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Crime Victims Center's staff receive APSAC awards MUSC's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty and National Crime Victims Center’s (NCVC) Benjamin Saunders and Rochelle Hanson and pediatric psychiatrist Eve Spratt were honored earlier this summer at the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) 9th annual colloquium meeting, June 20-24 in Washington, D.C. Saunders received the 2000 APSAC Research Career Achievement Award for his long-term, significant and outstanding contributions to research on child maltreatment. His work with the NCVC focuses on scientific research on child sexual abuse and its traumatic effects. Saunders, who is a Ph.D., is a licensed independent social worker and is a board certified diplomate in clinical social work with the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work.  Licensed clinical psychologist Rochelle F. Hanson, Ph.D., and co-author Eve G. Spratt, M.D., were recognized as APSAC’s Outstanding Article of the Year for 2000 award. The article, titled  “Reactive Attachment Disorder: What we know about the disorder and implications for treatment,” was featured in the May 2000 issue of the organization’s professional journal, Child Maltreatment. Hanson currently serves as president and program committee co-chair of the South Carolina Chapter of APSAC, founded in 1995. Her specialties include child maltreatment and post traumatic stress disorder. Spratt, who holds dual appointments with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, is an expert in child and adolescent psychiatry, adaptation to pediatric illness, disability and trauma. “It's great to get this type of recognition from peers and national colleagues,” said Saunders, a former APSAC board member. This was his first award received from the organization. APSAC is the country’s largest, professional interdisciplinary society dedicated to the field of preventing child abuse.