Fran S. Waters, DCSW, is the recipient of the 2019 William Friedrich Memorial Award on Child Sexual Abuse Research, Assessment and/or Treatment given at the annual conference of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma in San Diego. She is an international trainer and consultant in the area of trauma, abuse and dissociation, and the author of Healing the fractured child: Diagnosing & treating youth with dissociation. She maintains a private practice in Marquette.