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Show Child abuse to be main topic at 5-day conference at USU Child abuse, one of the most emotionally charged issues in today's society, is among the topics of a five-day five-day conference that begins June 15 at Utah State University. Uni-versity. Registration is ongoing for the ninth annual Conference on Infancy and Childhood sponsored by USU's Department of Psychology and the Early Intervention In-tervention Research Institute. Experts share their feelings on sexually abused and traumatized children, ritualistic abuse and treatment of children and families of abuse. According to Dr. Frank Ascione, conference director and associate professor of psychology at USU, the meeting format features one guest scholar each day; in most cases the guest acts as respondent to the following day's expert. Participants in the conference may earn undergraduate or graduate credit or continuing education edu-cation credit at USU. The topic is of particular interest to psychologists, educators, social work and juvenile justice workers and students of psychology and family and human development, Ascione said. This year's staff includes Barbara Boat, faculty member in the Division of Child Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and Gary Peterson, Department of Psychiatry, both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Stephen Bavolek, president of Family Development De-velopment Resources in Park City; Robert Emery, Jr., from the Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and John Richters, assistant chief of the Child and Adolescent Disorders Research Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Md. Boat specializes her research to sexually abused and traumatized children, ritualistic child abuse and child rearing by parents with multiple personality disorders. Peterson looks at the causes and treatment of personality personali-ty disorders in children, adolescents and adults and intervention in-tervention involving children, spouses and extended families. Bavolek is an expert in strategies for preventing child abuse and alternatives to physical punishment, as well as building nurturing skills in dysfunctional families. Emery focuses his research on how abusive relationships and family violence develops, divorce, custody mediation and children's adjustment. Community violence effects on children and the risk, vulnerability and protective factors of psychopathology are specialties of Richters. He also will explain conduct disorder and report on his studies with children of depressed mothersthe anatomy of high risk family life. For registration information, contact Conference and Institute Division, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5005, or call 750-1690. For conference details call Ascione, 750-1464. |
