Child Maltreatment and Mental Health

Abstract

The data-set analysed below stemmed from the collaboration of Dr. Kanka Mallick of Manchester Metropolitan University, and Professor Christopher Bagley of the Manchester Educational Research Network. These researchers had previously collaborated on a number of studies of selfesteem, ethnicity, and child sexual abuse (CSA) (Bagley & Mallick, 1995; 2000a, 2000b; Bagley et al., 2000). The findings of data collected in the school year of 2006–2007 were not analysed or published at that time, because Dr. Mallick was taken ill in 2006, and tragically died in December, 2007.