Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide and Color Atlas (2 Volume Set) - Hardcover

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Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span A Clinical Guide and Color Atlas is an essential two volume set for anyone who may come into contact with someone who has been sexually assaulted. Professionals from the medical, legal, and law enforcement fields will find critical information on how to perform a physical examination, properly document examinations and investigations, collect forensic evidence (including DNA analysis), and address legal and prosecution issues. Individual sections are devoted to the unique problems of sexual victimization for children, adolescents and adults. Other invaluable chapters on domestic violence and acquaintance rape, male sexual assault, sexual assault in correctional settings, assault of the elderly, and victimization of people with disabilities are included.


Authored by a pediatrician, an emergency room physician, and a gynecologist, Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span A Clinical Guide offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available. Actual case histories and full-color photos are used to aid in the evaluation, care, and follow-up treatment of a sexually assaulted person of any age. Written by experts in various assault-related fields, this clinical guide addresses and discounts the myths surrounding sexual assault and presents specific findings related to behavior, affective functioning, cognitive ability, and physical conditions.



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Sexual Assault: Victimization Across the Life Span is the essential desk reference for anyone treating or investigating sexual assault. Emergency room personnel, physicians, EMTs, social service agencies, judges, and law enforcement personnel will find critical information on physical examinations, proper documentation, forensic evidence (including DNA analysis), and legal issues. The special sections devoted to the unique problems of sexual victimization of each age group are also invaluable. Edited by a pediatrician, an emergency room physician, a sexual assault nurse examiner, and a gynecologist, this hard-bound guide offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available.
The Color Atlas contains case studies from experts in the field, including photos of STDs, injuries in progressive stages of healing, and similar injuries in different age groups. Special sections include victims with disabilities, assault during incarceration, and cases involving DNA evidence collection, analysis, and prosecution.
About the Author:
Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, FAAP
Dr. Giardino is the Associate Chair for Pediatrics and the medical director for Child Abuse Services at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pa. He is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine.
Dr. Giardino earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He earned his doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where his work focused on outcomes assessment in professional education. He was named a clinical scholar at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar's Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and is a research fellow in the Division of General Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During fellowship training, he pursued specialized training in the evaluation of child abuse and neglect. In 1995, while at the Children's Seashore house, he founded the Abuse Referral Clinic for Children with Special Care Needs. This clinic provided interdisciplinary evaluations of children with disabilities who were suspected of having been abused.
Currently, Dr. Giardino serves as an attending physician on the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) team at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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  • PublisherG.W. Medical Publishing
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 1878060627
  • ISBN 13 9781878060624
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages1386

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