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Publications
Guidelines for the Psychosocial Evaluation of Suspected Sexual
Abuse in Young Children
Produced by the APSAC Task Force chaired by Lucy Berliner,
MSW
APSAC members, Board, and hundreds of experts nationwide participated
in the formulation of these important Guidelines. Topics covered
include characteristics of the evaluator, components of the
evaluation, interviewing procedure, the interview, and the report.
Members: First copy free; additional copies $3.00 Non-members:
$7.00
Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Litigation.
by John E. B. Myers, JD; Jan Bays, MD; Judith Becker, PhD;
Lucy Berliner, MSW; David Corwin, MD; and Karen Saywitz, PhD
Bound reprint of 145-page article first published in the Nebraska Law
Review in 1989, (V. 68, n.1-2). A comprehensive, still indispensable
review, with three major sections: "The admissibility of expert
testimony," "Expert testimony based on novel scientific principles,"
and "Categories of expert testimony on child sexual abuse." Opening
and closing overviews bring the issues into sharp focus.
Members: $10.00 Non-members: $20.00
"Journal Highlights" Compilation
A regular feature of The APSAC Advisor, "Journal
Highlights" is an annotated bibliography that alerts professionals to
current literature on child maltreatment. Articles are selected from
J ournals relevant to APSAC' s interdisciplinary membership and
listed by topic area (e.g. Legal Issues, Medical Issues,
Perpetrators, Physical Maltreatment, Psychological Maltreatment,
Sexual Abuse, Professional Issues, etc.). This compilation brings
together all past "Journal Highlights" from the beginning of the
feature in V.2, n.3, up to V.7, n.4 (Winter,1994).
Members: $5.00 Non-members: $10.00
Back Issues of The APSAC Advisor - Contents
Selected
V.2, n.1
"Expert testimony in child abuse cases"
John E.B. Myers, JD "Criteria for judging the
credibility of children's statements about their sexual abuse"
Kathleen Coulborn Failer, PhD, LCSW "The Child Sexual
Behavior Inventory: Preliminary normative data" William N.
Friedrich, PhD1
V.2, n.2
"Impact of legal intervention on sexually
abused children" Desmond Runyan, MD, Mark Everson, PhD, et
al. "Preserving verbal evidence of child abuse: A critical
John E.: Myers, JD "Child custody issues in cases of
suspected child sexual abuse" Linda Canfield Blick, LCSW
V.2, n.3
"Pitfalls in the diagnosis of STDs in
children" Margaret Hammerschlag, MD "Dolls in court?"
John E.B. Myers, JD, and Sue White, PhD "Does
rehabilitating child molesters pay?" Robert Prentty, PhD, and
Ann Burgess, DNSc
V.2, n.4
"Legal evidence of physical child abuse"
John E.B. Myers, JD "Investigating macro cases"
Donna Pence "Principles and pitfalls in forensic
evidence collections Allan De Song, MD
V.3, n.1
"Adult male victims of child sexual abuse"
Robert Kelly, PhD; Virginia McDonald; and Jill Waterman,
PhD "Problems of belief in approaching patients' accounts
of ritual abuse" Jean Goodwin, MD "Guidelines for
HIV testing of sexually abused children" Martin Finked DO
V.3, n.2 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Child Interviews: Current Research and Practice
"Developmental considerations in forensic interviewing"
Karen Saywitz, PhD "Types of questions tot children
alleged to have been sexually abused" Kathleen Coulborn
Failer, PhD, LCSW "Are anatomical dolls too suggestive?"
