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- Title
Dowry-related domestic violence and complex posttraumatic stress disorder: a case report.
- Authors
O'Connor, Manjula
- Abstract
<bold>Objectives: </bold>This paper draws attention to the mental health impact of coercive practice of dowry demands, associated with domestic violence (DV) in an immigrant woman.<bold>Methods: </bold>This study was based on a case report and selective literature review.<bold>Results: </bold>This case history illustrates the serious mental health impacts of repeated emotional and physical trauma inflicted by a husband who was dissatisfied with his wife's dowry. Bio-psycho-social / cultural aspects of mental health treatments needed to be augmented with attention to safety, advocacy, and access to support networks.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Cultural factors are important determinants of mental illness. Psychiatrists need to be aware of DV and dowry when treating immigrant women.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; DOWRY; DOMESTIC violence; MENTAL illness; EMOTIONAL trauma; WOMEN immigrants
- Publication
Australasian Psychiatry, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 4, p351
- ISSN
1039-8562
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/1039856217700464