Child Fatality Review: An Interdisciplinary Guide and Photographic Reference - Hardcover
Child Fatality Review is the first and only text available that is devoted to the child fatality review (CFR) process. It is designed to serve CFR team members, potential team members, and interested nonmembers as the only text they will need on child death review. The title details common types of child fatalities for professionals to use as a reference, including sections devoted to review procedures, the roles of each team member, and full-color photographs of various causes of child death and manners of death. Case studies illustrate abusive and accidental forms of death, including neglect, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), suicide, burning, drowning, genetic diseases, natural causes, and shaken baby syndrome. This text is a vital tool for all members of a child fatality review team, and can serve as a guide for anyone trying to form a team. While this illustrated text is an ideal tool for anyone who works on or with a child fatality review team, it is also a reference asset to any medical library. In the arena of education, Child Fatality Review is a valuable teaching tool in university social-work classes or law enforcement teaching facilities. Anyone potentially involved with a child fatality review team or in identifying child maltreatment should not miss out on this one-of-a-kind resource.
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About the Author:
Randell Alexander, MD, PhD, FAAP
Dr. Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. Dr. Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, as well as on two regional child death review committees. He is an active researcher who lectures widely and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.
Mary E. Case, MD
Dr. Case is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in pathology at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center and is board certified in anatomical pathology, neuropathology, and forensic pathology. In addition to being a professor of pathology and codirector of the Division of Forensic Pathology at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, Dr. Case serves as chief medical examiner for the cities of St. Louis and St. Charles, and Jefferson and Franklin Counties. Her primary practice is forensic pathology, and her areas of special interest are children's injuries and head trauma.
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Dr. Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. Dr. Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, as well as on two regional child death review committees. He is an active researcher who lectures widely and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.
Mary E. Case, MD
Dr. Case is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in pathology at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center and is board certified in anatomical pathology, neuropathology, and forensic pathology. In addition to being a professor of pathology and codirector of the Division of Forensic Pathology at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, Dr. Case serves as chief medical examiner for the cities of St. Louis and St. Charles, and Jefferson and Franklin Counties. Her primary practice is forensic pathology, and her areas of special interest are children's injuries and head trauma.
Child Fatality Review: An Interdisciplinary Guide and Photographic Reference is a must-have for all members of child fatality review teams, legislators, government, administrators of child-focused programs, as well as child advocates. This reference manual takes a broad look at the concept of fatality review, its history, current direction, and recommendations for future direction. Most importantly, the manual outlines the need for consistency nationally and internationally in programmatic aspects of child fatality review and in prevention activities. --Eva Pattillo, Executive Director, Georgia Child Fatality Review Panel, Marietta, Georgia
To create a comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide to child death review is a testimony to the degree to which this endeavor has advanced in the 30 or so years since its inception. The guide is insightful and forward-looking and deals with the complexities of discussions surrounding cases of child death. The inclusion of specific cases makes the guide both readable and practical, and many of us who have served on fatality review boards will nod in agreement as we read cases that sound all too familiar. The guide is a valuable resource to seasoned as well as novice team members. --Carol Berkowitz, MD, FAAP, Executive Vice Chair Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, California
Cases of child fatality are tragic both for society and for the family of the child. They need to be dealt with and investigated carefully and sympathetically by professionals. Child death review teams help to set the highest standards for this. This book goes a long way toward helping to promote and improve that standard in other countries with less experience. --Inga Talvik, MD, Senior Consultant in Pediatric Neurology, Childrens Clinic of Tartu University Hospitals, Tartu, Estonia
To create a comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide to child death review is a testimony to the degree to which this endeavor has advanced in the 30 or so years since its inception. The guide is insightful and forward-looking and deals with the complexities of discussions surrounding cases of child death. The inclusion of specific cases makes the guide both readable and practical, and many of us who have served on fatality review boards will nod in agreement as we read cases that sound all too familiar. The guide is a valuable resource to seasoned as well as novice team members. --Carol Berkowitz, MD, FAAP, Executive Vice Chair Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, California
Cases of child fatality are tragic both for society and for the family of the child. They need to be dealt with and investigated carefully and sympathetically by professionals. Child death review teams help to set the highest standards for this. This book goes a long way toward helping to promote and improve that standard in other countries with less experience. --Inga Talvik, MD, Senior Consultant in Pediatric Neurology, Childrens Clinic of Tartu University Hospitals, Tartu, Estonia
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- PublisherSTM Learning, Inc.
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1878060589
- ISBN 13 9781878060587
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages832
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