Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Long term Effects on Adult Survivors of Child Maltreatment

  • Author:
  • Sudakshina Mukherjee1, N. Aravindha Babu2,, Karthika Nagarajan3, K. M. K. Masthan4
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 3218 to 3221

1Post Graduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research

2Professor, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research

3Reader, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research

4Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research

*Corresponding Author: Dr. N. Aravindha Babu MDS, Professor, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

The physical injuries seen in children though can be quantified, the psychological long term impacts in response to child maltreatment I.e child abuse and neglect can have life long negative impacts. Somehow in later life indirectly it hampers the society as a whole. These consequences can be independent of each other, but sometimes they are interrelated also.

Keywords

Child maltreatment, abuse, psychological consequences