BIO AND SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Pamela J. Miller is a clinical social worker and an attorney. Miller has been with the APSAC Center for Child Policy (recently rebranded as the Child Maltreatment Policy Resource Center) since 2019. She is a highly trained trauma specialist and has led the Center’s multi-year Intrafamilial Child Torture (ICT) initiative since its inception. This includes authoring the Center’s policy white papers and case studies on ICT, writing and publishing articles, conducting trainings for professionals in multiple disciplines, speaking at conferences and events, preparing amicus briefs, and serving as counsel for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) in state supreme court cases involving child torture. Professionals from 83 countries have attended her trainings and downloaded her papers on ICT. Ms. Miller has also served as an expert and author on topics related to mandated reporting, child abuse law, and immigrant children and families.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Miller has published in Children and Youth Services Review, with Prof. Franne Sippel, EdD and colleagues, on their scientific experiment that measured the impact of retaliation against mandated reporters of child abuse.
Miller has published in the NASW journal Social Work, with her theoretical critique on agency in vulnerable families. Available through the National Institute of Health and Oxford University Press.
Miller has published with Prof. Frank Vandervort, JD of the University of Michigan College of Law, and Prof Katherine Piper, PhD, JD, MEd of St. John’s University College of Law, on legal practice in dependency court. See:
“The Role of the Child’s Attorney…” and “Children’s Presence in Court…”
Miller has published with Lisa A. Fontes, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, on Coercive Control in Intrafamilial Child Torture, in Psychology Today and Alliance for HOPE International.
This article received over 10k reads in the first 90 days.
Miller has published with Victor Vieth, JD, MA, of the Zero Abuse Project, on holistic care, including Spiritual Care, for child torture survivors. Paper here.
Links:
APSAC Center for Child Policy, newly rebranded as the Child Maltreatment Policy Resource Center