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B Workshops - Monday, April 21, 2008: 1:15-2:45PM |
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B Workshops
B-01Adolescent Development Car Insurers Say Teens Are Missing Part of their Brains! (Part 1 of 2)
Based on child development research and teen brain studies, this workshop will explore how immaturity, disabilities, and trauma weave together to explain the behavior of adolescents. Interviewing runaway/homeless youth, delinquents and teens in foster care, engaging them in a change process, and designing developmentally-sound services to meet their needs will be enhanced by using this approach to understanding each youth's unique combination of immaturity, disabilities and trauma.
Speaker: Marty Beyer, PhD
Level: All Levels
B-02Bullying: Mandating an Impossible End (Working to Curb Bullying)
Bullying has been a problem since the dawn of time. The problem has become so prevalent that a mandate has been created to provide bullying prevention in the schools. Though the issue is timeless and ceaseless, knowledge and strategies are useful in limiting bullying activities. This presentation will serve to delineate the cycle of bullying, debunk the myths associated with bullying that keeps the cycle going, discuss the roles of the individuals and groups in the cycle, and to provide methods for assisting in curbing the issue.
Speaker: Elisabeth Bennett, PhD/Abigail Wenig, MA
Level: All Levels
B-03How Not To Help The Defense Attorney In Child Sexual Abuse Cases (Part 2 of 2)
This program will acquaint law enforcement, prosecutors, medical practitioners, mental health practitioners, child protection caseworkers, and victim assistance agency personnel with the intimate workings of the defense in child sexual abuse cases: the preparation of a defense case, investigative techniques, pretrial motion practice and discovery, examinations before trial, jury selection, defense trial strategy, demonstrative evidence, trial exhibits, cross examination techniques, and courtroom psychology.
Speaker: Lawrence Braunstein, Esq.
Level: Beginning
B-04Youth Who Run Away from Out-of-Home Care
This workshop shares findings from a study of this population based on government data on more than 14,000 foster youth runaways and interviews with 42 youth who had recently run away from care. Child age, race, gender, mental illness, substance abuse, and developmental disability; placement instability; type of placement; and placement with a sibling were predictive of runaway episodes. Youth identify three themes related to running: connections with family, the struggle for autonomy and normalcy, and the crucial role of caseworkers and caregivers.
Speaker: Mark Courtney, PhD
Level: All Levels
B-05
"Protecting the Children of Those Who Protect Our Freedom" (Repeat)
This workshop will focus on the unique stressors of military life on the family and the innovative ways the military is combating violence on the home front. After an overview of recent literature and research regarding child maltreatment in military communities and the effects of deployments on military families - the many positive measures instituted by the Department of Defense to address these issues will be discussed.
Speaker: Barbara Craig, MD
Level: All Levels
B-06Interviewing Culturally Diverse Children and Families about Maltreatment (Part 1 of 2)
Discussing suspected maltreatment with children and families can be difficult and painstaking work. Interviews often become more complicated when the interviewer and interviewee come from different cultural groups. This workshop provides concrete examples and advice for conducting child abuse interviews in ways that welcome diverse families, and elicit the recounting of the most accurate information possible. Examples will be included from diverse cultures.
Speaker: Lisa Fontes, PhD
Level: All Levels
B-07Selection, Engagement and Seduction of Children and Adults by Child Molesters (Part 2 of 2)
During this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to study (via multiple videotaped interviews with sex offenders), some of the etiological factors and operational strategies (grooming tactics) involved in child molestation. The speaker will review some factors that appear to contribute to the development of pedophilic arousal and some of the more common strategies offenders use to seduce and manipulate child victims, adults, families, youth serving organizations and the community at large.
