It is designed for mental health professionals interested in honing their forensic skills in the area of child maltreatment, and developing their treatment skills with chronically maltreated children. There is growing recognition that various forms of family violence may co-occur within families and that risk of maltreatment recurrence exponentially increases with each new event. Maltreatment is lethal for some of these children.
Children living in violent or neglecting families endure prolonged stress and trauma.
These circumstances may result in children's impaired learning of how to regulate their critical biological systems. A training manual will be provided to participants. Kathryn Kuehnle, Ph.D. For information, please contact Kelly M. Lyon .