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Children exposed to family violence five times more likely to need mental health support, report findsThe major report, from Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety , also found children exposed to domestic or family violence were twice as likely to develop substance abuse disorders, and more likely than children who had no known experience of violence to be diagnosed with a wide range of other disorders.
Collaboration is the key to effective care - and to avoiding the potentially negative impacts of multiple services working in disconnected ways with children and families. Children shouldn’t have to be visibly struggling with their mental health before the trauma of violence is addressed.
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