Karen Saywitz Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research / Practice in the Field of Child Maltreatment
2023
Monica Lawson, PhD
Angela Narayan, PhD
2022
Deborah Goldfarb, PhD
2021
Sue Hobbs, PhD
2020
Karen Saywitz Early Career Award: Susan Yoon, PhD
Outstanding Contributions to Research and Practice: Charissa Pizarro, PsyD
2019
Elizabeth Handley, PhD
2017
Apryl Alexander, PsyD
2016
Natacha Godbout, PhD
2015
Angelique Day, PhD
2014
Kristin Valentino, PhD
2013
Kathryn Howell, PhD
2012
Karen Appleyard Carmody, PhD, LCSW
Carmody is a licensed psychologist and clinical associate at the Center for Child and Family Health (CCFH) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Carmody received her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Minnesota. Her post-doctoral training was completed at the University of North Carolina's Center for Developmental Science. Carmody is engaged in several program evaluation and dissemination projects for evidence-based practices for children who have experienced trauma and early adversity. She is working with Mary Dozier, PhD, and a team at CCFH to develop the nation's first Learning Collaborative focused on the dissemination of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC). She serves as the evaluator for the PCIT of the Carolinas project, the nation's first Learning Collaborative for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Carmody also serves as a clinical supervisor for the Healthy Families Durham home visiting and child maltreatment prevention program and program manager for the Durham Early Head Start Home-Based Program. Carmody also has significant experience providing trauma treatment to children and families. She serves as a clinician and the former co-director of the North Carolina Child Response Initiative, a police-mental health partnership designed to provide crisis intervention and support to children and families who have witnessed domestic and community violence. Carmody's research focuses on the correlates and consequences of attachment and parenting, developmental processes underlying resilience following early adversity, and empirically-based interventions relating to trauma and attachment. Her research is grounded in a developmental psychopathology perspective and in her clinical interests in the outcomes of early adversity, with the goal of advancing interventions with high-risk children.
2011
Staci Perlman, PhD
Perlman is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at Kutztown University. She obtained her doctoral degree in Social Welfare from the School of Soial Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also received her MSW. Her practice and research interests are focused on promoting the well-being of vulnerable young children. She has worked as a preschool teacher and as a direct practitioner providing support to children identified with significant behavioral problems and their families. Perlman's research has focused on using partnership-based research to facilitate collaboration across systems serving vulnerable young children and their families. Her prior research involved using an integrated administrative data system to examine the prevalence, timing, and influence of early experiences of child maltreatment and homelessness on early educational well-being. Her current research is focused on examining the timing trajectories of first experiences of homelessness, child maltreatment, and foster care relative to one another; and making meaningful distinctions between substantiated and unsubstantiated allegations of child maltreatment. She is serving as an external evaluator of several. Currently, she is also the co-chair of the Task Force on Child Maltreatment and Homelessness.
2010
Margaret Stevenson, PhD
Stevenson is an assistant professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Evansville. Previously she was the recipient of the Section's Dissertation Award and then won the First Place Dissertation Award from Div. 41 (American Psychology-Law Society). Stevenson was recently published in the prestigious Psychology, Public Policy and Law. Stevenson has already made 27 conference presentations, and has published four published chapters (comprehensive reviews that are drawing attention in the field), an encyclopedia article, one law review article, and five peer-reviewed journal articles. Both of the psychologists who nominated her endorsed Stevenson as one of the most outstanding young psychologists to enter the child maltreatment field that they have known.
2005
Kimberly Mitchell, PhD
Mitchell is a research assistant professor of psychology and the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center
2004
Michael de Arellano, Medical University of South Carolina
2003
Elissa J. Brown, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the New York University Child Study Center
2002
Kristin Kenefick of the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
Mid-Career Award for Outstanding Work in Child Maltreatment
2023
Cynthia Nadjowski, PhD
2022
Annika Melinder, PhD
2021
Jenelle Shanley, PhD
The Section on Child Maltreatment Dissertation Award
2023
Jorge Cuartas, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Universidad de los Andes, "Piloting a Universal Parenting Violence Prevention Program for Families with Young Children in Colombia (Apapacho)"
2022
Camie Tomlinson, MSW, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Comparing Theoretical Models of Childhood Adversity to Understand Psychological Adjustment of Child Welfare-Involved Adolescents"
2021
Karissa DiMarzio, Florida International University, “A Dimensional Approach to Understanding Emotional Neglect and its Impact on Children's Psychosocial Development: A Mixed Methods Study”
2020
Caitlyn Owens, North Carolina State University, “Promoting Positive Future Expectations in Maltreated Adolescents: A Closer Examination of the Role of Parent-youth Relationships and School Engagement”
2019
Justin Harty, University of Chicago, "Experiences of Fatherhood Among Young Black Fathers Under the Care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services"
2017
Lindsay Huffhines, University of Kansas, "Childhood Adversity and Systemic Inflammation in Youth Foster Care: The Role of Family Cohesion"
2015
Samantha Brown, University of Denver, "A Mindfulness-Based Intervention to Improve Family Functioning Among Child Welfare-Involved Families with Substance Use"
2014
Helen Milojecich, University of California, Irvine, "The Role of Maltreatment on Adolescents’ Development of Emotional Competence"
2013
Deborah Alley, University of California, Davis, "Priming a Sexual Stereotype: Influences on Adults’ Perceptions of Child Sexual Abuse Victims"
2012
Jessica Dym Bartlett, Tufts University, "Young Mothers, Infant Neglect, and Discontinuities in Intergenerational Cycles of Maltreatment"
2011
Angelique Day, Western Michigan University, "An Examination of Post-Secondary Educational Access, Retention, and Success of Foster Care Youth"
2010
Julie Laura Cohen, University of Arizona, "Enhancing Retention of Foster Parents: The Role of Motivational Interviewing"
2008
Tisha Wiley, University of Illinois at Chicago, "The Effects of Child Maltreatment and Environmental Stability on Children’s Trajectories of Aggressive Behavior"
2006
Stephanie Block, University of California, Davis, "Developmental and Individual Differences in DRM Memory”
2004
Shadi Houshyar, Yale University, "Resilience in Maltreated Children"
2003
David Zielinski, Cornell University,"Child Maltreatment and Adult Socioeconomic Outcomes: The Meditational Role of Psychopathology"
2002
Amanda Schweder, Yale University, "Behavior Problems in Maltreated Children Removed from their Homes: Risk and Protective Factors"
2001
Nicole E. Marcus, University of Miami