Figure 2.

Overlap of childhood maltreatment (CM) subtypes in our sample. As can be seen, participants with a history of CM had rarely been exposed to only one type of CM. The form of CM that most often occurred in isolation was emotional neglect, accounting for 20% of the youths exposed to CM (although 94% of participants exposed to CM reported emotional neglect). Only 6% of the youth with a history of CM reported in isolation physical neglect, physical abuse or sexual abuse. Meanwhile, 74% of the individuals reported multiple forms of CM. Specifically, 16% reported four CM subtypes: emotional neglect, physical neglect, emotional abuse, and physical abuse. Furthermore, 12% of the children and adolescent exposed to CM manifested having suffered all five forms of CM, including sexual abuse.