child abuse

Episode 40: Kathleen Kendall-Tackett on domestic violence, trauma, breastfeeding, mothering and their intersection

March 14, 2019 Children, Divorce and Custody, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Podcasts, Trauma and Abuse

Our guest today is Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner & Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women’s health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed journals: Clinical Lactation and Psychological Trauma. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma…

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Episode 38: Dr. Tanja Jovanovic on how witnessing abuse is just as bad for children as being abused

February 28, 2019 Children, Divorce and Custody, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Podcasts, Prevention, Trauma and Abuse

On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Dr. Tanja Jovanovic, Director of the Grady Trauma Project and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University.   Dr. Jovanovic’s current research program focuses on the Interaction of traumatic experiences, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and genetic risk factors in mentor disorders in adults…

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Episode 35: #SurvivorStories Series with Maria Santiago on the impact of childhood domestic violence

February 6, 2019 Children, Domestic Violence, Healing, Podcasts, Rape and Sexual Assault, Survivor Stories

On today’s show, our guest is Maria Santiago, a survivor of childhood domestic violence or family violence, a protective parent, and a decades long advocate for survivors of intimate partner violence.  Maria is employed as a violence prevention educator in a NYC non-profit organization and works on elder justice reform in the Latino community as…

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Episode 28: Paul Griffin, Legal Director of Child Justice Inc. on “It’s Worse to Accuse than to Abuse”

November 1, 2018 Children, Divorce and Custody, Domestic Violence, Image, Podcasts, Policy

On this episode, our guest is Paul Griffin, Legal Director at Child Justice, Inc., one of the few organizations in the country dedicated to ensuring a child’s right to be legally protected from an abusive parent.  As Legal Director, Paul – along with his colleague, Alexandra Sandacz — represents non-abusive, protective parents in child-custody cases…

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Episode 21: #SurvivorStories Series with Jordan on leaving his fundamentalist Christian home

September 13, 2018 Children, Domestic Violence, Feminism, Men and Masculinity, Podcasts, Survivor Stories

On this episode, we speak with Jordan, a cis-gendered bisexual man who identifies as an intersectional feminist, anti-racist and pro-LGBTQAI.  He grew up in Dallas, Texas as the second child out of 8 in a conservative Christian home who followed the teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, established by Bill Gothard (a ministry that…

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