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Title Violence and mental health : its manifold faces / Jutta Lindert, Itzhak Levav, editors
Published Dordrecht : Springer, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 423 pages) : illustrations
Contents General issues in violence and mental health. Violence in prolonged conflicts and its socio-psychological effects / Iris Lavi and Danier Bar-Tal -- Intergenerational transmission of violence / Cathy Spatz Widom and Helen W. Wilson -- Violence and mental health states / Jutta Lindert -- Self-inflicted violence. Self-inflicted violence / José Manuel Bertolote and Diego de Leo -- Violence in families. Child abuse and adult psychopathology / Gilad Gal and Yael Basford -- Corporal punishment and children's mental health : opportunities for prevention / Lawrence Wissow -- Mental health consequences of violence against women / Jane Fisher and Meena Cabral de Mello -- The consequences of violence on the mental health of the elderly / Robert Kohn, Laura Stanton, Ghulam Mustafa Surti, and Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl -- Violence in communities. Bullying in Schools : rates, correlates and impact on mental health / Sheryl Hemphill, Michelle Tollit, Aneta Kotevski, and Ariane Florent -- Violence against people with mental disorders / Angelo Barbato -- 'This is where a seed is sown' : aboriginal violence -- continuities or contexts? / Ernest Hunter and Leigh-Ann Onnis -- Trafficked persons and health / Itsván Szilárd and Árpad Baráth -- Violence in societies. Terrorism and its impact on mental health / Sasha Rudenstine and Sandro Galea -- Political violence in the German Democratic Republic between 1949 and 1989 and it consequences for mental and physical health / Gregor Weissflog and Elmar Brahler -- The aftermath of the European and Rwandan genocides / Itzhak Levav -- The new H5 model of refugee trauma and recovery / Richard F. Mollica, Robert T. Brooks, Solvig Ekblad, and Laura McDonald -- Facing the challenges of violence. From Sharpeville to Marikana : the changing political landscape for mental health practice in a violent South Africa / Leslie Swartz -- Evidence based interventions for violent behavior in children / Sajid Humayun and Stephen Scott
Summary 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
Analysis volksgezondheid
public health
kwaliteit van het leven
quality of life
psychologie
psychology
geneeskunde
medicine
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Proquest, viewed March 28, 2023)
In Springer eBooks
Subject Violence.
Violence -- Psychological aspects
Mental illness.
Violence
Mental Disorders
violence.
mental disorders.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Mental illness
Violence
Violence -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Lindert, Jutta, 1958- editor.
Levav, Itshak, editor.
ISBN 9789401789998
9401789991
9401789983
9789401789981