James Clark

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