This editorial paper accompanies a special series in the journal Global Mental Health focused on the topic of interpersonal violence and mental health. This series included 24 papers reporting on data from 31 countries, published between 2017 and 2019. This accompanying paper provides a short summary of findings in the special series and reflects on next steps in research and practice. Collectively, the series’ 24 papers suggest intricate bi-directional relationships between interpersonal violence and mental health, situated in particular contexts and varying across the life course. In order to study this complexity, an overarching theoretical framework is critical. This paper takes the social justice theory developed by Powers and Faden (2006, 2019) as a starting point. It is argued that application of this social justice framework will be helpful to: strengthen conceptual clarity; provide a sense of direction for research and practice in the area of interpersonal violence and mental health; assist in conducting more fine grained analyses of contextually determined processes of disadvantage; and help situate disciplinary specific research and practice questions in their broader context, thereby strengthening multi-disciplinary research and multi-sectoral policy and programming efforts.

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人际暴力与心理健康：推进研究和实践的社会正义框架


这篇社论论文是《全球心理健康》杂志上的一个特别系列文章的一部分，该系列重点关注人际暴力和心理健康主题。该系列包括 24 篇论文，报告了 31 个国家/地区的数据，发表于 2017 年至 2019 年之间。本文随附的论文对特别系列中的发现进行了简短总结，并反思了研究和实践的后续步骤。总的来说，该系列的 24 篇论文提出了人际暴力与心理健康之间错综复杂的双向关系，这种关系存在于特定的背景下，并且在整个生命历程中有所不同。为了研究这种复杂性，总体理论框架至关重要。本文以Powers和Faden（2006，2019）发展的社会正义理论为起点。有人认为，这种社会正义框架的应用将有助于： 加强概念清晰度；为人际暴力和心理健康领域的研究和实践提供方向感；协助对上下文确定的不利过程进行更细粒度的分析；并帮助将学科具体研究和实践问题置于更广泛的背景下，从而加强多学科研究和多部门政策和规划工作。