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Violence Exposure and Mental Health States

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Violence and Mental Health

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Violence is a public health challenge that affects public health and Public Mental Health. Violence can take many forms at the individual level (e.g. self-inflicted violence, child abuse), the family level (e.g. domestic violence, partner violence), the community level (e.g. community violence) and at groups level (e.g. wars, genocide). Child abuse, self-inflicted violence, domestic violence, partner violence, community violence, wars and genocide not only influence somatic health and incidence and burden of psychopathology. However, the impact of violence on psychopathology remains a contented issue. In this chapter, we aim to review studies on violence and psychopathology within a longitudinal framework. We focus on the impact of violence on depression and anxiety.

Resulting from this review we describe that the impact of violence on depression and anxiety are pervasive, independent of potential well known risk factors such as gender and socioeconomic status. The thorough understanding of the impact of violence on the incidence and burden of depression and anxiety requires a life course perspective. Studies suggest that the impact of violence on psychopathology may be immediate or become apparent many years after the exposure, which has only become possible to ascertain because of the demographic ageing in many countries.

Violence exposure is a main modifiable factor for psychopathology in children, adolescents, adults and older persons. Violence informed Public Health Research and Services are needed to develop and implement tailored interventions.

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