Vilariño Vázquez, ManuelAmado, Bárbara G.Seijo Martínez, DoloresSelaya Berodia, AdrianaArce Fernández, Ramón2022-09-192022-09-192022Vilariño, M., Amado, B. G., Seijo, D., Selaya, A., & Arce, R. (2022). Consequences of child maltreatment victimisation in internalising and externalising mental health problems. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 27(2), 182-193. doi:10.1111/lcrp.122121355-3259http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29228Purpose: The literature on the prevalence of child maltreatment is extensive, but studies are required to assess the impact on mental health to enhance the effectiveness of intervention programs. Method: Thus, a field study was undertaken to evaluate depression, anxiety, and anger in 65 child victims of multiple types of maltreatment. Results: The results showed that child maltreatment victim (CM-V) reported more depressive (36%), anxiety (45%), and anger (69%) symptoms than the normative sample. However, subjects were asymptomatic in approximately 25% of depression, 20% anxiety, and 5% of anger. Epidemiologically, the results revealed that the probability of caseness among the CM-Vs sample increased to around 85% for depression and anxiety and 90% for anger.Conclusions: The clinical, social, and legal implications of the results are discussedeng© 2022 The Authors. Legal and Criminological Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Child abuseChild maltreatmentConsequences of maltreatmentMental health problemsPsychological injury victimisationjournal article10.1111/lcrp.122122044-8333open access