Elder Abuse and Neglect: Causes, Diagnosis, and Intervention Strategies - Hardcover

Quinn, Mary Joy; Tomita, Susan K.

9780826151216: Elder Abuse and Neglect: Causes, Diagnosis, and Intervention Strategies

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826151213 ISBN 13: 9780826151216

Publisher: Springer Pub Co, 1997

Presentation of the authors' comprehensive model of elder abuse diagnosis and intervention. Includes information on legal interventions, courtroom testimony, and the criminal justice system. Previous edition: c1986.

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From the Back Cover:

In this second edition of their classic volume, the authors present their elder abuse diagnosis and intervention model. This comprehensive model of detection, assessment, and intervention enables the practitioner first to identify the type of elder mistreatment, including physical, sexual, psychological, and financial. It then provides systematic and realistic interventions.

This updated edition also includes information on legal interventions with suggestions on how the practitioner should act in the courtroom, give testimony, document findings, and prepare for legal involvement with the criminal justice system. Actual legal tools are included in the appendix. This is a classic resource for all health professionals who work with the elderly. "

About the Author:

Mary Joy Quinn, R.N., M.A., has been the Director of the Probate Court of San Francisco Superior Court since 1989. Prior to that, she served as a conservatorship investigator for 12 years. As director, she supervises probate court investigators and examiners and coordinates the activities of the Probate Department. Prior to joining the Probate Court, Ms. Quinn served as a public health nurse and as the director of a psychiatric day treatment center for older adults. Her education includes a B.S. in General Nursing from the University of Oregon and a M.A. in Psychology focusing on gerontology from the University of San Francisco. She has contributed to other publications focusing on elder abuse and neglect, conservatorship and guardianship, undue influence, and remedies for elder abuse and neglect with the civil and criminal courts. She is currently coordinating a state grant that focuses on access to the courts for elders, especially those who have been abused. She is a member of the California Judicial Council Probate and Mental Health Advisory Committee and a commissioner with the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. She is also a board member of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.

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