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Molly R. Wolf

Professor of Social Work
PennWest University

About

DR. MOLLY WOLF is a tenured Professor in the Social Work Department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She has spent many years studying trauma and child sexual abuse as a researcher and Professor, and trauma therapist. She earned her BA from Rutgers University in 1995, her MSW in 2007, and PhD in Social Welfare at the University of Buffalo in 2014. Her groundbreaking research concerning the effects of grooming during child sexual abuse on trauma symptoms of adult survivors has made her an international expert on this matter. Dr. Wolf has published extensively in the areas of dissociative amnesia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the psychometric analysis of perpetrator grooming behaviors. Her latest research includes the development of assessment tools, including the Sex Offender Grooming Assessment (SOGA), a psychometrically validated instrument that aids forensic interviewers in evaluating grooming behaviors.

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