Practical Implications of Research on Intimate Partner Violence Experiences for the Mental Health Clinician

Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health

I n the last two decades since the Beijing Conference on Women, violence against women and girls has been increasingly recognized as a significant human rights and public health issue affecting all societies. The World Health Organization recently estimated that at least one in three women throughout the world have experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner, or sexual violen...

Intimate Partner Violence: Practical Issues for Psychiatrists

The term “domestic violence” emerged in the United States with the rise of the women’s movement in the 1970s. Before that, violence between partners was considered a private matter. A specific type of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, refers to violence between intimate partners. Public awareness campaigns help us identify one type of intimate partner violence in which one partner, ...

Intimate Partner Violence: Practical Issues for Psychiatrists

The term “domestic violence” emerged in the United States with the rise of the women’s movement in the 1970s. Before that, violence between partners was considered a private matter. A specific type of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, refers to violence between intimate partners. Public awareness campaigns help us identify one type of intimate partner violence in which one partner, ...

Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Implications for Health Care Providers

Mental ill health in structural pathways to women’s experiences of intimate partner violence

BACKGROUND Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and binge drinking are among mental health effects of child abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV) experiences among women. Emerging data show the potential mediating role of mental ill health in the relationship of child abuse and IPV. There is evidence that PTSD, depression and alcohol abuse are comorbid common mental disorders ...