Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span - A Color Atlas - Hardcover

Angelo P. Giardino; Barbara Girardin; Diana K. Faugno; Mary J. Spencer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1878060619 ISBN 13: 9781878060617

Publisher: STM Learning, Inc., 2003

Synopsis

Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Color Atlas supports accurate identification of assaultive and nonassaultive injuries in patients in every age group. Featuring more than 1700 full-color photographs and case studies, this atlas provides a comprehensive visual guide to physical examinations and findings in cases of suspected sexual assault. It is an essential reference for medical practitioners, law enforcement professionals, and any other members of the multidisciplinary team charged with the identification of sexual victimization.

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. Dr. Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Dr. 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, Dr. Giardino 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 philanthropist. 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.

Diana K. Faugno, MSN, RN, CPN, SANE-A, SANE-P, DF-IAFN, FAAFS
Diana Faugno earned her nursing degree at the University of North Dakota in 1973. She currently serves on the board of directors for End Violence Against Women International, the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), and the California American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. Diana dem-onstrates her passion for and commitment to helping patients through her work as a sexual assault nurse examiner at the the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. She also is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Science and a distinguished fellow of IAFN. In addition, Diana co-authors books, writes numerous journal and magazine articles, and trains teams across the country on various topics related to sexual assault.

Mary J. Spencer, MD
Mary Spencer is medical director of the Child Abuse Program and the Sexual Abuse Response Team at Palomar-Pomerado Health in North San Diego County. She received her BA from the University of Colorado and MD from the University of California-Los Angeles. After medical school, Dr. Spencer completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at UCLA and worked as an assistant professor at the school until 1982. Currently, she is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California-San Diego and has a private practice in pediatric and infectious disease medicine in Escondido.

Barbara Girardin, RN, MSN, PhD, CCRN

Barbara Girardin earned her PhD in nursing from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Currently employed as a forensic nurse, trainer, and grant writer by the Healing Hearts Rape Crisis Center in Tamuning, Guam, she has 31 years of clinical practice experience in the acute and critical care of adolescents and adults, with eight years of clinical practice in forensic nursing, conducting acute sexual assault exams, developing policies and standards of practice, and receiving funding for federal grants. Dr. Girardin served as a consultant for the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), Guam and at Naval Hospital, Guam, where she teaches the sexual assault advocate program at the Family Service Center. She authors a newsletter column titled "Research Briefs in Forensic Nursing" for the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She has also conducted community education programs for more than 500 middle and high school students, parents, and military commands on the topic of sexual assault.

Review:

From the Journal of the American Medical Association:
The editors of volume two, A Color Atlas, have backgrounds in pediatrics and forensic health care. The atlas has more than 1600 color photographic images. The chapters in the atlas are arranged by developmental stages: infancy, childhood, preadolescence, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and elderly. The goal is to help "provide better care to victims of sexual violence and to hold offenders accountable to society for their crimes." --Sandra R. Scott, MD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of Newark
Newark, NJ

This book is the first to bring together the best information available concerning sexual victimization across the entire lifespan. --Robert M. Reece, MD
Director, MSPCC Institute for Professional Education
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Tufts University School of Medicine

The book is great. I have used it in training for new nurses, as a reference in court, and to just reaffirm myself on findings. It was a great purchase. --Joy Thomas, RN, SANE-A

About this edition

• Publisher: STM Learning, Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1878060619
• ISBN 13: 9781878060617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 775