Linking interpersonal childhood adversity to mental health: A scoping review of trust, mentalizing, agency and interpersonal emotion regulation as candidate social-transactional mechanisms

Trust, Mentalizing and Agency emerged as promising transdiagnostic social-transactional mechanisms though which interpersonal childhood adversity may shape mental health outcomes, with more limited evidence for IER. Despite methodological gaps, these mechanisms may represent tractable targets for intervention research and trauma-informed clinical practice.