Domestic Violence and Associated Mental Health Harms
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 423
Special Issue Editors
2. Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: criminology; intimate partner violence; stalking; forensic mental health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Domestic violence is one of our time’s greatest public health problems as well as a human rights violation. Drawing on the definition provided by the Istanbul Convention (2011), domestic violence includes any form of physical, sexual, psychological, or economic harm or suffering perpetrated by a current or former partner. On a global scale, the most recent estimates show that 26-27% of women aged 15 years or older have been victimized by physical or sexual violence by a current or former partner (World Health Organization, 2021).
Mental health problems have been found to be especially prevalent among both victims and perpetrators, with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), antisocial personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder evidenced to be correlated with domestic violence perpetration. Additionally, being a victim of such violence can lead to mental health problems such as stress and depression. Thus, mental health problems are both a risk and a vulnerability factor and need to be addressed to prevent further victimization and perpetration.
Papers addressing these topics, especially those combining a high academic standard coupled with a practical focus on providing services for both victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, are invited for this Special Issue.
Dr. Susanne Strand
Dr. Joakim Petersson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mental health problems
- domestic violence
- victims
- perpetrators
- risk assessment
- risk management
- recidivism
- quality of life
- prevention
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