: A person-centered approach.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Prevalence of sexual violence against children and age at first exposure: a global analysis by location, age, and sex (1990-2023).Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- Sexual Victimization and Psychological and Behavioral Outcomes Among Children and Adolescents in South Korea.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Patterns of Childhood Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: Associations with Prenatal Depression and Anxiety.Journal of family violence · 2025Article
- Prospective Association of Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety with Pornography Viewing Frequency Among Young Adults.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Does Multidimensional Self-Concept Mediate the Relationship of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Bullying Victimization on Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescent Girls?Child & adolescent social work journal : C & A · 2025Article
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- Indicators of resource scarcity differentially moderate the impact of threat exposure on psychopathology in a cross-sectional community sample of youth.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- PROTOCOL: Risk and protective factors for child sexual abuse and interventions against child sexual abuse: An umbrella review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Interactions of the CSF3R polymorphism and early stress on future orientation: evidence for the differential model of stress-related growth.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Meta-analytic, population cohort, prospective, and clinical studies provide systematic evidence that child sexual abuse accounts for unique variation in several deleterious outcomes. There is strong evidence for psychiatric disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder and mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, and mixed evidence for personality disorders. Evaluation of sex-specific outcomes shows strong evidence for teenage childbearing, sexual revictimization, and sexual dysfunction and mixed evidence for heightened sexual behaviors and sexual offending. This review further demonstrates not only that survivors suffer the noxious impact of traumatic sexualization but that additional transdiagnostic mechanisms, including the biological embedding of stress, emotion dysregulation, avoidance, and insecure attachment, converge to compound risk for deleterious outcomes. A road map to enhance the rigor of future research is outlined, and specific recommendations for evidence-based policy making to boost prevention efforts and increase access to treatment are discussed.
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