• Pilot Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Application to Improve Quality of Care in Child Mental Health Treatment 

  Davidson, T. M., Bunnell, B. E., Saunders, B. E., Hanson, R. F., Danielson, C. K., Cook, D., ... & Walker, J. H. (2019)

  Mental health systems need scalable solutions that can reduce the efficacy–effectiveness gap and improve mental health outcomes in community mental health service settings. Two major challenges to delivery of high-quality ...
• The Public Health Approach to Human Trafficking Prevention 

  Greenbaum, J. (Georgia State University Law Review, 2020)

  This discusses the aspects of human trafficking and the case for a public health approach to prevention.
• Experiences and psychological health among children exposed to online child sexual abuse – a mixed methods study of court verdicts 

  Joleby, M., Landström, S., Lunde, C., & Jonsson, L. S. (Psychology, Crime & Law, 2020)

  Cases of online child sexual abuse (OCSA) are increasing dramatically in number, but research on this relatively new type of crime and its psychological consequences is limited, leading to major challenges for the ...
• Crimes Against Caring: Exploring the Risk of Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Child Exploitation Investigators 

  Brady, P. Q. (Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 2017)

  Secondary traumatic stress (STS) and burnout are debilitating occupational hazards that inhibit helping professional’s overall well-being. Much of the extant scholarship on this topic has focused on mental health and ...
• Child Maltreatment Prevention in the Era of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Editorial) 

  Greeley, C. S. (JAMA Pedicatrics, 2020)

  Editorial concerning child abuse prevention during pandemic.
• Risk and Protective Factors for Treatment Dropout in a Child Maltreatment Population 

  Eirich, R., Racine, N., Garfinkel, D., Dimitropoulos, G., & Madigan, S. (Adversity and Resilience Science, 2020)

  Many children start but do not complete trauma treatment, and there is little knowledge of factors that predict treatment dropout in children who have endured maltreatment. The current study examines the risk and protective ...
• Bridging the Gaps Among Research, Policy, and Practice in the Field of Child Maltreatment Through Cross-Sector Training and Innovation 

  Schelbe, L., Wilson, D. L., Fickler, W., Williams-Mbengue, N., & Klika, J. B. (International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice, 2020)

  The disconnects among research, policy, and practice are widely recognized. These three sectors are frequently siloed, and all of them have unique and systemic impediments to collaboration. At the same time, harnessing ...
• In Peer-on-peer Child Sexual Abuse, States Differ on Who’s a Peer 

  Pollack, D., & Kornblum, L. (Youth Today, 2020)

  Discussion of age-gap laws with regard to peer on peer abuse.
• Pathways from Child Sexual and Physical Abuse to Sexual and Physical Intimate Partner Violence Victimization through Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence 

  Schuster, I., & Tomaszewska, P. (Journal of Family Violence, 2020)

  Although many studies have shown that victims of child abuse have an increased vulnerability to revictimization in intimate relationships, the underlying mechanisms are not yet sufficiently well understood. Therefore, this ...
• Experience and Reason: A US Clinician's Perspective of An Approach to Meeting the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Needs of Children Suspected of Being Sexually Abused 

  Finkel, M. A. (Child Abuse Review, 2019)

  This paper reflects an approach to the medical evaluation of children alleged to have been sexually abused to meet their diagnostic and therapeutic needs. The approach emphasises the importance of the role of the doctor ...
• Tips and Techniques for Interviewing Children on the Autism Spectrum 

  Guzzo, D., & National Children's Advocacy Center (National Children's Advocacy Center, 2020)

  This tip sheet provides evidence-based information concerning the interviewing of alleged victims of abuse who are on the autism spectrum..
• Strategies for Rural Communities for Addressing Substance Misuse among Families Involved with the Child Welfare System 

  Jung Kim, Elizabeth Clary, Christina Ribar, Sarah Palmer, and Elizabeth Weigensberg (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2020)

  This brief describes nine programs and highlights ways they have addressed challenges that rural communities face in serving child welfare-involved parents with substance use issues. In this brief, we do not assess which ...
• Leveraging parent–child interaction therapy and telehealth capacities to address the unique needs of young children during the COVID-19 public health crisis 

  Gurwitch, R. H., Salem, H., Nelson, M. M., & Comer, J. S. (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2020)

  COVID-19 and related efforts to mitigate its spread have dramatically transformed the structure and predictability of modern childhood, resulting in growing concerns children may be particularly vulnerable to serious mental ...
• Providing Telebehavioral Health to Youth and Families DuringCOVID-19: Lessons From the Field 

  Jeffrey, J., Marlotte, L., & Hajal, N. J. (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2020)

  Behavioral health professionals have hastened their adoption of telehealth services in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article provides guiding principles and strategies for engaging youth and families through ...
• Strategies to Enhance Communication With Telemental Health Measurement-based Care 

  Douglas, S., Jensen-Doss, A., Ordorica, C., & Comer, J. S (Practice Innovations, 2020)

  Telehealth has always held great promise to increase access to mental health care, never more so than in the age of COVID-19, when clients cannot or will not come to the clinician’s physical location. A feasible and effective ...
• Understanding secondary traumatic stress for cac workers 

  National Child Traumatic Stress Network (National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2017)

  This fact sheet offers fundamental information about secondary traumatic stress (STS). This fact sheet gives CAC workers guidance on understanding STS, who is impacted, and what CACs can do to address it.
• Overcoming Disclosure Reluctance in Youth Victims of Sex Trafficking: New Directions for Research, Policy, and Practice 

  Lavoie, J., Dickerson, K. L., Redlich, A. D., & Quas, J. A. (University of Arizona College of Law and the University of Miami School of Law, 2019)

  An alarming number of youth worldwide are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, particularly sex trafficking. Normative developmental processes and motivations across the adolescent period—the age when youth are at ...
• Human capital and child protection: A research framework in the CRC context 

  Wulczyn, F., Parolini, A., & Huhr, S. (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2020)

  Since it was adopted November 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child has shaped the objectives for child protection systems around the world. Generally, those objectives fall along three dimensions: permanency, ...
• Influences on children's voices in family support services: Practitioner perspectives 

  Harkin, J. A., Stafford, L., & Leggatt‐Cook, C. (Child & Family Social Work., 2020)

  Australia's 2017 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommended to organizations that children should participate in decisions affecting their lives as a safety standard. While a substantial ...
• Prevalence and Factors Related to Delayed Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse in Benha region, Egypt during the Period 2016-2018 

  Elgazzar, F., Abdelaziz, M., & Khalifa, H. (Ain Shams Journal of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, 2020)

  Introduction: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious breach of a child’s basic human rights. A variety of distressing short-term and long-term consequences might occur. Lack of reporting by the victims makes determination ...

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