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Reframing Childhood Adversity
Season 4 Episode 6
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a great time to talk about the way we message around child abuse and childhood adversities. The ways in which …
4 years, 1 month ago
Does America Believe Female Sexual Abusers Actually Exist?
Season 4 Episode 5
Does America believe female sexual abusers actually exist? When we think about child sexual abuse, don’t we automatically picture in our mind a fathe…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Surprising Prevalence of Sibling Sexual Abuse
Season 4 Episode 4
When we think about problematic sexual behaviors in youth, we often think of a neighbor child, or someone at school. Someone acting out in the commun…
4 years, 3 months ago
The True Cost of Olympic Gold
Season 4 Episode 3
In recent years, how we look at the Olympics and elite sports has begun to change—driven by cases like that of Larry Nassar, the team doctor who for …
4 years, 3 months ago
Sticks and Stones … But What If Words Do Hurt?
Season 4 Episode 2
Over the past 18 months, systemic and structural discrimination have received widespread—and, let’s face it, much-needed—media attention and public d…
4 years, 4 months ago
How Accurate Is Memory After 20 Years?
Season 4 Episode 1
Over the past two decades, and in many cases because of statute of limitations reform, many adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse have come forwa…
4 years, 4 months ago
Prevention, Healing, & Justice: A Blueprint for Action
Season 3 Episode 18
We're all too familiar with the statistics and issues around child abuse in the U.S. But what do we really know about violence against children globa…
4 years, 5 months ago
Do Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Child Abuse?
Season 3 Episode 17
We’re always very careful to say that poverty doesn’t cause child neglect and abuse. And we don’t want to conflate these things or have people think …
4 years, 6 months ago
Multidisciplinary Teams: What's the Secret Sauce?
Season 3 Episode 16
In today’s episode, we speak with Dr. James Herbert, senior research fellow at the Australian Center for Child Protection, the first Children’s Advoc…
4 years, 6 months ago
Sexual Behavior in Youth: What's Normal? What's Not? And What Can We Do About It?
Season 3 Episode 15
When we first met Dr. Jane Silovsky years ago, talking about youth with problematic sexual behaviors, it was a pervasive myth in the Children’s Advoc…
4 years, 7 months ago