In "Victimization Experiences, Substance Misuse, and Mental Health Problems in Relation to Risk for Lethality Among African American and African Caribbean Women," Sabri et al provides details of the mental health issues that Black women face when dealing with Intimate Partner Violence. They did a study to see the factors that caused mental distress to Black women: "The deleterious effects of victimization by an intimate partner have been well-established. The most significant adverse effect is female homicides or femicides" (Sabri et al, 2013), IPV often leads to intimate partner femicide (IPF).
Severe victimization experiences, whether physical, psychological, or both, have extremely negative effects on women’s health and safe space. There’s an association between IPV and injuries among women in abusive relationships. These extreme relationships usually include the trauma of strangulation, severe beatings, or infliction of serious injuries that would eventually result in intimate partner femicide.
It’s best that we’re able to take into consideration what is detrimental to women’s mental health and their safety: “a relationship exists between women’s mental health, severe victimization experiences, and/or risk for IPF” (Sabri et al, 2013). These severe victimization experiences cause women to develop disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or the simultaneous presence of both PTSD and depression merged into one (Sabri et al, 2013).
With the issues of PTSD, this severe disorder can cause the victim to be unable to find the necessary resources to leave their partner due to excessive fear. Thus, PTSD and depression are severe factors that can lead to intimate partner violence and intimate partner femicide.
Sabri, Bushra, Stockman, Jamila K, Bertrand, Desiree R, Campbell, Doris W, Callwood, Gloria B, & Campbell, Jacquelyn C. (2013). Victimization Experiences, Substance Misuse, and Mental Health Problems in Relation to Risk for Lethality Among African American and African Caribbean Women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence,28(16), 3223-3241. This page was created by Brandon Daley.