May News and Updates
Join Us at These Exciting Upcoming Events!
APSAC's 25th Anniversary Colloquium -  June 12-16, 2018
Early Bird Pricing Ends May 14 - Register Now! 


Improve your skills while celebrating with friends and colleagues in the Big Easy! This year's Colloquium features 7 advanced training institutes, 58 advanced training workshops, and 60 information/discussion roundtables which address all aspects of child maltreatment including prevention, cultural issues assessment, intervention and treatment with victims, perpetrators and families affected by physical, sexual and psychological abuse and neglect. 

The Colloquium will include pre-conference institutes on topics ranging from Psychological Maltreatment to Trauma-Focused CBT, plenaries by Rev. Darrell LaRue Armstrong and Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau, and workshops designed for child protection, forensic interviewers, attorneys, law enforcement, practitioners in mental health, medicine and nursing, prevention, and public policy, and professional development for students and young professionals.

Continuing Education credits will be available for psychology, social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, law, law enforcement, and nursing.

Planning on attending the Colloquium? Be sure to check out our exciting events - including a Second Line parade and out exclusive French Quarter Balcony Benefit!

APSAC Forensic Interview Clinics

June 4-8, 2018, New Orleans, LA
July 9-13, 2018, Seattle, WA
October 22-26, 2018, Norfolk, VA

Interviews with children have received intense scrutiny in recent years and increasingly require specialized training and expertise. APSAC pioneered the Forensic Interview Training Clinic model to focus on the needs of professionals responsible for conducting forensic/investigative interviews with children in suspected abuse cases. This comprehensive clinic offers a unique opportunity to participate in an intensive training experience and have personal interaction with leading experts in the field of child forensic interviewing. Developed by top experts, APSAC's curriculum teaches a structured narrative interview approach that emphasizes best practices based on research and is guided by best interests of the child. Attendees will receive a balanced review of several protocols and will develop their own customized narrative interview approach based on the principles taught during the Clinic and contained in the  APSAC Practice Guidelines on Forensic Interviewing in Cases of Suspected Child Abuse.
 

Interested in attending but need funding?  We have some options:

1. Work with APSAC to apply for community foundation funding to attend.
2. Law Enforcement may be eligible for partial scholarships through the Katie Toth Memorial Fund. 

Contact Bri Stormer to learn more about these funding opportunities.

APSAC offers customized training to fit your community's needs!  
Contact Jim Campbell, Training Coordinator for more information. 
New from APSAC!
Child Maltreatment - Volume 28, Issue 2 

APSAC is pleased to bring you the latest issue of 
Child Maltreatment. Below is the table of contents for this issue:
  • Latent Classes and Cumulative Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Intergenerational Transmissions of Trauma: Maternal Trauma-Related Cognitions and Toddler Symptoms (Read a research-to-practice brief on this article here)
  • Predicting Sexual Revictimization in Childhood and Adolescence: A Longitudinal Examination Using Ecological Systems Theory
  • Mothers' Personal and Interpersonal Function as Potential Mediators Between Maternal Maltreatment History and Child Behavior Problems
  • Sexual Abuse of Children with Learning Disabilities
  • Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Young Adults to Experienced Foster Care
  • Maltreatment, Coping, and Substance Use in Youth in Foster Care: Examination of Moderation Models
  • The "Good Old Days" of Courtroom Questioning: Changes in the Format of Child Cross-Examination Questions Over 60 years
  • When is a Child's Forensic Statement Deemed Credible? A Comparison of Physical and Sexual Abuse Cases 
From the APSAC Center for Child Policy: the Digest of Child Maltreatment Reporting Laws and Interactive Map 

Last month, the APSAC Center for Child Policy brought you the 
Digest of Child Maltreatment Reporting Laws,  a comprehensive collection of the most current reporting laws from every jurisdiction in both the United States and in Australia. Now, you can quickly access information from this resource on an interactive map on the Center for Child Policy website. The map displays a summary of laws a link to download the section of laws for each state. 

As the laws are revised, the information in the Digest will be updated. If any APSAC members are interested in helping to keep their state's laws updated with the most current legislative revisions contact info@centerforchildpolicy.org. You will be credited as an editor of the resource.


Announcing the Release of  Understanding Child Maltreatment 2016


The annual release of federal C hild Maltreatment reports provides an opportunity for advocates to highlight issues within the Child Protective Services systems, including the wide variations among states in definitions, policy and practice; the existence of millions of screened out cases; the relative costs of prevention; and the overwhelming presence of child neglect in the system.  Understanding Child Maltreatment 2016 contains information about these topics, as well as others, and presents that information in a way that is useful for state-level messaging and advocacy.

Understanding Child Maltreatment 2016 is the 6th edition of this report. Covering data for the year 2016, the report  is distributed to help ensure that data published  in the annual Child Maltreatment series is interpreted and applied  considering all aspects of its reliability and validity. This  report was originally commissioned by Prevent Child Abuse America.

 If you are interested in a state-specific  presentation on this data and its' uses for advocacy and public education, please  contact APSAC.
    


New Member Benefit!! 
Access Past Issues of the  Advisor and  Alert Online! 

Members can now access nearly 30 years of the  APSAC Advisor  and nearly 10 years of the  APSAC Alert online in an indexed, searchable library. To access this extraordinary collection, click the link below to log in as a member, then click the link that says, "Access the New APSAC Online Library of Past Advisor and Alert Issues!" 

Opportunities to Write for APSAC
Submit to the APSAC Advisor

The APSAC Advisor welcomes manuscripts addressing important topics in practice, policy, and theory, including empirical research articles, review articles, and program evaluations. Regular articles should be 4,000-6,000 words, inclusive of tables, figures and references. Controversial topics can be addressed by an "At Issue" article. Brief program descriptions for the "What's New and Who's Doing It" section will also be accepted, limited to no more than 1,000-2,000 words including tables, figures, and references. 

S ubmissions should be prepared according to the   guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). All submissions should have all of the authors' names, degrees and contact information on the first page, an abstract of approximately 120 words, and brief biographies (50 words) at the end. All submissions and questions should be sent to the Manager of Publications at  info@apsac.org.  Please feel free to download the  APSAC Advisor Style Guide  and the  APSAC Advisor Guidelines for Authors
 to help you in preparing your submission.
Write Research to Practice Briefs for APSAC 

In order for APSAC to achieve our goal of strengthening practice through knowledge, we must ensure that up-to-date, high quality research results are reaching the practitioners who need it most. To accomplish this, APSAC is assembling cadres of individuals working in psychology, social work, medicine, child welfare, and law to write 500-word translational summaries of articles from  Child Maltreatment. These briefs will be designed to provide clear policy and practice implications of the research useful to people working in different disciplines. Briefs may appear in the   APSAC Advisor, the APSAC Alert , on the APSAC website, and in other places as needed.
 
If you are interested in writing these translational pieces, contact  Bri Stormer.
Member News
APSAC Member Authors Dying to Be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception 

APSAC member Dr. Marc Feldman
presents DYING TO BE ILL: TRUE STORIES OF MEDICAL DECEPTION, which he describes as "an unprecedented book drawn from his 25 years of studying daunting diagnoses such as factitious disorder, Munchausen by proxy (MBP), and malingering." Several members of APSAC's MBP Task Force contributed personal narratives to supplement almost 50 from patients, law enforcement, educators, nurses, therapists, survivors, CPS workers, and others. This range reflects the fact that these problems present to a wide variety of professionals, and all should be aware. The book is available at Amazon or through Dr. Feldman's website.
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Resources to Inform Your Work
From The American Bar Association
From ChildTrends
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