Violence and women's mental health: the pain unequalled.

摘要

This volume serves as the second in a two-part special issue focusing on the mental health implications of violence against women. Acknowledging that the field still lacks a detailed understanding of the particularized effects of intimate forms of violence on women's mental health and that sufficient conceptual models to explain the effects are elusive, in the summer of 2008, the University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women hosted a national scientific meeting on this topic. To ensure that discussions included the key perspectives of advocates, the Center's cohosts for the meeting included advocates representing the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the National Center for Victims of Crime, and local advocates from Kentucky. The meeting was also cohosted by the American Psychological Association.