COVID-19: Wake-Up Call to Reduce Barriers to MH Care for Intimate Partner Violence, Other Traumas | Psychiatric News
Under pre-COVID-19 circumstances, intimate partner violence (IPV) was already a public health crisis, with the World Health Organization naming IPV a global health problem of epidemic proportions. In a 2015 national survey, a staggering 12 million men and women, 24 people per minute, were victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner within the United States.During a…