Intrafamilial Child Torture: An Emerging Category of Child Maltreatment

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Course Overview

This training will introduce Intrafamilial Child Torture (ICT), a severe form of child abuse where parents or caregivers torture their own children, including physical, sexual, and psychological torture and malicious neglect, to meet the psychopathological needs of the perpetrator. ICT presents with unique family dynamics and perpetrator psychopathology that is different from typical physical and psychological maltreatment. It is often missed or misbelieved due to the extreme nature of the harm, the sophistication of the perpetrator, and its presence among all socio-economic classes, according to clinical data.

This training applies to child-serving professionals from multiple disciplines, including child protection/child welfare, forensic interviewers, pediatricians, pediatric nurses, children's attorneys/GALs, law enforcement, prosecutors, family court judges, mental health providers, and clergy, as well as any mandated reporter. This training is designed for the intermediate to advanced level professional, but beginners and students are encouraged to attend to listen and observe. This training will combine lecture, Q&A, group discussion, and real-life case examples.

Objectives

As a result of participating in this workshop, you will be able to:

• Define Intrafamilial Child Torture for their supervisors and colleagues.
• Identify “red flags” that are concerning for ICT and report them to the authorities as part of mandated reporting.
• Describe how ICT is different from typical physical abuse cases.

Continuing Education

This training is approved for 2 Social Work CE Credits. See additional information below.

Institute for Human Services, provider #1802, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023 – 03/25/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

To earn CE credits, participants must attend the session in its entirety, remain on camera, complete an evaluation, and pay the $10 CE fee at the time of registration.

The Institute for Human Services understands that circumstances arise that may prevent registrants from attending a pre-paid training. A training and continuing education credit (minus Eventbrite platform and any credit card fees) will be refunded if a registrant cancels their training attendance on the registration platform at least 7 days in advance of the training event. If the registrant does not cancel within 7 days of the continuing education session, no refund will be issued.

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Reminder: This virtual workshop will take place from 1 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST. Please make note of the time zone.

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Pamela J. Miller, JD, MSW, LISW-S, is a clinical social worker and attorney with expertise in trauma and child abuse law. Since 2019, she has led the Child Maltreatment Policy Resource Center’s Intrafamilial Child Torture (ICT) initiative, co-authoring policy papers, training professionals, and providing legal counsel in state supreme court cases on child torture. Ms. Miller is a Certified Trauma Practitioner with advanced training in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, Body-Based Trauma Treatment, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, along with training in PCIT/CARE, Child-Centered Play Therapy, and Attachment-Based Play Therapy. Recently, she became a Registered Child Forensic Interviewer (RCFI) with NACCFI; she consults on divorce and custody cases with allegations of child sexual abuse. She has served as a psychotherapist, an attorney-GAL for maltreated children, and held executive roles in public mental health.

Ms. Miller earned her JD/MSW from the University of Cincinnati and her law degree from Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where she was a Moritz Merit Scholar and recipient of the Bergstrom Fellowship from the University of Michigan College of Law. Since 2001, Ms. Miller has focused on advocating for the protection of severely abused children.