Innovative Methods in Child Maltreatment Research
DAY 1: Thursday, September 2: President’s Hall 1-4 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Arrival and Registration
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks - Chad Shenk, PhD, Conference Chair
Session 1: New Methods for Engaging, Collecting, and Analyzing Data
8:45 – 9:30 a.m. The Science of Stakeholder Engagement in Research: Development and Validation of Evaluation Metrics -- Melody Goodman, PhD, New York University
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. Using Innovative Methods to Quantify Online Internet Behaviors as Risk Factors for Internet Initiated Victimization Among Sexually Abused Females -- Jennie Noll, PhD, Penn State University
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. BREAK (continental breakfast)
10:30 – 11:15 a.m. Leveraging Emotion Socialization Research to Innovative Prevention and Intervention Programming for Vulnerable Families -- Anne Shaffer, PhD, University of Georgia
11:15 – 12:00 p.m. Innovative Methods for the Investigation of Mediating Mechanisms in Child Maltreatment Studies -- David MacKinnon, PhD, Arizona State University and Linda J. Luecken, PhD, Arizona State University
12:00 – 12:15 p.m. Discussion / Audience Questions
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. LUNCH – The Garden’s Restaurant
Session 2: Advances in Interventions for the Child Maltreatment Population
1:15 – 2:00 p.m. A Vision for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Optimization of Multicomponent Behavioral Interventions -- Kate Guastaferro, PhD, Penn State University
2:00 – 2:45 p.m. Reminiscing and Emotion Training: A Relational Intervention Approach for Maltreated Preschool-Aged Children and Their Mothers -- Kristin Valentino, PhD, Notre Dame University
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. BREAK (refreshments provided)
3:00 – 3:45 p.m. A Trauma-informed Approach to the Unified Protocol for Children with Exposure to Child Maltreatment -- Jill Ehrenreich-May, PhD, University of Miami and Gina Dimitropoulos, PhD, University of Calgary
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Implementation of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Low-Resourced Settings in the US and Latin America: Leveraging Implementation Science & Technology to Reach Underserved Youth -- Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Discussion / Audience Questions
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks - Chad Shenk, PhD
DAY 2: Friday, September 3: President’s Hall 1-4 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Arrival and Registration
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks - Chad Shenk, PhD, Conference Chair
Session 3: Improving the Detection of Child Maltreatment and Risk for Adverse Health
8:45 – 9:30 a.m. From Index Case to Cluster Randomized Trial: A Journey to Reduce Missed Abusive Head Trauma -- Kent Hymel, MD, Penn State College of Medicine
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. Understanding Variation in Health Risks across Development and Child Welfare Involvement for Youth in Foster Care -- Sarah Beal, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. BREAK (continental breakfast)
10:30 – 11:15 a.m. Prospective Versus Retrospective Measures of Child Maltreatment and Their Relationship with Health -- Jessie Baldwin, PhD, University College London
11:15 – 12:00 p.m. Innovative Methods for Controlling Contamination Bias in Child Maltreatment Research -- Chad Shenk, PhD, Penn State University
12:00 – 12:15 p.m. Discussion / Audience Questions
Session 4: Poster Session
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Poster Presentations – President's Hall 1-4 (in-person) and LUNCH – The Garden’s Restaurant
Session 5: Future Directions for Innovation on Child Maltreatment
1:15 - 2:00 p.m. HEAL PA: The Movement to Make PA a Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered State -- Daniel Jurman, DMin, State of PA Office of Advocacy and Reform
2:00 – 2:45 p.m. Predictive Risk Model for GPS Screening Decisions: An Overview of Northampton County’s Decision Aid Tool -- Susan Wandalowski, Director, Northampton County Human Services
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. BREAK (refreshments provided)
3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Training New Scholars in Child Maltreatment Science: The T32 Program at Penn State -- Yo Jackson, PhD, Penn State University
3:45 – 4:15 p.m. General Discussion / Audience Questions
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Announcement of Poster Award Winners
4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks - Chad Shenk, PhD