title: Psychiatric nursing care for adult survivors of child maltreatment: a systematic review of the literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine what is known from the literature about nursing care of psychiatric patients with a history of child maltreatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatric nurses underline the importance of a routine inquiry of child abuse on admission of patients to psychiatric care, but are reluctant to ask about child abuse. They often feel insufficiently competent to respond effectively to patients with a history of child maltreatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatric nurses need training in how to assess a history of child abuse and the late-life consequences of abuse in adult psychiatric patients. They also need to be trained to respond effectively to these patients.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Clinical Health Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Rivierduinen, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands; Research Group Mental Health Nursing, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Yvonne C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: van der Zalm
authors.forename: Willem A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Nugteren
authors.forename: Thóra B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Hafsteinsdóttir
authors.forename: Cokky G J M
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: van der Venne
authors.forename: Nienke
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kool
authors.forename: Berno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: van Meijel
mesh_terms: D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Adult; child maltreatment; nursing and psychiatry