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Association of oxytocin level and less severe forms of childhood maltreatment history among healthy Japanese adults involved with child care

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015
Background: Oxytocin (OT) is known to play a role in stress regulation. The association between childhood maltreatment history and neuropeptide OT concentration is inconsistent due to the varying degrees of severity of childhood maltreatment, among other
Rie eMizuki, Takeo eFujiwara
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Abuse in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Health in Early Adulthood: Evidence From the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background Although childhood abuse has been consistently associated with cardiovascular disease in later adulthood, its associations with cardiometabolic health in younger adults are poorly understood. We assessed associations between childhood physical,
Ana Goncalves Soares, Annie Zimmerman, Stan Zammit, Anke Karl, Sarah L. Halligan, Abigail Fraser   +5 more
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
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Exploring proximal mechanisms behind intergenerational association between maternal childhood abuse and Chinese preschool children's executive function

, 2022
Background: Maternal personal history of childhood abuse has been found to predict child social -emotional problems; however, little is known about the intergenerational associations between maternal childhood abuse and child cognitive outcomes.Objective:
Wu, Chunxia, Liu, Siman, Zhang, Qing, Wang, Linan, Dong, Shuyang, Cao, Lizhi   +5 more
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
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Childhood abuse and disordered eating behaviors in female college students: how does depression and anxiety come from?

Eating and Weight Disorders
Purpose This study examines the relationship among childhood abuse, disordered eating behaviors, depression, and anxiety in female college students. It also investigates the mediating role of disordered eating in the relationship between childhood abuse ...
Huizi Li, Wenyue Han, Shaoshan Zhuang, Jialong Xu, YueYi Sun, Zheng Zheng   +5 more
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Childhood Maltreatment in Individuals With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: The Impact of Cut-Off Scores on Prevalence Rates

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Childhood maltreatment is a common phenomenon in various psychiatric disorders. Accordingly, patients with disorders from the schizophrenia spectrum (SSD) appear to have high prevalence rates of childhood maltreatment.
Angelina Weitkämper, Michael Kellner, Michael Kellner, Jona Ruben Iffland, Martin Driessen, Hanna Kley, Frank Neuner, Benjamin Iffland   +7 more
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham, Jesica Siham Fernández   +1 more
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Study of the impact of abuse on children, adult survivors and practioners, and the implications for service delivery and therapeutic interventions. [PDF]

This thesis presented for a Ph. D. by publication traces the progress of my work from 1988-2004. The portfolio and narrative herein developed demonstrates that the publications and their dissemination constitute a contribution to knowledge equivalent to
Walker, Moira
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The impact of childhood abuse on patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder: an Egyptian study

Middle East Current Psychiatry
Background The presence of childhood abuse is expected to have a great impact on several psychological domains on obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) patients.
Yasser Abo Raya, Mohammad Gamal Sehlo, Reehab Saeed Mahdy, Heba Mesbah Kotb, Abdallah Saad Ibrahim   +4 more
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