Majority of institutional abuse survivors report psychological disorder

Survivors of institutional abuse are vulnerable due to the trauma they suffered in State-funded care. File picture. 

Survivors of institutional abuse are vulnerable due to the trauma they suffered in State-funded care and must now receive increased medical, psychological and housing support, a new report has found.

Four out of five survivors reported having a psychological disorder at some point in their lives, significantly more than the one in four found in a community setting, Professor Alan Carr of the UCD School of Psychology said in the newly published report called Facing the Future Together.