During a pandemic, particularly a pandemic resulting in a quarantine, child abuse is likely to increase because of added stressors to a family, the isolation of children with their offenders, reduced interaction with mandated reporters, and the elimination or reduction of critical services. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an illustration, the authors propose numerous recommendations to assist multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) responding to child abuse during a pandemic.

Child abuse is both a sin and a crime. In this article, we present a call to the global Christian church to prevent and treat child abuse, and to train professionals across disciplines to do so. Vieth discusses e ective child protection policies in churches. Among other recommendations, he encourages consultation with child protection experts, thorough screening of child workers, and accountable supervision of children in church. Tchvidjian examines cultural aspects of missions organizations that contribute to the abuse of children in the mission eld. He suggests that missions organizations who have failed to protect abused children in the past placed their reputation above child protection, failed to treasure children, and believed in God-sanctioned power and control of missions workers. Knodel reviews the e orts of Christian organizations to prevent the tra cking of children worldwide. She nds effective advocacy occurring across the globe but among Christian organizations that are rarely tied to any speci c denominational support. Next, Walker reviews evidencebased treatment recommendations for children and adolescents. Trauma-focused CBT is a leading empirically supported treatment for child abuse. Recently, e orts have been made to sensitively integrate faith into TF-CBT. Vieth then discusses e ective church responses to allegations of abuse. He suggests suspending the activities of a church worker when allegations are made against him or her in addition to informing the police. Tchivdjian con

The Child Advocacy Studies Training (CAST) program was developed by the National Child Protection Training Center to educate future professionals to more effectively prevent, identify, and respond to child maltreatment. The program has been implemented nationally in over 20 colleges and universities. This pilot study examines the effectiveness of the first implementation of CAST in a medical school. Results indicate that medical students' self-reported preparedness to identify signs of child maltreatment, to report a case of suspected child maltreatment, to recommend or secure needed services for a maltreated child, and likelihood to report suspected child maltreatment if they suspected but were not sure about it were significantly improved after completing CAST. The implications of this study may have a profound impact on identifying and potentially decreasing child maltreatment.

The purpose of the current study was to examine the effects of training first year medical students using a Child Advocacy Studies Training (CAST) elective course. The 9-month course was taught by a multidisciplinary group of professionals and addressed prevention, identification, reporting, and responding to all forms of child and adolescent maltreatment. It was hypothesized that, relative to students in a comparison group, students who completed the elective course would report being significantly more prepared to identify signs of maltreatment, to report a case of suspected maltreatment, and to recommend or secure needed services for a maltreated child or adolescent, more likely to report suspected maltreatment, even if they did not know for sure it happened, and demonstrate improved knowledge in the areas of maltreatment identification and reporting. Results supported all five of the study's hypotheses and indicate that the CAST program may be an effective method of better preparing future physicians to address child and adolescent maltreatment.

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The article provides a history of efforts to develop a credentialing or certification process for forensic interviewers and reviews the multitiered credentialing process offered by the National Association of Certified Child Forensic Interviewers. The authors argue the benefits of a credentialing process for forensic interviewers and respond to the arguments commonly made against the credentialing of forensic interviewers.

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Copyright 2012 by Ros eme ad School of P sy chology B iola Uni ver sit y, 00 91-647 1/410-730 257 1 e law is "God's will, which shows people how they should live in order to please God (e.g. the Ten Commandments), condemns their failure to ful ll His will (sin), and threatens God's wrath because of sin. e preaching of the Law is the cause of contrition. Although the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament have been abolished (Colossians 2:16-17), the moral law (the Ten Commandments) is in force until the end of time (Mathew 5:18)." (Walther 2010, p. 481). 2 e Gospel "in its proper and narrow sense, is the glad tidings of forgiveness, peace, life, and joy; the eternal divine counsel of redemption, of which Christ Himself ever was, is, and will be the living center, the very heart and soul. e Gospel (a) imparts the forgiveness of sin; (b) produces true joy and the zeal to do good works; and (c) destroys sin both outwardly and inwardly." (Walther 2010, p. 480).