Psychiatric disorders, spouse abuse and child abuse.

  • 1 July 1986
    • journal article
    • Vol. 86  (4) , 444-9
Abstract
The results of 2000 standardized psychiatric diagnostic interviews of randomly selected adult household residents of Edmonton showed that having had any psychiatric diagnosis increased the risk for being involved in spouse and child abuse, particularly for those with alcohol abuse/dependence plus anti-social personality or depression. Altogether 56% of spouse abusers and 69% of child abusers had a lifetime psychiatric diagnosis.

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