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Relationship of psychosocial adversity to depressive symptoms and self-harm in young homeless people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Balamurugan Nambi ,
Pallab Majumder  and
Panos Vostanis
Balamurugan Nambi
Affiliation:
Leicestershire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, UK
Pallab Majumder
Affiliation:
University of Leicester, UK
Panos Vostanis
Affiliation:
University of Leicester, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, Leicester, UK, email [email protected]
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An increased incidence of psychiatric disorders has been reported in homeless young people. These disorders are often related to their childhood experience of trauma, although less is known about how secondary traumatic experiences while being homeless affect psychopathology. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between life adversities – living on the street, physical and sexual abuse (during both childhood and young adult life) and substance misuse – and depressive symptoms and self-harm among homeless young people.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 40 - 42
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