Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview on violence and the impact of violence on mental health
- Includes a gender perspective on violence
- Provides an overview on different types of violence
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Issues in Violence and Mental Health
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Front Matter
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Self-Inflicted Violence
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Keywords
- Aboriginal violence
- Bullying in schools
- Children's mental health
- Environmental exposures
- Family violence
- Genocide (Holocaust, Armenia, Ruanda)
- Human trafficking
- Impact of violence
- Innner city violence
- Mental disorders
- Mental health
- Mental health impact of political persecution
- Mental health of the youth
- Migration and mental health of migrants and refugees
- Psychological impact of violence
- Resilience and recovery
- Violence against children, the elderly
About this book
Violence is one of the most important challenges, not only for public health systems, but also for public mental health. Violence can have immediate as well as long-term and even transgenerational effects on the mental health of its victims. This book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging assessment of the mental health legacy left by violence. It addresses the issues as they affect states, communities and families, in other words at macro-, meso- and microlevels, beginning by describing the impact of violence on neurobiology and mental health, as well as the spectrum of syndromes and disorders associated with different forms of violence.
The work moves on to tackle violence at the international—and intranational—level before zeroing in on the nature of violence in communities such as villages or city districts. It also examines the results of violence in the family. Each type of violence has distinct effects on mental health and in each chapter specific groups are explored in depth to demonstrate the heterogeneity of violence as well as the diversity of its outcomes in the realm of public mental health. Finally, the book addresses the notion of ‘undoing violence’ by detailing case studies of effective interventions and prevention occurring in countries, communities and families. These cases give us pause to reflect on the nature of resilience and dignity in the context of violence and mental health.
All the chapters have been written by leading authors in
the field and provide a state-of-the-art perspective. The authors, from different fields of expertise, facilitate interdisciplinary and international insights into the impact of violence on mental health.Reviews
“The book explores the effect of violence on victims and discusses evidence‐based interventions. … the book is appropriate for clinicians (i.e. psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, graduate students in the social sciences) who work with victims. … the book is very readable and contains helpful figures and tables as well as interesting case studies. … In this day of increased violence around the world, the book serves an important function.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2015)
“Violence is the most inhuman challenge to the human social fabric and to the psychological sciences: their failures are more frequent than their victories. This book provides an outstanding scientific framework to the analysis and the possible answers to structural violence, to the social structures that harm people and to interpersonal violence, when individuals harm other individuals.”
Benedetto Saraceno, Professor of Global Health at the University Nova of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
“It is the responsibility
of our societies to ensure healthand wellbeing for all their members. To achieve these aims, we urgently need the
commitment from our societies to the prevention of all forms of violence. This
publication presents new knowledge and evidence that support clear action that
societies must take to build a legacy of health and development throughout the
life course.”
Dr. Matilde Maddaleno, PAHO/World Health Organization, Washington DC.
“For those interested in the specific issue of the bidirectional link between mental illness and violence, this book is a good starting point. While the social stereotype of mental illness is of a person who is likely to be violent, this book reminds us that the reality is complex. Mental illness is a frequent outcome for thos who have experienced violence and those with with mental illness are also more likely to be victims of violence. However, it need not be so. There are numerous opportunities for intervention to improve mental health outcomes for those who have experienced violence. This books reminds us we can do better.”
Dr. Soumithra Pathare, India Law Society, Pune, India
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violence and Mental Health
Book Subtitle: Its Manifold Faces
Editors: Jutta Lindert, Itzhak Levav
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8999-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8998-1Published: 23 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7883-1Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8999-8Published: 25 February 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 423
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Health, Quality of Life Research, Health Psychology