APA-ABA National Conference

A continuing education conference co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association and the American Bar Association.

May 1-3, 2014 ● Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.

APA and ABA are joining together to co-sponsor this continuing education national conference, addressing the broad range of issues related to the exposure of children, youth and families to violence in and around the home, community and society.

The conference will:

• Present nearly 40 plenary and invited sessions addressing prevention and intervention. View the program for details and also read the session descriptions (PDF, 127KB) for more information.
• Focus on violence across individual, family, community and social contexts.
• Have broad appeal to psychologists, attorneys, judges, legal scholars, behavioral and social science scholars, social workers, and other professionals in legal, mental health, social service and education fields. 
• Offer continuing education credits to both psychologists and attorneys (CE and CLE).
• Close with a networking session, to give participants an opportunity to exchange information and views about critical issues and promote strategies for addressing violence.

Keynotes

The conference welcomes two renowned experts on issues associated with violence as keynote speakers.

Robert L. Listenbee Jr., JD, administrator of the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Listenbee joins the conference to build on recent national efforts to address the effects of violence on children, youth and families, including the U.S. Attorney General's Defending Childhood initiative, the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention and the Community Based Violence Prevention program. 

Listenbee is a highly respected public defender and juvenile justice system reformer. As a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice, he advised the president and Congress on policy matters. He served as co-chair of the National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence, and was instrumental in developing recommendations for a national response to address children’s exposure to violence.

Robert D. Macy, PhD, founder and president of the International Trauma Center, Boston
Macy practices as clinical psychologist, traumatologist and neuroscience researcher with 30 years practice in psychological trauma interventions and disaster medicine, and building trauma informed care assessment and intervention service delivery systems in the United States and overseas.

Macy is also a founding member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, working as primary content provider for the development of Psychological First Aid and skills for psychological recovery. He co-chairs NCTSN’s Terrorism-Disaster Network Committee leading numerous response and behavioral health recovery teams during national and international disasters.

Plenary Panel on Gun Violence

Kicking off the conference on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at 8:30 a.m., will be a special plenary panel: "Gun Violence Prevention: A Need for Community, Public Health and Legal Collaboration."

The panel will feature psychologists that contributed to APA's recent report on gun violence prediction, prevention and policy as well as attorneys from ABA's Standing Committee on Gun Violence. Together, they will review research-based conclusions about gun violence and discuss policies to reduce and prevent incidences of violence nationwide.