'' physical abuse, in addition to its physical health consequences, has linked to cognitive delays, aggressive behaviour, peer difficulties, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other externalizing and internalizing behavioural propblems. Documented consequences of sexual abuse include low academic performance, depression, dissociation,inappropriate sexual behaviour,and other high-risk behaviours in later childhood. Emotional maltreatment, which is implicated in all other forms of maltreatment, leads to declines in cognitive and academic functioning as well as a variety of behavioural problems '' quote from irp period.