Gender Violence and Women's Mental Health

Gender plays an important role in the field of mental health in the sense that it acts as an important determinant factor. More specifically gender violence has a direct role to play in the field of mental health. Violence meted to women has a direct impact i.e. an adverse impact on her mental health. The after effect of violence against women is not confined to only mental health; it has adverse effects on physical health also. But yes, violence against women affects most adversely her mental health. This is so because such violence devastates women physically and emotionally. Women are target to violence (mostly in the nature of physical and sexual abuse) by their partners, family members, acquaintances and strangers as well. This paper tries to analyze how violence meted out to women affect them physically and mentally