Carla van Dam, Ph.D.

In this interview, van Dam discusses, in depth, how we can identify perpetrators, listen to our gut when a adult-child situation feels uncomfortable, and set up boundaries to protect our children. The interview aired on Icelandic television, and is titled “Antidote open communication”.

Following the Sandusky scandal, Carla van Dam’s book The Socially Skilled Child Molester was covered in a New Yorker article by Malcom Gladwell. In it, he describes van Dam’s books and her methods for identifying particularly socially skilled predators like Sandusky. You can read the full article by clicking on the excerpt below.