Speaker: Cory Jewell Jensen, MS
Level: All Levels
B-08Effectively Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (Part 1 of 2)
Due to a lack of information and visibility, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (l/g/b/t/q) adolescents face physical, sexual and emotional abuse at home, school, and in society at large. This discussion will include an overview of the stages of sexual identity development, as well as an identification of the physical and emotional stressors experienced by this population. There will be an exploration of the cultural and institutional dynamics that reinforce this abuse. Case examples and videotape interviews of l/g/b/t/q adolescents will be used to further illustrate the challenges faced by this population.
Speaker: Albert Killen-Harvey, LCSW
Level: All Levels
B-09The Ombudsman's Unique Role in Child Protection/Child Welfare
The Washington State Office of the Family and Children's Ombudsman (OFCO) was established by state law to ensure that social service agencies respond reasonably and appropriately to children who may require state protection due to child abuse, neglect or abandonment, and to parents in need of services. The training will provide examples of OFCO interventions in safety-related complaints, and identify practice issues that leave children at risk.
Speaker: Mary Meinig, MSW/Linda Mason Wilgis, JD
Level: Beginning/Intermediate
B-10Preventing and Responding to Child Neglect
While physical and sexual abuse often gets the most media attention, the fact is that neglect occurs far more frequently, both by itself and in conjunction with abuse, than all the other maltreatment types combined. There are many ways to prevent and respond to neglect and help parents meet the basic physical and emotional needs of their children. How do we actually define neglect? What factors-societal, environmental, mental, and others-increase or decrease the risk of neglect? What are its short- and long-term consequences? Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention, a recent addition to the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series will also be discussed.
Speaker: Jeannie Newman, MSW, Sarah Webster
Level: All Levels
B-11The Current State of Assessment and Treatment of Juveniles who Have Sexually Abused (Part 2 of 3)
Research indicates that many things our field has believed in the past about sexual aggression have turned out not to be true. This workshop explores what we know and don't know about the assessment and treatment of youth who have sexually abused. It includes recent research into recidivism, treatment outcome, and what works with this most challenging and diverse population. It also includes suggestions for appropriate measures and treatment strategies.
Speaker: David S. Prescott, LICSW
Level: All Levels
B-12Intercultural Competence: The Alchemy of Resilience to Create Caring Communities (Part 2 of 2)
Participants will learn, why and how culture is a creative and essential resource for effectively addressing the needs of multicultural families and communities; they will acquire a deeper practical appreciation for how a strong working knowledge of cultural differences becomes a viable strategy for developing a school's assets re: the other 3 R's, resilience, reconciliation, respect; and increase their understanding for why and how tribal traditional knowledge systems work, the relationship between First World knowing, and effective ways to resolve violence in our families, schools, and communities.
Speaker: Raymond Reyes, PhD
Level: All Levels
B-13Reframing Abuse: New Directions for Child Protection
Epidemiologic studies from around the fifty states have shown a real and significant decline in the incidence of sexual abuse over the past decade or more. In 2004, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) commissioned The Frameworks Institute to analyze the challenges before them in preventing child abuse. The study suggested that, while the campaign against child abuse has been successful to date, unless there is a major shift in the way society regards both abuse and those who respond to it on society's behalf, further gains are less likely. The Frameworks Institute's recommendations challenge us all to boldly reconsider our approach to ending child abuse.
Speaker: John Stirling, MD
Level: All Levels
B-14
When a Child Dies: Who's in Charge at the Scene
Panel: Al Noriega Lead Inv./Det. Mike Mellis/Det. Christina Bartlett
Level: All Levels
B-15
Dynamics of Child Abuse
This workshop will help participants gain an understanding of the
dynamics of sexual and physical child abuse, including how children
experience abuse and the impacts on them. Topics will include
prevalence, indicators of abuse and torture of children, along with a
discussion of why children recant. Roland Summit's Child Sexual Abuse
Accommodation Syndrome, as well as Finkelhor and Browne's Traumagenic
Model of Child Sexual Abuse will be reviewed.
Speaker: Kerry Todd, MSW
Level: All Levels
B-16
Speaker: Judicial Panel - Skreen/Callner/Hassett
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