Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter 4E - Softcover

Angelo P. Giardino; Linda Shaw; Patricia M Speck; Eileen R. Giardino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878060538 ISBN 13: 9781878060532

Publisher: STM Learning, Inc, 2015

Synopsis

Health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, and clinical social workers, are required by law and professional codes of conduct to report suspected child abuse. These so called mandated reporters need current and practical information to recognize the signs and symptoms of child maltreatment. The fourth edition of Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter has been revised and updated to include contemporary best practices in the evaluation of child abuse and neglect. The authors and editors of this vital text represent a diverse array of professional disciplines and research interests. Together, they have assembled a multidisciplinary work concerned with a variety of topics essential to the recognition and prevention of child abuse wherever it may occur. These topics include:
- Recognizing and reporting physical abuse, sexual abuse, and child neglect
- Medical child abuse, or Munchausen s syndrome by proxy
- Risks to children in the digital age, including online predation and sexual exploitation
- Creative art therapy and its potential benefits to traumatized children
- Recognizing and reporting child abuse in the school setting
Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter is a definitive reference for frontline professionals seeking to comply with mandated reporting guidelines. In addition, this publication serves as a textbook for students studying medicine, nursing, social work, and law enforcement and who plan to work with children and families in their professional practice. Written by experts on the front lines of child protection, Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter details the most effective methods for interviews, examinations, documentation, and appropriate referrals in cases of child maltreatment.

About this title

About the Author:

Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP
Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children's Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children's Hospital's forensic pediatrics service at the Children's Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. Angelo Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Angelo Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis. He also shared responsibility for the plan's quality improvement program. Additionally, he began the Child Abuse and Neglect Team for Children with Special Health Care Needs, which was funded by a three-year grant from a local philanthropy. In 1998, he was appointed associate chair of clinical operations in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and in June of 1999 he was asked to chair the CHOP Quality Committee. These accomplishments are only a few of his career.

Linda Shaw, MSSW, MD, FAAP, CAP
Linda Shaw is a Child Abuse Pediatrician, currently in the Division of Child Protection as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, based at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center. After completing a Master s of Science of Social Work at Columbia University School of Social Work, she worked as a medical social worker at the University of Maryland Hospital, in Baltimore. She subsequently attended medical school at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, and completed a pediatric residency at the University of Washington in the Seattle Children's Medical Center.

Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APRN, FNP-BC, DF-IAFN, FAAFS, FAAN

Patricia Speck is an internationally recognized family nurse practitioner who specializes in public health and forensic nursing. She graduated from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Nursing and later completed her doctoral dissertation on sexual assault program evaluation. As a board certified family nurse practitioner, Patricia s clinical practice focuses on the health aftermath of violence and her research centers on forensic nursing practice topics. She is a consultant, author, and lecturer on forensic nursing and has earned more than 20 local, national, and international awards and professional honors for her work. Patricia chairs the American Public Health Association s Family Violence Forum and is a former president of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

Eileen R. Giardino, PhD, RN, CRNP
Eileen Giardino is a nurse practitioner and an associate professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is the track director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program, teaches both graduate and undergraduate students at the university, and works as a nurse practitioner in Student Health. She has published in the area of child and adult sexual abuse and currently lectures on the evaluation of intimate partner violence and suspected child abuse to nursing and nurse practitioner students. Eileen Giardino received her BSN and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, her MSN at Widener University, and Nurse Practitioner Certification in Adult and Family at La Salle University in Philadelphia, where she also received SANE training.

Review:

An accurate response to child abuse starts with an adequate recognition of signals. Knowledge is a crucial link. Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter gives a complete overview of the different appearances of child abuse based upon a comprehensive description of several topics, including etiology, epidemiology, differential diagnosis, interventions and prevention strategies. At the same time this textbook shows us the dilemmas and thresholds caregivers encounter in the evaluation of these complex cases. Therefore, this book is an excellent resource for the mandated reporter responsible for making critical judgments. It s a hands-on support in deciding whether or not to report in order to decrease ongoing and escalating episodes of abuse as well as false accusations. --
Kaat M.K. Peerenboom, MD
Consultant in Forensic Pediatrics
Antwerp, Belgium

Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter is a must have item for the library or bookshelf of every mandated reporter. With the consequences of failure to report suspected child abuse highlighted by the media, we are all much more aware that failure to act is, in itself, a rising concern among professionals and the public. This book, with chapters covering all aspects of abuse and neglect, will guide mandated reporters through the identification, reporting, and investigative phases of the protective service process. This added information will reduce the anxiety felt by many professionals when the time comes to make the call to report suspected abuse or neglect and serve to support them as they work with investigative and social service staff to ensure that children are protected from harm. I applaud the authors for their thoroughness and their ability to address the complexities involved in reporting abuse and neglect. --
Anne Shenberger, MSS, LSW
Executive Director
CASA Youth Advocates
Media, Pennsylvania

This book offers common ground information to all individuals that associate with children and may one day find themselves in the position of suspecting abuse. Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter, Fourth Edition, begins with chapters that address the different recognized types of child maltreatment including physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect and abandonment. Issues specific to medical child abuse and the especially vulnerable population of children with special healthcare needs are addressed in other chapters. A particularly important chapter on the juncture of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment is given much needed attention. Another chapter discusses the use of current popular cultural media and the associated risks to children. Law enforcement, social service, and legal and advocacy responses are addressed in individual chapters as well. The effects of child maltreatment on the lives of these children will illustrate the importance of the final chapter which concentrates on prevention efforts. The chapters together should give the reader good insight into the recognition and reporting of child maltreatment. --
Kathy Bell, MS, RN
Forensic Nursing Administrator
Tulsa Police Department
Tulsa, Oklahoma

About this edition

• Publisher: STM Learning, Inc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1878060538
• ISBN 13: 9781878060532
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 402