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A Review of Organizational Laws and Management Policies of the Roman Catholic Church to Address Clerical Child Sexual Abuse in the 20th Century

Rashid, Faisal (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022)

During the early 1980’s and 1990’s, clerical child sexual abuse (cCSA) in the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) gained public attention, escalating into a major scandal by the beginning of the 21st century. The Vatican’s ...

COVID-19 and the unseen pandemic of child abuse

Park, W., & Walsh, K. (BMJ paediatrics open, 2022)

For children, the collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic response has been considerable: ‘nearly insurmountable’ educational losses, deteriorating mental health, low routine childhood vaccination rates, 39 ...

Increasing the Efficacy of Investigations of Online Child Sexual Exploitation

Levine, Brian Neal (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022)

The goal of this report is “to identify investigative factors that reliably indicate whether a subject of an online child exploitation investigation poses a high risk of harm to children,” per Section 401 of the PROTECT ...

Child Abuse or Accident? Bringing Science to Pediatric Emergency Departments and Forensic Investigation

Dawson, Jim (National Institute of Justice Journal, 2021)

Understanding Injuries The need for their work is reflected in the high number of children brought into emergency departments in the United States each year and the difficulty doctors and nurses face in sorting the accidents ...

Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues

Forslund, T., Granqvist, P., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Sagi-Schwartz, A., Glaser, D., Steele, M., ... & Duschinsky, R. (Attachment & Human Development, 2022)

Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family courts, but misunderstandings are widespread and sometimes result in misapplications. The aim of this consensus statement is, ...

Developmental Differences in Children’s Learning and Use of Forensic Ground Rules During an Interview About an Experienced Event

Brown, D. A., Lewis, C. N., Lamb, M. E., Gwynne, J., Kitto, O., & Stairmand, M. (Developmental Psychology, 2019)

Children often answer questions when they do not have the requisite knowledge or when they do not understand them. We examined whether ground rules instruction—to say “I don’t know,” to tell the truth, and to correct the ...

School principals coping with child sexual abuse in their schools

Tener, D., Lusky-Weisrose, E., Roe, D., Mor, R., Sigad, L. I., Shaharabani, M., ... & Rozenfeld-Tzafar, N. (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2022)

Background Schools serve a central role in prevention, disclosure and intervention in cases of child sexual abuse (CSA). As school principals often face CSA cases in their daily work, they may hold the key to making social ...

A Multilevel Examination of Whether Child Welfare Worker Characteristics Predict the Substantiation Decision in Canada

Lwin, K., Fallon, B., Filippelli, J., & Trocme, N. (Journal of interpersonal violence, 2022)

The decision to substantiate a report of child maltreatment represents a key decision point in the child welfare service decision-making continuum. This decision has various potential implications for children and ...

Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review

Finno-Velasquez, M., Sepp, S. M., Lopez, A., Aquino, E., Cherie, N., & Ortiz-Upston, M. (Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2022)

A growing population of immigrant children and families to the U.S. from Latin American countries requires consideration of their unique historical, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts in child abuse and neglect ...

Can Common Elements Support a Public Health Approach to Child Maltreatment?

Polimeni, M., Tan, E., Fang, C. S. K., Lewis, J., McLeod, B. D., & Bjorndal, A. (International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice, 2022)

Despite ongoing reforms to child protection systems and calls for a greater focus on prevention and early intervention, demand on statutory services continues to grow across developed countries. The reasons for this are ...

Adapting Adolescent Dating Violence Prevention Interventions to Victims of Child Sexual Abuse

Brodeur, G., Fernet, M., Hébert, M., & Wekerle, C. (Health Promotion Practice, 2022)

Considering the increased risk of revictimization, adolescents who have experienced child sexual abuse (CSA) are a priority subpopulation for the prevention of dating violence. Yet, intervention programs often focus on ...

‘They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse

Cunnington, C., & Clark, T. (Qualitative Social Work, 2022)

There is a well-established literature examining how perpetrators of child sexual abuse (CSA) neutralise the norms and beliefs that ordinarily prohibit such behaviours. However, there has been substantially less focus ...

Responding to Basic and Complex Cases of Child Abuse: a Comparison Study of Recent and Current Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) Students with DSS Workers in the Field

Parker, J., McMillan, L., Olson, S., Ruppel, S., & Vieth, V. (Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 2020)

In an effort to improve the training of future child protection professionals, more than 70 universities and graduate schools in the United States have implemented Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) minors or graduate programs. ...

Using a Public Health Approach to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse by Targeting Those at Risk of Harming Children

Cant, R. L., Harries, M., & Chamarette, C. (International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice, 2022)

The evidence is clear that child sexual abuse is a public health concern internationally. Prevention of child sexual abuse requires a variety of interventions including those that stop individuals from either sexually ...

Child Neglect and Trauma: A Fact Sheet for Providers

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2022)

Offers child-serving providers information about child neglect and trauma. This fact sheet describes what child neglect is, if it is a traumatic experience, how neglect impacts children, factors that might be related to ...

A Trauma-Informed Guide for Working with Youth Involved in Multiple Systems

Howe, David; National Child Traumatic Stress Network (National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2022)

Offers guidance to help those working with youth involved in multiple systems (YIMS) and their families to use a traumatic stress perspective and provide trauma-informed care. This resource guide uses two case vignettes ...

The discovery process: What mothers see and do in gaining awareness of the sexual abuse of their children

Plummer, C. A. (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2006)

Objective The aim of this study was to explore how mothers discovered that their children had been sexually abused. The exploration included learning from whom or in what ways mothers learned about the abuse, whether there ...

Mothers Who Fail to Protect Their Children from Sexual Abuse: Addressing the Problem of Denial

Adams, Christine (Yale Law & Policy Review, 1994)

This Note will explore how the law treats and should treat mothers who allow their children to be sexually abused by the mothers' partners. Specifically, this Note considers two questions. First, should the state impose ...

Estimating Surveillance Bias in Child Maltreatment Reporting During Home Visiting Program Involvement

Holland, M. L., Esserman, D., Taylor, R. M., Flaherty, S., & Leventhal, J. M. (Child Maltreatment, 2022)

It is unclear if surveillance bias (increased reports to Child Protective Services [CPS] related to program involvement) has a substantial impact on evaluation of home visiting (HV) prevention programs. We estimated ...

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Suicidal Ideation among Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Seen at the Philippine General Hospital Child Protection Unit

Vega, P. A. G., & Lorenzana, R. C. (Acta Medica Philippina, 2022)

Objectives. Suicidal ideation is a serious concern even among the pediatric population. This study aimed to determine its prevalence among victims of child sexual abuse and the factors that may contribute to its ...

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