Child Welfare Information Gateway(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, 2017)
This issue brief looks at how child maltreatment prevention efforts have grown and changed substantially over the last half century and discusses the importance of prevention as a critical component of the nation’s child ...
Child Welfare Information Gateway(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, 2013)
Forensic interviewing is a means of gathering information from a victim or witness for use in a legal setting, such as a court hearing. It is a key component of many child protective services investigations. This factsheet ...
Children’s Law Report(Children’s Law Report, 2001)
Serious child abuse cases are often complicated by the simultaneous involvement of both the child protection and criminal justice systems, with separate investigations and court proceedings. A children's advocacy center ...
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a complex phenomenon that requires various levels of intervention to address the safety, recovery, and prevention needs of children and families who have experienced victimization. Although there ...
In West Virginia, the law mandates a multidisciplinary team (MDIT) approach, (involving the collaboration of legal, social work, and other professionals), in dealing with child abuse. West Virginia code also mandates a ...
Campbell, A. K.(Texas State University Department of Public Administration, 2009)
Research Purpose: As more organizations establish child advocacy centers, there needs to be an effective tool to measure their administrative adherence to national goals and objectives. The purpose of this research is ...
Hlavka, H. R., Olinger, S. D., & Lashley, J. L.(Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2010)
Given that most cases of child sexual abuse lack external corroborating evidence, children’s verbal accounts of their experiences are of paramount importance to investigators. Forensic interviewers are charged with ...
Cossel, T. K.(The McNair Scholars Research Journal, 2010)
The present study aimed to document the effects of child sexual abuse among children, non-offending parents, and siblings to further address the needs of child victims and their families. Following abuse, children are often ...
Ruggieri, C. L.(University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2011)
Child sexual abuse has gained significant attention from the medical, legal and social research communities over the last couple decades. Developed in the 1980s, Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) have been noted as one of the ...
Glassner, S.(University of North Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 2011)
Research suggests that roughly 25% of women and 10% of men within the United States were sexually abused at some point during childhood. With such high rates of victimization affecting society, the current study explores ...
Edinburgh, L. D., Harpin, S. B., Garcia, C. M., & Saewyc, E. M.(International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, 2013)
This study examined the abuse prevalence and characteristics, and risk and protective factors, among both runaway and non-runaway adolescents evaluated at a Child Advocacy Center (CAC) in Minnesota, which had implemented ...
Young, T. H., Williams, J., & Nelson-Gardell, D.(Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2014)
Child advocacy centers across the United States intervened in more than 250,000 child abuse cases in 2011(National Children’s Alliance, 2012). Understanding the work of family victim advocates is imperative to helping ...
Chiarelli-Helminiak, C. M.(University of Connecticut, 2014)
Job satisfaction and burnout among social workers is well-documented in the literature, yet there is a paucity of research in this area pertaining to forensic interviewers. Forensic interviewers, specially trained professionals ...
Bracewell, T.(Texas State University Department of Criminal Justice, 2015)
This study investigates the role of Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) in the decision to accept or reject cases of child sexual abuse for prosecution made by prosecuting attorneys. CACs were developed, in part, to aid ...
Mitchell, M.(Boise State University Department of Criminal Justice, 2013)
Children’s Advocacy Centers were first introduced to increase collaboration when responding to victims of child abuse. Different agencies work together in a co-located center to provide services and resources to victims ...
National Children's Advocacy Center(National Children's Advocacy Center, 2017)
This bibliography lists citations and abstracts to English language publications related to
forensic interviewing, and credibility of child witnesses when fantastic or bizarre elements are
included in the child’s statements. ...
Salloum, A., Scheeringa, M. S., Cohen, J. A., & Storch, E. A.(Cognitive and behavioral practice, 2014)
Young children who are exposed to traumatic events are at risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While effective psychosocial treatments for childhood PTSD exist, novel interventions that are more ...
The Australian Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has identified multiple systemic failures to protect children in government and non-government organizations providing educational, religious, ...