Psycho-social View of Violence to Woman in the Prospective of Bangladesh

Introduction: Violence is an act of physical force that causes or is intended to cause harm. The damage inflicted by violence can be in many forms such as physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, sexual assault, violation, rape, offense, crime or verbal aggression.

Epidemiology: Now-a-days we are observing a lot of cases of sexual violence. Day by day reporting of these cases is also increased.

Discussion: Sexual violence is forcing undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. Sexual violence has a lot of ill effects on the human psyche. It causes distressing behaviors, psychiatric diagnoses and health risk behaviors. Management:  A rape victim fares best when she receives immediate support and can ventilate her fear and rage to loving family members, sympathetic physicians and law enforcement officials.

Prevention: Moral classes should be reintroduced into the existing busy academic schedule and children should be taught about what morality is.

Conclusion: Now it is time to have some understanding about the causes of violence, psychodynamics involved and how to prevent violence.