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New funding to support child maltreatment research opportunities
May 16, 2023Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network is supporting a new funding opportunity to support research addressing child maltreament.
Invisible Kids: America’s Journey From Orphanages To Foster Care
May 1, 2023Ravi and Rikki dive into the deep end of the programs that are meant to care for the country’s most vulnerable children: the child-welfare system.
Penn State participates in Child Abuse Prevention Month event at state capital
Apr 19, 2023Child abuse is a public health issue, with child protective services responding to almost 4 million allegations of child maltreatment across the country each year
Scholarships in child maltreatment studies awarded
Apr 11, 2023Congrats to the 2023-24 CMAS scholarship recipients
Congratulations to Dr. Carlo Panlilio
Mar 28, 2023CMSN Faculty Dr. Carlo Panlilio was recently named Editor for the APSAC Advisor (peer reviewed quarterly news journal for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect) and APSAC Alert (digital publication of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children).
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects
Mar 14, 2023Parent-child relationship quality (PCRQ) and parental monitoring (PM) are associated with adolescent behavior problems following child maltreatment (CM). Whether these associations are best characterized as between (trait) or within-person (state) differences is unknown
T32 Fellows get appointments as faculty
Mar 13, 2023Lindsey Palmer – Assistant Professor University of Utah Department of Social Work and Claire Selin – Research Scientist at the Center for Child Deafness, Language and Learning at Boys Town National Research Hospital
Trauma causes high levels of intergenerational substance use among Black women
Mar 6, 2023New research suggests that trauma leads to high levels of intergenerational substance use among Black women, and race and gender may play a role.
Mean affect and affect variability may interact to predict inflammation
Mar 6, 2023Individuals with greater affect variability are at risk for greater systemic inflammation, which is associated with cardiovascular disease.
Trying to Fit a Square Peg in a Round Hole? Testing the Robustness of Maltreatment Measurement Models for Youth
Mar 3, 2023This study is a first step in showing how capturing multiple aspects of the child maltreatment experience can be applied across different and large samples of youth exposed to maltreatment.