Dampak Child Maltreatment terhadap Kesehatan Mental Anak

Abstract

Child maltreatment is a serious problem around the world that causes physical, social, and cognitive suffering. Child maltreatment also has serious and long-term consequences on children's development. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of child maltreatment on children's mental health. This research method uses Library Research by collecting articles related to the topic to be studied, reviewed from Scopus, Sciencedirect, Google Scholar as a database in research with a range of 2020-2024. Common impacts of child maltreatment include stress disorders, eating disorders and obesity, alcohol and drugs, depression, anxiety, social disorders, and anti-social behavior. Child maltreatment refers to physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault, unfair detention, and commercial exploitation that results in health, safety, or financial harm to the child. School counselors play an important role in the victimization and prevention of child maltreatment, counselors serve as important leaders in social justice, especially in their advocacy for children who are neglected, disadvantaged, abused, or live in environments marked by violence