Court-ordered removal in severe child maltreatment: an association to parental major affective disorder.
The authors report on a study of psychiatric diagnoses in parents whose children had been removed from their custody by court order because of child abuse and neglect. Compared to a similar group of parents who had not had children removed, the subject parents had a significantly greater lifetime incidence of affective disorders by Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) prior to their court involvement. Very few of these disorders had been rigorously diagnosed before or treated psychiatrically.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*