Episode 5: Anonymity Through Technology: Empowering Kids to Reach Out About Abuse
Release Date: 10/06/2020
Episode 5: Anonymity Through Technology: Empowering Kids to Reach Out About Abuse
Promoting Resilience
Dr. Catherine Cerulli, Psychiatry Professor at the University of Rochester, is joined by Dr. Laura Schwab Reese, Public Health Assistant Professor at Purdue University, to discuss national talk, text, and chat lines that respond to child abuse. The importance of these technologies is discussed as they can directly respond to children using tools they use daily. Also, Dr. Schwab Reese has identified ways to improve how counselors relate to kids when using these services to build greater trust and autonomy.
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Episode 4: Support Over Silence
Promoting Resilience
Dr. Catherine Cerulli is joined by her guest, Dr. Nancy Weaver, to discuss how we can apply communication sciences, analytics and public health principles to promote healthy and positive parenting to reduce the prevalence of childhood abuse and neglect. Dr. Weaver created Support Over Silence for KIDS to educate community member’s tangible skills to listen empathetically to parents and caregivers in situations where tensions rise to help deescalate what’s happening in the moment.
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Episode 3: Resiliency in Schools: Building and Sustaining Partnerships
Promoting Resilience
Dr. Catherine Cerulli, is joined by her guest, Dr. Shaun Nelms - superintendent at the East Upper/Lower Schools in Rochester NY - to talk about how we can create a replicable school reform model that can transform the way we think about schools as centers for public health promotion. By meeting the youth’s basic needs and growing partnerships with families and community-based agencies, we can improve health, prevent child abuse and neglect, and break intergenerational trajectories of poverty and violence.
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Episode 2: Responding to Childhood Abuse and Neglect: What’s Race Got To Do With It?
Promoting Resilience
This podcast will focus on the role of race in child welfare, reporting, investigating, and responding. Host, Dr. Catherine Cerulli, a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester, is joined by guest, Dr. Natalie A. Cort to explore the intersection and complex relationship between race and the crisis of child abuse and neglect. Dr. Cort is a Clinical Psychologist who educates future mental health clinicians and seeks to end implicit biases sometimes held by social service providers and clinicians.
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Episode 1: Creating Resiliency
Promoting Resilience
This podcast will inform us on how to support childrens’ resiliency in the face of COVID-19 to prevent future child abuse and neglect. Host, Dr. Catherine Cerulli, a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester, is joined by guest, Dr. Jody Manly, an internationally recognized researcher and clinician at the Mt. Hope Family Center, in Rochester, New York, who examines developmentally appropriate interventions to reduce the harmful effects of child abuse and neglect.
info_outlineHost, Dr. Catherine Cerulli, a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester, is joined by her guest, Dr. Laura Schwab Reese, to discuss national talk, text, and chat lines that respond to child abuse. Speaking to the need for translational science to prevent abuse, Dr. Schwab Reese delves into the importance of these technologies as they can directly respond to children using technologies children use every day. The anonymity can empower them to reach out about their abuse. Through various analyses, Dr. Schwab Reese has identified ways to improve how counselors relate to kids when using these services. These techniques can create greater trust between both parties and help build autonomy so kids feel confident to participate in decision making. A discussion of mandatory reporting and ways to best support children’s understanding of the process is also included in this conversation. Dr. Schwab Reese is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Purdue University. Her research focuses on how young people use social media and other technology to share, process, and seek help related to child abuse and neglect as well as creating practice models that guide professionals to converse more effectively with victims through these networks.
Sound engineering and music by Joe Hagen. (Recorded August 2020)