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LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF NEGLECT ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND MEDIATORS

 TRCNC Second Annual Meeting

October 16-17, 2008

Graduate Center, City University of New York,

New York City

 

 

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

 

    Day One:  Thursday, 16 October 2008  

 

    8:30 AM                Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

    9:00 AM                Introductions and Welcome

 

                                       Cheryl A. Boyce, NIMH

                                       Valerie Maholmes, NICHD

                                       LeShawndra Price, NIDA

                                       Cathy Spatz Widom, John Jay and the Graduate Center, CUNY (host)

 

    9:30 AM                Opening Remarks

                                        Nicholas Scoppetta, Fire Commissioner of the City of New York

                       

    9:45 AM                The Long Arm of Childhood Neglect: Effects on Cardiovascular Health in

                                  Mid-Adulthood in the 1958 British Birth Cohort

                                        Claudia Thomas, MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, University

                                        College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK
 

    10:30 AM              Coffee break

 

    10:45 AM               New Findings from a 30-Year Follow-Up of Neglected Children

                                        Cathy Spatz Widom, John Jay College, CUNY

 

    11:30 AM               The Epigenetic Effects of Maternal Care and Neglect

    Frances Champagne, Psychology, Columbia University

 

    12:15 PM               Working Lunch           

 

    1:30  PM               Intergenerational Processes in Child Neglect: Lessons from Longitudinal Sexual

                                 Abuse Research

                                        Penelope Trickett, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

 

    2:15 PM                Break

 

    3:00 PM                 Long-term System Impact for Child Neglect: Services Use Throughout Childhood  

                                        Melissa Jonson-Reid & Brett Drake, Washington University, St. Louis

 

    4:00 PM                 Public Lecture

 

                            Welcome Remarks: 

                                        Commissioner John Mattingly, Administration for Children’s Services,                                         New York City

 

    4:15 PM                  A Longitudinal Study of Physical and Emotional Neglect: Consequences and

                                    Implications for Prevention and Intervention

                                         Byron Egeland, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development, University

                                         of Minnesota 

 

    5:15  PM               Wine and cheese reception

                                         Sponsored by the Office of the Advancement of Research and the

                                         Psychology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City

                                         University of New York and the John Jay Foundation

   

    Dinner              On your own or join a group for a "Dutch Treat" dinner. Please sign up at the

                             registration table if you wish to join the group.  

                      

 

    Day Two:  Friday, 17 October 2008   

 

    8:30 AM                Continental Breakfast

 

    9:00 AM                Welcome Back

 

    9:15 AM                 Deficient Parenting and the Development of Children’s Aggression    

                                         John F. Knutson, David S. DeGarmo, John B. Reid, Gina Koeppl, & 

                                         Nizete Valles

 

    9:45 AM                School Adjustment of Children in Foster Care in the Early Elementary Grades:

                                  The Roles of Inhibitory Control and Caregiver Involvement

    Katherine C. Pears, Philip A. Fisher, Jacqueline Bruce, & Hyoun K. Kim,

    Oregon Social Learning Center

 

    10:15 AM              Shame as a Mediator of Depressive Symptoms among Neglected Children

    David Bennett, Margaret Sullivan, & Michael Lewis 

 

    10:45 AM              Coffee Break

 

    11:00 AM              Longitudinal Prediction of Behavioral Functioning and Academic Competence

                                  among Polyvictimized Neglected Children

                Jody Manley & Michael Lynch

 

    11:30 AM             Neglect and Substance Use Patterns: Untangling Types of Maltreatment With   

                                  Longitudinal Data

                                       Carolyn Smith, Laura Elwyn, Timothy Ireland, & Terence Thornberry

 

    12:00 PM               Working Lunch

                                        Update on Federal Research on Child Neglect

                                                    Cheryl A. Boyce, Ph.D., NIMH

   

                                   Discussion:  Challenges in Research on Child Neglect                                               

            -Building Research Infrastructure and Innovation

            -Health Disparities

            -Translational Science into Effective Practice and Change

 

    1:30 PM                 Formal Meeting Ends

 

    2:00 PM                 Meeting of Young Scholar Travel Awardees and Mentors-- Breakout Groups

 

    3:00 PM                 R13 Grant Co-PIs Meeting

 

 

 

 

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