Abstract:
Author’s Note: Themes from this editorial are adapted from the forthcoming book Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence against Women (Oxford University Press), scheduled for release April 2022....Over the last half century, the study of trauma and dissociation has grown exponentially. As a field, we have made incredible strides in documenting the prevalence of trauma and its myriad outcomes, including the pernicious effects of violence and abuse on psychological and physical health as well as educational and economic outcomes (e.g., DePrince, in press). Efforts to prevent violence and abuse have grown too...Despite these developments, we have yet to realize systemic change that ebbs the tide of trauma and violence. Indeed, the important advances in our field are bookended by other seemingly intractable circumstances...years of awareness-building have yet to significantly curb violence against women, in part because many people do not see that they have a stake in ending and responding effectively to violence against women. Instead, violence against women is viewed as someone else’s problem – a woman’s issues, a special interest issue. Yet violence against women matters to each of us. (Author Text)