Mark Everson, PhD, and Barbara Boat, PhD "Beyond
vocabulary: Asking understandable questions" Gina Richardson,
MS
V.3, n.3
"Coping with cross examination" John
E.B. Myers, JD "Medical signs which may mimic sexual abuse"
Jan Bays, MD "The dissociatively disordered child"
Beverly James, MSW
V.3, n.4 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Burnout Prevention
"Vicarious traumatization burnout
prevention: The emotional costs of working with survivors"
Lisa McCann, PhD, and Laurie Pearlman, PhD "Assessing
organizational culture in the social services: Burnout
preventions Marilyn Peterson, MSW "Coping with a
hostile media" Lucy Berliner, MSW; Josephine Bulkley, JD;
Linda Meyer Williams, PhD; and John E.B. Myers, JD
"Professional Exchange" Working with lawyers, Lucy
Berliner, MSW Working with social workers, Paul Stern,
JD Opinion: "Things you should know about surviving in this
field but were too burned out to ask" Kee MacFarlane,
MSW
V.4, n.1
"Surviving in the courtroom: Ten rules of
testifying as an expert witness" Paul Stern, JD
"Identifying Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy" and "Shaken Baby
Syndrome" Alex Levin, MD "Parental stress response
to sexual abuse and ritualistic abuse of children in day care
centers" Susan Kelley, RN, PhD
V.4, n.2 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Promising Programs and Approaches in Child Maltreatment
"Treatment for the long-term effects of child abuse" John
Briere, PhD "Promising techniques and programs in the
treatment of child sexual abuse" William Friedrich,
PhD "Replicating child abuse prevention programs: A word of
caution" Deborah Dare, DSW "Strategies for changing
parental behavior" Patricia Crittenden, PhD
"Evaluating sex offender treatment programs" Robert
Prentky, PhD "Vertical prosecution of child abuse"
John E.B. Myers, JD
V.4, n.3
"Toward new ways of caring: Lessons from
intergenerational research on child maltreatment" Martha
F. Erickson, PhD, and Byron Egeland, PhD "Communicating with
troubled children through the expressive arts" Mary Jean
Meyer, MA "Working with researchers: A guide for clinicians"
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD
V.4, n.4 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Treatment Efforts in Child Abuse and Neglect
"The use of
therapeutic day care" Catherine Ayoub, RN, EdD
"Intervention with substance abusing families" Robert
Kinscherg PhD, and Susan Kelley, RN, PhD "Treatment of boy
victims of sexual abuse" Kathleen Coulborn Falter, PhD,
LCSW "Identification and treatment for children who molest
other children" Toni Cavanaugh Johnson, PhD
"Adolescent sex offenders: Assessment and treatment"
Barbara Bonner, PhD
V.5, n.1
"Child abuse and the media: Twelve tips for
dealing with the press" Deborah Fisher "Assessment
of suspicious burn injuries" Seth Asser, MD "Criminal
investigation of suspicious burn injuries" Phylip J.
Pettier "Medical standards for child abuse photographic
documentation" Lawrence Ricci, MD "A practitioner' s
guide to interpreting research results" Kathleen
Kendall-Tackett, PhD; Linda Meyer Williams, PhD; and Paul Stern,
JD "The health and care of foster children" David L.
Chadwick, MD "Professional Exchange: Videotaping forensic
interviews: Pro or con?" Catherine Stephenson, JD, and
Paul Stern, JD "Admissibility of children's statements of
abuse under the confrontation clause and recent Supreme Court
cases" Josephine Bulkley, JD, and Debra Whitcomb, MS
V5, n.3 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Child and Adult Memory "How children remember and why they
forget"
Nancy W. Perry, PhD "Can therapy induce false
allegations of sexual abuse?" Kathleen Coulborn Failer, PhD,
LCSW "The malleability of memory" Elizabeth Loftus,
PhD "Enhancing children's memory with the cognitive
interview" Karen Saywitz, PhD "Preliminary findings
for the University of California, Davis, Child Memory Study:
Development and testing of interview protocols for young
children" Margaret Steward, PhD "Studying delayed
memories of childhood sexual abuse" John Briere, PhD
"Adult memories of childhood abuse: Preliminary findings from a
longitudinal study" Linda Meyer Williams, PhD
"Misplaced attention to delayed memory" Roland Summit,
MD
V.5, n.4
"The question of objectivity in the survivor
therapist" Diana Elliot, PhD "Failure to thrive"
Randall Alexander, MD, PhD "Pretrial preparation: At
the prosecutor's desk" Sue Marx, JD
V.6, n.1
"Neurodevelopment and the neurophysiology of
trauma I: Considerations for clinical work with maltreated
children" Bruce Perry, MD, PhD "Developmental
consideration in forensic interviews with adolescents"
Wendy Deaton, MFCC, and Michael Hertica "Psychometric
issues for practitioners in child maltreatment" Mark Chaffin,
PhD, and Joel Milner, PhD
V.6, n.2
"Neurodevelopment and the neurophysiology of
trauma II: Clinical work along the alarm-fear-terror continuum"
Bruce Perry, MD, PhD "Enhancing children's resistance
to misleading questions during forensic interviewing"
Dennison Reed, PsyD "The doctrine of family
reunification: Child protection or risk?" Richard Gelles,
PhD Classification of anogenital findings in children with
suspected child abuse: An evolving process" Joyce Adams,
MD
V.6, n.3
"Research on false allegations of sexual
abuse in divorce" Kathleen Coulborn Failer, PhD, LCSW; David
Corwin, MD; and Erna Olatson, PsyD, PhD "The telephone:
Tool or tort?" Ray Rawlins and Dana Gassaway
"Individual treatment of the sexually abused child" Julie
Lipovsky, PhD, and Ann Elliot, PhD "Cultural diversity and
child maltreatment" Jill Korbin, PhD "Fatal child
abuse and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A critical diagnostic
decision" Robert Reece, MD
V.6, n.4 - SPECIAL ISSUE
Home Visitation
"Infant home visitation: One step towards
creation of caring communities" Gary Melton, JD, PhD
"Home visitation: Let's be careful out there" Lucy
Berliner, MSW Home visitation and child abuse: The British
experience" Kevin Browne, PhD "Healthy Start home
visiting: Hawaii's approach" Anne Cohn Donnelly, DPH, and
Leslie Mitchell, MA "Review of research on home visiting for
pregnant women and parents of young children" 