Memberships
Cincinati Psychoanalytic Institute,
Board of Directors;
2013 - 2015
American Psychological Association,
Member;
2010 - 2013
American Public Health Association,
Member;
2010 - 2013
American Psychological Association--Law Society,
Member;
2010 - 2013
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research,
Member;
2010 - 2013
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research,
Member;
2010 - 2013
National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Judges' Bench Card Committee (Co-Chair); Member, Justice Consortium ,
Chairperson;
2009 - present
National Federation of Societies for Clinical Social Work--Committee on Social Work in the Law,
Member;
2004 - 2007
Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work ,
Member;
2002 - 2004
National Institute of Mental Health,
Fellow;
1989 - present
National Association of Social Work Kentucky ,
Board of Directors;
1984 - 1988
University of Kentucky,
Fellow;
1982 - present
Professional Presentations
Infant Neuroscience and domestic violence trauma: Implications for assessment and treatment;
Domestic Relations Court; City of Cincinnati, Ohio; 2015
Forensic Social Work: Evidence-Informed & Evidenced-Based Approaches;
Social Work and the Law; Spalding University; 2014
Robert Coles & the Promise of Personology;
Annual Meeting of the Society of Personology; University of California at Berkley; 2014
Promoting Trauma Informed Legal Practice: Bench Card for the Trauma Informed Judge;
The 21st Annual Children's Law Institute; Children's Law Institute, Albuquerque, NM; 2014
Robert Coles: The Public Intellectual as Anti-Intellectual?;
Public Intellectuals Conference; Longfellow Hall, Harvard University; 2014
Robert Coles and the Political Life of Children;
European Conference on Public Intellectuals; Fundacio Luso-Americana & Harvard University, Lisbon, Portugal; 2014
Traumatic Violence and the Public Intellectual: Explaining the Unexplainable;
Third Annual Conference on Public Intellectuals; Harvard University; 2013
Clinical Social Work with Persons not Disorders: Lessons from adult and pediatric forensics;
Workshop; Southern Ohio Clinical Social Work Society; 2012
Crafting a Public Psychoanalysis: Robert Coles' Children of Crisis;
Second Annual Conference on Public Intellectuals; Harvard University; 2012
Trauma Exposure Among Drug Endangered Children;
139th APHA Annual Meeting; APHA, Washington, DC; 2011
Factors Impacting Treatment Completion in Traumatized Youth: What Can Make a Difference?;
27th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies; International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies; 2013
Impacts of Violence, Maltreatment, and Trauma Exposures for Child Nuerodevelopment: Forensic and Legal Implications;
National Conference of Juvenile & Family Court Judges; Child Abuse and Neglect Institute; 2011
"In the South these Children Prophesy": Robert Coles' Documentary Argument;
Second Annual Conference on Public Intellectuals; Harvard University; 2011
Advancing Trauma Informed Court Systems;
All Network Meeting; National Child Traumatic Stress Network; 2011
Caregiver drug use and arrest as correlates of child trauma exposure;
18th Annual National Colloquium ; The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children; 2010
Prevalence of Drug Exposure in Drug Endangered Children;
24th Annual Meeting; International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies; 2008
Violence Against Children: From Neuroscience to Social Practice;
UK Medical School Dean's Distinguished Lecture; University of Kentucky; 2007
Factors Impacting Trauma Practice Patterns: The Convergence/Divergence of Science and Practice;
22nd Annual Meeting; International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies; 2006
Theory in the Courtroom;
Doctoral Theory Seminar; The University of Chicago School of Social Services Adminstration; 2005
Evidence Based Decision Making and Child Welfare Interventions;
Workshop; Office of Family and Children's Services, Province of Prince Edward Island, Canada; 2004
2004-2013 "NCTSN Benchcard for the Trauma Informed Judge" "Violence, attachment, and brain development" "The Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment overlap" "Mental Health Experts: Daubert and Testimony in Family Law Cases";
Training Series for Judicial Colleges/Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts: Presentations to State Supreme Court Justices; Circuit, District, & Family Court Judges; Domestic Commissioners; Chief Justices of KY, TN, TX, SC Supreme Courts; National Child Traumatic Stress Network; 2013
Promoting youth resilience in families identified at high risk of child maltreatment: Putting the social ecology to work for kids;
Pathways to Resilience II Conference: The Social Ecology of Resilience; Halifax, Newfoundland, Canada; 2010
Training judges and other members of the bar about domestic violence and child maltreatment;
Workshop; Office of the Attorney General, Province of Prince Edward Island, Canada; 2004
Predicting Child Maltreatment Severity Using Multidimensional Assessments;
20th Annual Meeting; International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies; 2004
Achieving Permanency by assessing and meeting the mental health needs of children in the child welfare system: The UK CATS Project;
National Center for Children's Mental Health Training Institutes; Georgetown University; 2002
