The 'Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure' (MACE) scale for the retrospective assessment of abuse and neglect during development

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Teicher, Martin H ^a,b   Parigger, Angelika ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BULLYING; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE OF CARE AND ABUSE INTERVIEW; CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE OF CARE AND ABUSE QUESTIONNAIRE; CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES SCALE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; EMOTIONAL NEGLECT; EPIGENETICS; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALTREATMENT AND ABUSE CHRONOLOGY OF EXPOSURE SCALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGLECT; NEUROIMAGING; PARENTAL PHYSICAL MALTREATMENT; PEER PRESSURE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PHYSICAL NEGLECT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; RASCH ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL ABUSE; SIBLING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; VERBAL HOSTILITY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSIS; EMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923899606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117423     Document Type: Article

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