The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Family Sexual Abuse Treatment Center are proud to announce the 24th Annual Midwest Conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Incest:
October 20-23, 2008
This national conference offers treatment and assessment workshops to professionals working in the sensitive field of child sexual abuse treatment.
2008 brochure:
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About The Midwest Conference on Child Sexual Abuse, 2008
The University of Wisconsin–Madison and Family Sexual Abuse Treatment, Inc., are proud to bring you the 24th Annual Midwest Conference on Child Sexual Abuse.
Among the 66 institutes and workshops on prevention, investigation, and treatment issues for victims and offenders, we are featuring more than 20 new speakers and over 40 new topics. We have also brought back a number of the most popular speakers and topics from previous years. Whether you are an experienced professional or are new to the field, if you work as a therapist, child protection worker, attorney, law enforcement officer, medical professional or in any position with a need to know about child sexual abuse treatment, this highly regarded conference offers you the very latest information. We hope you enjoy your conference experience.
The goal of the conference is to provide a wide range of information on the latest developments and treatment methods as well as to suggest improved ways of dealing with the day-to-day challenges that occur in work with child sexual abuse and incest. The program benefits therapists, child protection workers, attorneys, law enforcement officers, medical professionals, and anyone with a need to know more about child sexual abuse and incest.
Our program will again take place at the beautiful Marriott–Madison West Hotel and Convention Center. This spacious facility is three miles west of Madison on Hwy. 12 Beltline, in Middleton, Wisconsin.
Plenary Speaker
Martin Teicher,
MD, PhD
Childhood Abuse,
Brain Development,
and Impulsivity
Martin H. Teicher,
MD, PhD, has been
director of the
Developmental
Biopsychiatry Research Program at
McLean Hospital since 1988. Dr. Teicher
has served as associate professor of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
and chief of the Developmental
Psychopharmacology Laboratory
at the Mailman Research Center
since 1990.
He is a member of the editorial boards
of the Journal of Child and Adolescent
Psychopharmacology, Current Pediatric
Reviews, and Current Psychosomatic
Medicine. He is a member of the Scientific
Advisory Council of the Juvenile Bipolar
Research Foundation, and has been
part of Harvard University’s Brain
Development Working Group. He has
served on or chaired numerous review
committees for the National Institute
of Health, published more than
150 articles, and received numerous
honors.
After attending this conference, participants will be able to:
- Apply state-of-the-art assessment methods when working with sexually abused children, adults who were abused as children, and offenders
- Apply state-of-the-art treatment methods when working with sexually abused children, adults who were abused as children, and offenders
- Identify the most current information concerning working with sexually abused children, adults who were abused as children, and offenders
For more information:
Call: 800-442-7107 or 608-263-5130
To register call: 800-725-9692
Write:
Professional Development and Applied Studies
Midwest Conference
313 Lowell Center
610 Langdon St.
Madison, WI 53703
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