Recognizing Child Abuse
Learn to recognize the patterns and tactics used to conceal abuse, including the Deny-Attack-Reverse pattern, isolation, surveillance, and financial control. This session also examines how mandatory reporting, DCFS screening, and homeschool laws interact, and where they do not, while providing a practical checklist for interviews, home visits, and case screening.
Objectives:
- Recognize the Deny-Attack-Reverse pattern offenders use with investigators, victims, and institutions.
- Spot the non-physical tactics- isolation, surveillance, financial control- that precede and mask abuse.
- Know how mandatory reporting, DCFS screening, and homeschool law interact, and where they don’t.
- Leave with a practical checklist for interviews, home visits, and case screening.