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

Summary of Module

• Women of all ages can become victims of abuse. Victims of abuse run a higher risk of substance use than women who have not been abused.
• Alcohol abuse and domestic violence may be passed from generation to generation. Both involve denial, and substance abusers and batterers both blame their partners for their behavior.
• Abusers use several tactics to maintain power and control over their partners, including financial abuse, sexual abuse, isolation, stalking, intimidation, and threatening to hurt or run away with the children.
• Several factors may stop a woman from leaving her abuser, including fear, homophobia, cultural pressures, lack of resources, isolation, and age.
• There are medical, physical, psychological, and emotional consequences of domestic and dating violence.
• Young children suffer devastating consequences from growing up in a home where there is violence and/or substance abuse.