Roy, S., & Madiki, I. P.(International Journal of Policy Sciences and Law, 2020)
The issue of child sexual abuse stems from the psycho-social structure and the archaic
social systems that exist in India, where the vulnerable and unaware are misguided, sometimes
oppressed and their rights exploited, ...
National Child Traumatic Stress Network(National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2020)
Provides information about the specific self-care strategy of Pause-Reset-Nourish, or PRN. This fact sheet acknowledges the levels of stress that professionals may be currently experiencing and offers a way to address ...
Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., & Patihis, L.(Memory, 2020)
What does science tell us about memory phenomena such as false and repressed memories? This
issue is highly pressing as incorrect knowledge about these memory phenomena might
contribute to egregious effects in the courtroom ...
This Issue Brief explores strategies to integrate human trafficking (HT) prevention into Runaway
and Homeless Youth (RHY) programs. These strategies emphasize the vital role that RHY
programs can play in the prevention ...
Woudstra, M. J., Emmen, R. A., Alink, L. R., Wang, L., Branger, M. C., & Mesman, J.(Child Abuse & Neglect, 2020)
Background
Definitions of child maltreatment vary between studies, and few are informed by research in non-Western countries.
Objective
We examined attitudes about child maltreatment in China and the Netherlands.
...
Keith Hullenaar and R. Barry Ruback(The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2020)
This bulletin uses three different data sources to examine juvenile violent
victimization from 1995 to 2018. The Offce of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention funded this analysis to provide practitioners ...
Scholars and investigators of child sexual abuse (CSA) have long pointed out that some CSA allegations may be unfounded. However, no population-based estimates of the occurrence of false allegations have previously been ...
Sigad, L. I., & Tener, D.(Journal of interpersonal violence, 2020)
Cultural contexts are formative of and fundamental to how individuals
understand, conceptualize, and act within a context of violence. Conceptually
and methodologically, however, research from a culturally informed ...
Denk-Florea, C. B., Gancz, B., Gomoiu, A., Ingram, M., Moreton, R., & Pollick, F.(PLOS ONE, 2020)
This study aimed to extend previous research on the experiences and factors that impact law enforcement personnel when working with distressing materials such as child sexual abuse content. A sample of 22 law enforcement ...
Stewart, J., & Witte, T. H(Journal of interpersonal violence, 2018)
A burgeoning body of scholarship is attempting to understand, normalize, and ameliorate the emotional strain of victim service provision. The literature, however, has yet to fully theorize the hazardous process of empathetic ...
Berrios, R., & Zarate, M.(California State University, San Bernardino, 2020)
Social workers in the field of practice work with clients who share their
personal trauma history. By listening to traumatic events vicarious trauma can
develop and affect social workers mental health. Vicarious trauma ...
Hallinan, S., Shiyko, M. P., Volpe, R., & Molnar, B. E.(American journal of community psychology, 2019)
The Vicarious Trauma Organizational Readiness Guide (VT‐ORG) is an assessment of an organization's readiness to address vicarious trauma (VT), which is exposure to the traumatic experiences of people served. This study ...
MacEachern, A. D., Dennis, A. A., Jackson, S., & Jindal-Snape, D.(Journal of police and criminal psychology, 2019)
It has been increasingly recognised that individuals exposed to the trauma of others within their professional roles can be affected by secondary traumatic stress (STS). Despite this recognition, there is a dearth of ...
Benuto, L. T., Singer, J., Gonzalez, F., Newlands, R., & Hooft, S.(Safety and health at work, 2019)
Background/Aims
Victim advocates are at risk of developing secondary traumatic stress (STS), which can result from witnessing or listening to accounts of traumatic events. This study investigated the relationship between ...
Suzanne C. Brundage, Adam Fifield, Lee Partridge(United Hospital Fund, 2020)
The information shared in this report shines a light on a
population affected by opioids that is often hidden from
view, allows for comparison of the “ripple effect” to other public health problems, and offers an ...
Sites, J., & Widdifield, J.(Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center and Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, 2020)
Cases of children ages 12 and younger with problematic sexual behavior (PSB) can present a myriad of
challenges for multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) and Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs). After all, MDTs
and CACs were ...
Brubacher, S. P., Sharman, S. J., Westera, N. J., Zekiroski, H., Danby, M. C., & Powell, M. B.(The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 2020)
The present study tested the effectiveness of narrative practice on adult witnesses’ reports
about a mock sexual assault. Narrative practice is a rapport-building activity that involves
recounting a neutral or pleasant ...
Letourneau, E. J., Assini-Meytin, L.C., Kaufman, K. L., Mathews, B., & Palmer, D.(Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2020)
This Desk Guide seeks to shift the focus on preventing and addressing CSA away from a seemingly
endless series of discrete rules towards the achievement of overarching goals. We present a
core set of rational principals ...
Denk-Florea, C. B., Gancz, B., Gomoiu, A., Ingram, M., Moreton, R., & Pollick, F.(Plos one, 2020)
This study aimed to extend previous research on the experiences and factors that impact law enforcement personnel when working with distressing materials such as child sexual abuse content. A sample of 22 law enforcement ...
Taylor, O.(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)
The purpose of this research was to address the need for evidence-based practice
in child care and protection settings by evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of
two therapeutic interventions (Trauma-Focused ...