3-188 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Address the Complexities of Child Maltreatment

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Child maltreatment has proven to be a highly complex issue. While substantial progress has been made in approximately fifty years of attention to the issue, significant gaps remain concerning its etiology, out-comes, prevalence and distribution, as well as strategies for prevention and intervention. This panel will address the complexity of child maltreatment by bringing together an interdisciplinary panel to discuss cutting edge research and opportunities for future interdisciplinary collaboration. The disciplines represented include anthropology, developmental psychology, epidemiology, and social welfare. The panel will address longitudinal outcomes for development and health, contextual factors associated with maltreatment, and epidemiological methods to identify risk and protective factors. Approaches and methods to promote interdisciplinarity that include mixed methods, qualitative and quantitative designs, epidemiology, and “big data” approaches will be included in the presentations. The symposium includes a discussant who has had significant leadership roles in national panels guiding research and policy related to child maltreatment. Discussion with audience participants will be focused on promoting interdisciplinary collaborations. This panel symposium is sponsored by the SRCD Interdisciplinary Committee and addresses SRCD Strategic Goal 3: “SRCD will reflect the fact that an understanding of development requires the perspectives and methods of multiple disciplines.”

Sub Unit

• Health, Growth, Injury

Chairs

• Lorah D Dorn, University of Cincinnati

• Jill Korbin, Case Western Reserve University

Discussant

• Anne C Petersen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Individual Presentations

• Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Across Development - Presenting Author: Jennie G. Noll, Penn State University

• An Epidemiological Examination of Intergenerational Child Protective Service Involvement - Presenting Author: Emily Putnam-Hornstein, University of Southern California; Julie A Cederbaum, University of Southern California; Bryn King, University of California at Berkeley; Penelope K Trickett, Univ of Southern Calif

• Neighborhood Conditions and Child Maltreatment: Changing Patterns 1990-2010 in an Urban U.S. Setting - Presenting Author: James Spilsbury, Case Western Reserve University; Tirth Bhatta, Case Western Reserve University; Jill Korbin, Case Western Reserve University; Claudia J Coulton, Case Western Reserve University; David Crampton, Case Western Reserve University