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The confluence of violence towards an intimate partner, substance misuse and mental health: a worldwide problem affecting women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Cari Jo Clark  and
Grace Wyshak
Cari Jo Clark
Affiliation:
Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Grace Wyshak
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Departments of Biostatistics and Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA, email wyshak@hsph.harvard.edu
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Violence towards an intimate partner, substance misuse and other mental health disorders are problems that tend to cluster together and result in multiple burdens for afflicted individuals (Desjarlais et al, 1995; Wyshak & Modest, 1996; Wyshak, 2000). They are prevalent not only in high-risk groups but also among members of the general public seeking primary healthcare (Bauer et al, 2000; World Health Organization, 2001), where their afflictions often go undiagnosed and untreated (Edlund et al, 2004; Kramer et al, 2004). Furthermore, violence towards an intimate partner, substance misuse and other mental health disorders involve common symptom pathways, such as psychiatric distress, headache, abdominal pain, gastrointestinal problems and multiple somatic complaints (Berwick et al, 1991), which suggests that the use of an integrated set of screening instruments may lead to early detection and treatment for patients who are suffering from one or more of these problems.

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Thematic paper – Women's mental health and oppression
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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 9 , July 2005 , pp. 3 - 4
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2005

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