Eileen Anderson, EdD, the Anne Templeton Zimmerman MD Professor in Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently gave a plenary address to the National Supervised Visitation Network, the national organization of professionals who oversee supervised visitation for children.
Her talk, titled “Interviewing and ‘Vibing’ with Adolescents: Tools from Psychology, Anthropology & Neuroscience,” was given in New Orleans during the organization’s annual conference.
Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children each year experience supervised contact with a parent through family court, child welfare, and domestic violence systems. Such experiences are notably challenging for adolescents. Drawing on her decades-long experience of working with traumatized adolescents and the systems that serve them, Anderson provided tools and frameworks based in psychology, anthropology, neuroscience and ethics.
