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Why Don't More Teachers Report Abuse? Understanding the Challenges and Solutions

In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar speaks with Amanda Glouchkow, a Research Assistant at the University of Ottawa, about the complexities teachers face in identifying and reporting child abuse. They discuss the accuracy of teachers identifying various forms of abuse, the inconsistency in reporting, and the international differences in training and cultural norms. The conversation explores underlying factors such as teacher training, beliefs, and systemic support, highlighting the need for better preparation and support for teachers as mandatory reporters. Amanda also shares surprising findings from her research and emphasizes the importance of improving training and support for educators.


Glouchkow's study:

Glouchkow, A., Weegar, K. & Romano, E. Teachers’ Responses to Child Maltreatment. Journ Child Adol Trauma 16, 95–108 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-022-00473-2 

Topics in this episode

Time    Topic

00:00   Introduction and Episode Overview

01:18   Meet Amanda Glouchkow: From Design to Child Abuse Research

02:52   Global Variations in Child Abuse Reporting

05:58   Barriers to Child Abuse Detection and Reporting

11:03   Surprising Findings on Abuse Identification

15:48   Study Design and Methodology

28:02   Implications for Training and Support

35:28   Future Research and Final Thoughts

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How do we persuade people more effectively and more authentically? And how does telling our own leadership story help those we’re trying to persuade to trust us and what we’re trying to do? Storytelling, and using it to make human connections, is a key part of the answer. We spoke with Sally Zimney, the author of Speaking Story, to learn more.

 Topics in this episode:

02:41 – Origin story

06:22 – Storytelling is having a moment

11:27 – Female leaders, storytelling, and leadership

15:14 – What is a story?

16:58 – Misconceptions about storytelling

19:33 – Find your own story

29:52 – What the audience needs from you

33:06 – How do you want people to feel?

35:13 – Editing

37:49 – Terrible advice

39:39 – Preparing (great advice)

44:46 – Perfection kills connection

51:01 – For more information

 Links:

Sally Zimney is the author of Speaking Story; visit her website at bemoved.com

Sally was the closing speaker at the 2024 NCA Leadership Conference

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While the presence of child sexual abuse images in child sexual abuse cases is not new, the sheer scale and scope and ubiquity of it all is. The exponential growth in the trading of these images has created a sophisticated marketplace designed around exploiting children. Three guests join us today to discuss child sexual abuse materials online (CSAM): Elizabeth and Ted Cross and Stefan Turkheimer. 

What Liz and Ted set out to learn was the degree to which incest played into the production of this material, what types of sex acts those trading in CSAM were most interested in, and what ages were most common among the child victims. It’s terribly disturbing but also important for us to understand in order to properly combat it.  

We speak with Stefan about important policy implications. What can policy makers do to hold tech companies more responsible for preventing the proliferation of these materials? And how do we leverage the resources needed to serve victims? Please take a listen.

Topics in this episode:

• The scope of the problem (2:06)
• A sea of red dots (4:16)
• Research design (12:35)
• Findings (20:41)
• Severity of abuse (24:03)
• The link with incest (28:45)
• Public policy (30:25)
• Implications for practice (38:29)
• For more information (41:25)

Links:

Elizabeth Cross, Ph.D., Cross Associates Research & Evaluation Services, LLC, and adjunct professor of social work and child advocacy at Montclair State University

Theodore Cross, Ph.D., senior research specialist – research professor, Children and Family Research Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Stefan Turkheimer, vice president for public policy, RAINN

NCMEC CyberTipline

Child Rescue Coalition 

Map and severity of abuse list from a presentation by Cross, Cross, Cooper, Turkheimer, and Bailey to the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Congress

Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC)

Camille Cooper

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

EARN IT Act

Project Safe Childhood Act

Child Rescue Act

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Episode 106: “Treating the Smoke and Not the Fire” is a conversation about a new documentary, Cracked Up—an emotionally arresting, trauma-informed look at the lifelong consequences when we fail to protect a child. In Cracked Up, filmmaker Michelle Esrick chronicles Saturday Night Live star Darrell Hammond’s journey from childhood trauma, through decades of misdiagnoses of its effects, toward hope and healing. The duo talk about what drove them to make the film and how they hope it will help change the conversation about child abuse. As Michelle says, too often society treats the smoke—things like addiction and mental illness—and not the fire—the very experiences that caused them in the first place.

Topics in this episode:

·         What drove them to make Cracked Up (2:20)

·         What they didn’t know at the start of the journey (4:34)

·         Trauma is when your reality is not seen or known (8:04)

·         Telling a survivor’s story with respect and without causing them further harm (9:36)

·         A hunger to call out the bad guy, and to be believed (12:14)

·         The consequences of trusting your own reality (14:23)

·         The haunted house—the shock a simple thought can cause (23:18)

·         Trauma, substance use, and addiction: Treating the smoke and not the fire (28:25)

·         The investment in disbelief. It’s hard to shatter images—and monsters hide in the light (35:23)

·         Public policy: What would you like to see changed? (39:38)

·         How to set up an educational screening of Cracked Up (41:35)

·         Our next episode topic (42:00)

Links:

Cracked Up movie website

Darrell and Michelle, NPR radio interview on WNYC (at 34:25)

Darrell’s book about his experiences

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and The Body Keeps the Score

Dr. Nabil Kotbi

Penny Dreadful

With Dr. Jacob Ham in “The Long Arm of Childhood Trauma” episode of the Road to Resilience podcast

Dr. Vincent Felitti, co-principal investigator of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

Dr. Bruce Perry

Host an educational screening of Cracked Up

Resources on the Cracked Up movie website

And the $10 million we’d like to see the government spend is to give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for research into preventing child abuse. Learn more about that in our interview on “Child Abuse as a Public Health Issue” with Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau.

