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Youth victimization in Sweden: Prevalence, characteristics and relation to mental health and behavioral problems in young adulthood
- Authors:
- CARTER Asa K., ANDERSHED Anna-Karin, ANDERSHED Henrik
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 38(8), 2014, pp.1290-1302.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The present study examines multiple types of victimization simultaneously, their prevalence and characteristics in childhood and adolescence, and it examines the associations between victimization and poly-victimization on the one hand and single and multiple mental health and behavioural problems on the other. The sample consisted of 2,500 Swedish young adults (20–24 years) who provided detailed report of multiple types of lifetime victimization and current health and behaviours via an interview and a questionnaire. Results showed that it was more common to be victimized in adolescence than in childhood and more common to be victimized repeatedly rather than a single time, among both males and females. Males and females were victimized in noticeably different ways and partially at different places and by different perpetrators. With regard to mental health and behavioural problems, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and criminality were clearly overrepresented among both males and females who had experienced any type of victimization. Poly-victimization was related to single and multiple mental health and behavioural problems among both males and females. Concludes that professionals need to conduct thorough evaluations of victimization when completing mental health assessments among troubled youths, and that youth might benefit from the development of interventions for poly-victimized youth. (Edited publisher abstract)
Former Stockholm child protection cases as young adults: do outcomes differ between those that received services and those that did not?
- Authors:
- VINNERLJUNG Bo, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 28(1), January 2006, pp.59-77.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study reports on outcomes in young adulthood for previous CPA clients, by examining the prevalence of teenage parenthood, criminal offences, hospitalizations for psychiatric diagnoses, and self-support problems in a representative sample of subjects born 1968 to 1975, that resided in Stockholm (Sweden) their entire childhood, from birth to age 18. In this sample, 161 were previous CPA service receivers (service group) 110 were referred to the CPA during childhood but did not receive services (non-service group), and 1961 never had any known contact with the CPA (majority population). Almost every second man (45%) and woman (45%) in the service group had at least one negative outcome, compared to 37% of the men and 25% of the women in the non-service group, and 14–21% of the men and 7–12% of women in the majority population. Multiple regressions suggest that the impact of CPA services was scant, accounting for 1–14% of the variance of outcome variables. The results point to the potential value of including unsubstantiated cases of child maltreatment in follow-up studies of child protection clients. Implications for the findings are discussed.