Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence and Other Lifetime Trauma Among Women Seen in Mental Health Settings (pdf)

This piece is an excerpt from Mental health consequences of intimate partner violence in C. Mitchell and D. Anglin (Eds.), Intimate partner violence: A health based perspective. In this excerpt, the authors speak to the volumes of research documenting the effects of violence across the lifespan which indicate that abuse, violence and discrimination play a key role in many of the health and mental health problems experienced by women in the U.S. and throughout the world.