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Episode 105: “The Science of Storytelling” features Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute, which works to change the conversation on social issues. We discussed how to get people to engage in conversations about an uncomfortable topic—child sexual abuse. What should we change about our own messaging to give people hope that they can do something about it? We also discussed a new research project into communication strategies on this issue, and when we might learn the results.

Topics in this episode:

·         The most surprising result of research into child sexual abuse. (1:47)

·         How we talk about the issue can be a problem. What should we stop doing? (5:11)

·         Pivoting—our biggest communication challenge. (13:28)

·         When people think monsters are the root cause, what’s the solution? (18:42)

·         Balanced messaging. (21:17)

·         Talk about progress without losing urgency. (26:25)

·         When death won’t do it in driving a sense of urgency, what will? (29:38)

·         The “snapping” myth. (33:05)

·         Current research on communication strategies—and when we’ll get results. (37:43)

·         Summing it all up. (41:36)

·         Our next episode topic. (43:42)

Links:

FrameWorks Institute

Crimes Against Children Research Center

Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau at the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Letourneau was our very first guest on One in Ten, in the episode on “Child Abuse as a Public Health Issue.” 

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Episode 104: “The Failure That Leads to All Others,” features Mary Graw Leary, a former prosecutor and a professor at The Catholic University of America School of Law. Why does child sexual abuse seem to flourish in institutional settings? How can institutions prevent abuse? And when prevention fails, how must institutions respond?

Link:

The Catholic University of America School of Law

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In Episode 103: The Bystander Effect—Why People Don’t Report Child Abuse, Wendy Walsh, a research assistant professor of sociology at the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, talks about why people shy away from reporting suspected child abuse—and how we can overcome those barriers.

Links:

Crimes Against Children Research Center

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In Episode 102, “Faith, Trauma, and the Problem of Evil,” Teresa talks to renowned writer and trainer Victor Vieth from Zero Abuse Project about the intersection of faith and child protection. How do we respond when children struggle to understand what happened to them in the context of their faith? How can we help survivors and frontline professionals who wrestle with the human need to make sense of a world where we bear witness to trauma every day? As a Christian theologian and a former prosecutor, Victor knows the importance of learning how to handle when faith, trauma, and the problem of evil collide.

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Research indicates that 15-20 percent of girls and 5-10 percent of boys in the United States are affected by child sexual abuse. Those are numbers that should make everyone sit up and take notice, and yet one of the biggest funding gaps we see in our field is the lack of government support for research on how to prevent this abuse. Instead of a public health issue, child sexual abuse is still seen by many as a criminal justice problem. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse about what policies she sees as fundamentally flawed, where the bright spots are, and why prevention should be a federal priority.

Mentioned in this episode:

Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)

David Finkelhor, Ph.D.

Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jane Silovsky, Ph.D.

Safe Dates

Shifting Boundaries

NCA resources for addressing youth and children with problematic sexual behaviors

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The rise in myths and conspiracy theories about human trafficking have been one of the most frustrating parts of being a child abuse professional over the past few years. It has been a deadly game of whack a mole, because as soon as one myth or conspiracy theory is debunked, yet another arises.

Dr. Maureen Kenny, a professor of psychology at Florida International University, set out to explore why and how these conspiracy theories were endorsed by a diverse college population in hopes that this would give us insight into better education strategies for the wider public. If you have ever moaned and groaned your way through a media report with whackadoodle ideas about trafficking or rolled your eyes at a movie that depicted it all wrong, this episode is for you. Please take a listen.

Topics in this episode:

• Origin story (1:55)
• What is human trafficking? (3:01)
• Why the uptick in myths and conspiracy theories? (5:06)
• Why we want to believe (13:13)
• Language choices (16:42)
• What kids need to know (18:49)
• Surprising findings (22:41)
• The scale of misinformation (24:41)
• Influencing the influencers (26:15)
• Future research (31:27)
• Advice for child abuse professionals (37:40)
• One bright note (38:50)
• For more information (40:10)

Links:

Maureen C. Kenny, Ph.D., professor, associate chair Academic Personnel and Diversity, Florida International University

“Conspiracy Theories of Human Trafficking: Knowledge and Perceptions Among a Diverse College Population,” Maureen C. Kenny, Claire Helpingstine, and Tracy Borelus (2023), Journal of Human Trafficking, DOI: 10.1080/23322705.2023.2225367

The study Teresa mentions: “‘Influencing the Influencers:’ A Field Experimental Approach to Promoting Effective Mental Health Communication on TikTok,” Matt Motta, Yuning Liu, and Amanda Yarnell (2023); there are multiple news stories about the study, including a recent NPR article by Andrea Muraskin (January 5, 2024)

Dr. Kenny suggests these websites to learn more about myths and facts of human trafficking:

• Polaris Project 
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Trafficking In Persons, OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Exposing the Myths of Human Trafficking (hhs.gov) 
• National Human Trafficking Hotline: Myths & Facts

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