Implementation of SEEK in a Children's Advocacy Center: A Process Improvement Initiative.

Unlabelled: Risk factors for child maltreatment are well-described, but clinicians may overlook these risk factors. The Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model is an evidence-based approach to identifying psychosocial risk factors for child maltreatment. This article describes a quality improvement initiative to implement the SEEK model in a unique pediatric setting, a Children's Advocacy Center.

Identifying compassion satisfaction, burnout, & traumatic stress in Children's Advocacy Centers.

Background: Little research exists examining burnout related to the multidisciplinary team (MDT) working in a Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) setting.

Objectives: To measure compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress (STS) among CAC MDT professionals; identify work and worker characteristics that may impact compassion satisfaction, burnout, and STS; understand professional and personal impacts of occupational stress; and explore coping responses.

Participants And Setting: A cross sectional survey was sent electronically to child abuse professionals working in CAC settings across the United States.

Abuse disclosures of youth with problem sexualized behaviors and trauma symptomology.

Background: The majority of youth with problem sexualized behaviors (PSB) have substantiated experiences of abuse or exposures to violence (Silovsky & Niec, 2002). Little is known about specific abuse experiences that may differentiate youth with PSB from those without. Few studies have examined the types of abuse associated with post-traumatic stress symptomology.