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Eleven-year-old Clara is in her third treatment session, sharing about the first sexual abuse she experienced. Clara’s growing discomfort is evident as she describes her mother’s former live-in boyfriend, Michael, and how the abuse progressed. Clara becomes overtly distressed and leaps onto the therapist, embracing him. The therapist gently reestablishes physical boundaries and facilitates her diaphragmatic breathing. The scenario illustrates the complexity of the therapeutic relationship and the balance therapists must achieve for effectively supporting traumatized patients while also maintaining healthy boundaries.
In this webinar Farah Brink provides statistics for child abuse and neglect in the United States, outlines how to recognize a variety of injuries suggestive ofchild physical abuse, and highlights the basic diagnostic evaluation necessary to evaluate a child for physical abuse.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
In this webinar Laura Merchant identifies the key components of clinical assessment for child physical abuse. She discusses how to include family strengths and motivation to improve in therapy engagement and points out the potential barriers and challenges to successful treatment. She outlines symptoms a child may present and talks about the parent/child bond. In addition, she details risk factors and the need to assess parental capacity for support. This webinar outlines key standardized measures to use with abused children and their families, how to use them, and how to provide feedback on the measures. It also outlines how to develop concrete and measurable treatment goals based on symptoms and presentation.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
In this webinar, Joy Osofsky, discusses the effect physical abuse, neglect, and domestic violence has on young children. The large majority of abused children are age 0-4. Her remarks provide suggestions on how mental health professionals can work with the judicial system to insure these children receive the care and support they need to develop normally.
In this presentation, Bessel van der Kolk explains how trauma--especially repeated, interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse--affects a child's developing brain.
Category: Master Clinicians
In this webinar, an introduction to the series, the speakers provide an overview of the prevalence and incidence of child physical abuse and the status of research and practice in the field. Through case examples, the speakers illustrate the impact of physical abuse on children, identify characteristics of physically abusive caregivers and families, and highlight common biases related to working with these families.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
In this webinar David Kolko and Elissa Brown highlight evidence-based interventions aimed at empowering families, including individual treatment for children and skill building for parents. This webinars covers the goals of treatment for child physical abuse; functional analysis; affect identification and regulation; cognitive skills and processing; parent training; problem solving; and communication training.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
In this webinar Melissa Runyon and Cynthia Swenson offer practical information about two family interventions commonly delivered for families who are at risk for or who have experienced physical abuse (CPC-CBT and MST-CAN). They discuss Family Safety Planning and Abuse Clarification.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
In this webinar Elissa Brown and Lucy Berliner debunk myths about parents who engage in physically abusive behavior and provide specific, evidence-based strategies to engage families from initial outreach through course of treatment. After defining terms and key issues, the presenters highlight common challenges and describe potential solutions, including phone scripts, motivational interviewing, and de-escalation training.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
A client reveals during her first therapy session that she discovered her adoptive mother hid letters from her biological mother. In her past, she was placed in several foster care homes after incidents of physical and sexual abuse and family violence related to drug use by her mother and male partners. Though she was adopted two years ago, finding these hidden letters has escalated her feelings of distrust and not being accepted as a full member of her adoptive family.
Joshua’s mom abandoned him when he was a few days old. For the first three years of his life, Joshua lived with his maternal grandmother and her partner. When Joshua began preschool, his teachers had some concerns about his overall hygiene and care. A few months later, his teacher called DCF to report suspected abuse when he came to school with burns on both of his hands. DCF removed Joshua from his grandmother’s care due to neglect and physical abuse. Joshua went to live with his biological father for two years. At 6 years of age, Joshua’s father was incarcerated, forcing Joshua to be placed in a foster home. DCF arranged visits with his father on and off for a few years after his father’s release from prison. Joshua remained in the same foster home until the day he was arrested for attempted armed robbery at age 15. In this session, the therapist was asked by DCF to work on strengthening the relationship between Joshua and his father to see if he could move in and live with his father’s family in the future. The therapist begins the session by welcoming the father and letting him know that she has been working with Joshua for a month now. The therapist goes over Joshua’s strengths and highlights how grateful Joshua is for the opportunity to reconnect with family.
In this webinar, viewers meet James, a 16-year-old African American youth who has been living with his maternal uncle, Patrick, since he and his two younger sisters were removed from their biological parents three years ago when James reported to a teacher that his father physically abused him. The teacher filed a report with Child Protective Services (CPS), quickly leading to the removal of James and his two younger sisters (ages seven and nine at that time) from the family home. CPS has been the legal guardian of all three children ever since. CPS gave Patrick physical custody of James, but James’ sisters were placed with a foster family. Patrick believes James needs help and sends him to see Dr. Julian Ford. During his first telehealth session with Dr. Ford, James is skeptical about whether his older White therapist can understand what it’s like as a young African American man. Together, Dr. Ford and James discuss these differences. Their discussions allow James to open up and share some of his deep frustrations and fears, including how his experiences affect his sense of safety and trust and how Patrick can accept and support him as he navigates these complex issues.
This presentation introduces some of the fundamental skills in AF-CBT, and some techniques are demonstrated. The presentation also explains how to sequence AF-CBT with other EBPs and provides an overview of the AF-CBT training and consultation model. The presentation concludes with an educational video on the hope of evidence-based interventions for child physical abuse.
In this webinar Michael de Arellano and Ruth Campbell explore the relationship between physical abuse and socioeconomic status, religious beliefs, racial and/or ethnic backgrounds, and gender. Speakers share strategies for approaching families with different cultural beliefs about their parenting style and use of physical punishment.
Category: Child Physical Abuse
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth experience trauma at higher rates than their straight peers. Common traumas experienced by these youth include bullying, harassment, traumatic loss, intimate partner violence, and physical and sexual abuse, as well as traumatic forms of societal stigma, bias and rejection. Historically, professionals have failed to recognize and meet the needs of traumatized LGBTQ youth, leading to poor engagement, ineffective treatment and in some cases, perpetuating the youth’s traumatic experiences. To ensure that these youth receive the care they deserve, providers need resources to create safe spaces and familiarize themselves with the issues facing traumatized LGBTQ youth.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
In this webinar Erna Olafson presents techniques to use when interviewing children who may have been physically or sexually abused. During the presentation she addresses why evidence based child forensic interviewing is essential. She provides guidelines for interviewing children, including reluctant children. She also discusses the critical role of interviewer training and peer support.
Category: Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
Maya, a 9-year-old girl, was referred for therapy due to numerous instances of domestic violence by her father toward her mother (some of which she witnessed), physical abuse by her father, and possible sexual abuse with no specific disclosures. Both parents have extensive histories of substance abuse, including opioid and amphetamine use. Maya’s father is currently incarcerated for drug and violence-related crimes. Her mother was unable to consistently take care of Maya for the past few years due to substance abuse issues so Maya was removed from her care. Maya has two failed foster home placements due to significant aggressive and sexualized behavior. She is currently residing in a stable foster home and has begun to have monitored visits with her biological mother who was recently discharged from a drug rehabilitation program. Maya has attended therapy with this therapist for only a short time and recently, has begun to demonstrate more trauma-related play. This session illustrates how dysregulation and trauma processing can be exhibited in play, sometimes with significant distress for the child with developmental trauma. The critical dilemma involves to what extent the therapist helps a highly traumatized child to manage her distress versus engage in trauma processing.