Violence, Trauma and Mental Health: Incidence of IPV in Australia

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Part A
Discuss violence, the different types of violence, and the relationship between violence,
trauma and mental health. Your discussion must include the incidence of IPV in Australia
and the potential impacts of IPV on the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and
families.
Violence can be stated as the showcase of aggressive behaviour by an individual. It is generally
the expression of aggression resulted for several reasons or behavioural traits of any person.
According to the dictionary, the word violence is illustrated as the intentional usage of physical
power or force that is threatened or targeted against another person or any community group.
Violence results in having high likelihood that results in death injury, mal deprivation of
psychological harm. According to Wasarhaley et al., (2017) there might be several of the
reasons that causes these kinds of nature or behaviour.
The context of violence has always been the part of human experienced. The effect of the
violence might be seen in several forms. Each year, as per the statistics more than a million of
people loses their lives and more people suffer from non-fatal injuries due to the result of
interpersonal, self-inflicted or collective range of violence (Breiding et al., 2015). According to
WHO, the intention use of the power that readily results in injury or other harm is the definition
of violence. The illustration by the World Health Organization associated on an international
basis with the commitment of actions irrespective of the actions. The illustration covers a wide
range of outcomes that furthermore includes deprivation, psychological harm. It also reflects
upon the growing recognition that violence does not necessarily result to death or injury but also
poses substantial burden over the health care factors and mental disrupts of individual.

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Violence can be categorized in several ways. The World Health Assembly that is called over the
World Health Organization developed the typology related to violence characterizing several
categories and types of violence and links among them. Three broad categories includes
interpersonal violence, self directed violence and collective violence.
In the light of violent crimes. There are four of the major categories as per the researches. This
includes assault or causing physical harm to someone with the intent, homicide or killing human
being with justifiable legal reasons, robbery and forcible intent of sexual intercourse or rape.
Some of the other forms of violence that overlap with the above mentioned categories are the
domestic violence and child sexual abuses (O'Doherty et al., 2015). In the context of the
Australian statistics, one of the major forms of violence that have caught limelight in the current
decade is the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
IPV falls under the broader category of Interpersonal Violence. The family and the violence
related to intimate partner has been prevailing among many of the families among the country
specifically tales place among the home.
The figure below highlights the typology of the violence that ranges among the several nature
like sexual, physical, psychological and involve of neglect and deprivation.
Physical Violence √ √ √
Psychological Violence √ √ √
Sexual Violence √ √ √

Interpersonal
Violence
Partner Child Elder
Family/
Partner
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Neglect or Deprivation √ √ √
As per the researches and the data gathered from the Australian Bureau, the categories of
violence acts in the category highlighted above. This typology while being imperfect and far
from being actually accepted universally; provides the useful and effective framework for the
understanding of the complex and vivid patterns of the violence that takes place in the country
and also around the world.
While highlighting over the interpersonal violence, this research essay will focus over the
intimate partner violence and its impacts over the victims of violence. According to Smith et al.,
(2016) violence whether emotional, physical, sexual or verbal leads to trauma which tends to
have long term effects over mental health of an individual.