CONTENTS

About This Course

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Issues
2. Understanding Alcohol Abuse
3. Understanding Violence Against Women
4. Alcohol and Domestic Violence
5. Alcohol, Sexual Assault, and Rape
6. Prevention and Early Intervention
7. Screening and Assessment
8. Diagnosis and Treatment
9. Legal and Ethical Issues

Supplements
Fact Sheets
Videos
Resources

Silence Hurts
Alcohol Abuse and Violence Against Women

Introduction

Health care and mental health care professionals have been addressing problems of alcohol abuse and violence against women for decades (longer in the case of alcohol abuse). Only more recently, however, have experts and researchers honed in on the importance of looking at how the two can be linked together. By screening for alcohol abuse in the context of domestic violence (and vice versa), professionals will be part of the proactive process needed for prevention and treatment efforts.

Greater awareness among professionals will not only help prevention and treatment efforts. It will also help increase public awareness as health care professionals begin to discuss the links between alcohol abuse and violence against women with each other and with their patients and clients.