Mental disorders are twice as common among victim-survivors of intimate partner violence

By Megan Willis, Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University

Open a newspaper on any given day and you’re likely to read about yet another case of intimate partner violence – a form of domestic violence between current or former partners.

Less visible is what happens to the victims who survive it. For them, the mental health consequences can persist long after the relationship ends.

Our new research, published in the Journal of Family Violence, found mental disorders were twice as common…

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