Discuss the relationship between youth victimization and mental health problems indicated in the text. Do you agree with the authors' statement "Protecting adolescents must become a national priority.". Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
• Negative outcomes in victims of sexual assault were three to five times the rates observed in nonvictims.
• The lifetime prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is 8 percent of all adolescents, indicating that millions of adolescents had met the criteria for PTSD at some point during their lifetime.
• Girls were significantly more likely than boys to have lifetime PTSD
• Among boys who had experienced sexual assault, 28 percent had PTSD at some point in their lives. The rate of lifetime PTSD among boys who had not been sexually assaulted was 5 percent.
• Sexually assaulted girls had a lifetime PTSD rate of 30 percent, compared with only 7 percent of girls with no sexual assault history.
• Experiencing either a physical assault or physically abusive punishment was associated with a lifetime PTSD rate of 15 percent for boys. The rate of lifetime PTSD in boys who had not been physically assaulted or abusively punished was 3.1 percent.
• Approximately 25 percent of physically assaulted or abused adolescents reported lifetime substance abuse or dependence. Rates of substance problems among non-physically assaulted or abused adolescents were roughly 6 percent.
• The percentage of boys who were physically assaulted and had ever committed an offense was 47 percent, compared with 10 percent of boys who were not assaulted. Similarly, 29 percent of physically assaulted girls reported having engaged in serious delinquent acts at some point in their lives, compared with 3 percent of girls who had not been assaulted.
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