Current Challenges for Professionals Addressing Violence and Abuse
January 26, 2025
8:00 am PT - 4:30 pm PT
· The Parental Alienation Concept and Laws to Limit its Harms in Family Courts
· Reasons to not Show Child Victims their Own Sexual Images in Forensic Interviews
· Educating Health Care Professionals How to Inquire about Adverse Experiences
More detail:
1. In courts, claims of parental alienation are often raised in response to reports of violence between separated parents or child abuse. This can result in prolonged abuse sometimes including murder of children. This session includes an overview of the problem, a mother’s account of her custody dispute culminating in the murder of her 16-year-old son. discussion of the questionable science supporting parental alienation and its recommended treatments, and the development of the federal Kayden’s Law and similar state laws that seek to improve the handling of family law cases that include concerns of violence and abuse.
2. Reasons for not showing child victims their own images and videos of being sexual abused as part of child investigative interviews.
3. Educating health professionals how to inquire about patients’ adverse experiences will be described by a series of speakers, each with substantial experience doing this.
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