SILENT HURTS
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Video:
Addressing Alcohol-Related Domestic Violence

[TRANSCRIPT PREPARED FROM A TAPE RECORDING.]

IDENTIFYING THE PRESENTING PROBLEM

THERAPIST:  Hello, Sheila.  Thanks for coming in today.

SHEILA:     I'm a little nervous.

THERAPIST:  Can you tell me a little bit about your reason for
	    coming in today.

SHEILA:     Well, you helped a friend of mine, and she told me about 
	    how you helped her, and I thought I would just come in and
	    talk a little bit.  I'm having a lot of trouble with my 
	    daughter right now, and I just can't seem to--the family 
	    thing--I just can't seem to keep everybody together the way
	    I used to be able to.  And my daughter is just not herself.
	    I don't even know where she is sometimes.  She's off with 
	    friends I don't know.

THERAPIST:  Is there anything that's changed recently that may be 
	    affecting your daughter?

SHEILA:     Her--she and her father sometimes kind of--

THERAPIST:  Bump heads a little bit?

SHEILA:     They bump heads.  I mean, she doesn't know that you have 
	    to, you know, women have to take a lot of things and that 
	    you have to learn how to control [audio break].