Abuse

Download Child Abuse and Neglect: A Diagnostic Guide for Physicians, by Vincent J. Palusci, Howard Fischer PDF

By Vincent J. Palusci, Howard Fischer

Bruises -- Abusive burns -- Cutaneous stipulations mimicking baby abuse -- Imaging baby abuse -- Ocular trauma -- Otolaryngologic manifestations of abuse and overlook -- reputation of kid abuse by means of dentists, health and wellbeing care execs, and legislation enforcement -- Abusive stomach trauma -- Anogenital findings and baby sexual abuse -- baby maltreatment fatalities -- Failure to thrive -- Munchausen syndrome through proxy

Show description

Read Online or Download Child Abuse and Neglect: A Diagnostic Guide for Physicians, Surgeons, Pathologists, Dentists, Nurses and Social Workers PDF

Similar abuse books

Breaking the Silence

From the Sunday occasions bestselling writer comes a real tale of 2 deeply bothered boys either short of a loving home.

This is the 6th identify within the series.

The Watsons are astonished after they resolution their entrance door to discover their case employee with a small boy at the doorstep. Jenson is simply 9 years outdated. He was once faraway from his domestic thirty mins prior whilst it used to be came across his mom had left him at domestic whereas she went on vacation along with her boyfriend.

A couple of weeks later Casey is in for a moment surprise whilst she is requested to take a moment nine-year-old boy, Georgie. Georgie is autistic and has been in a children’s domestic seeing that he was once a child. the house is last and social prone desire someplace transitority for him to stick. along with her personal grown up son, Kieron, having Asperger’s (a gentle kind of autism), Casey is aware this can be one baby she can't say no to.

The courting among Jenson and Georgie is hard from the outset. Jenson is rebellious and whole of perspective and he kicks off at whatever, continuously winding Georgie up. Georgie doesn’t cope good with swap and is quickly in an everlasting country of rigidity. regardless of Casey’s most sensible efforts, her innate love for the youngsters is being proven and he or she starts to query if she will be able to deal with Jenson’s cruelty.

But time beyond regulation it turns into transparent that the lads have shaped an not likely bond. may perhaps this be the answer to all in their troubles?

Childhood Victimization: Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People (Interpersonal Violence)

Kids are the main criminally victimized phase of the inhabitants, and a considerable quantity face a number of, severe "poly-victimizations" in the course of a unmarried 12 months. And although the concern emphasis in educational learn and executive coverage has ordinarily long past to learning juvenile delinquents, childrens really seem sooner than professionals extra usually as sufferers than as offenders.

Domestic Violence and Health: The Response of the Medical Profession

An exploration of the difficulty of family violence and health and wellbeing and an exploration of ways girls suppose approximately their encounters with healthcare execs. It increases a couple of matters for execs enthusiastic about either coverage implementation and perform. those concerns contain: the differentiation among actual and non-physical accidents; motives of the motives of household violence proffered by way of either player teams; an exam of the perceptions held by means of overall healthiness care execs on the subject of girls who current with family violence-related accidents; the makes use of and abuses of the clinical checklist in the wider context of documentation and confidentiality; and the impression of wider help-seeking and multi-agency collaborations.

The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness: Effective Interventions for Mental Health Professionals

This informative e-book supplies psychological health and wellbeing execs who're no longer baby abuse experts wisdom and abilities which are specifically proper to their direct provider position and perform context. It introduces to those practitioners a conceptual bridge among biomedical and psychosocial understandings of psychological sickness, delivering a multidimensional procedure that permits pros to imagine holistically and fasten consumers' abusive pasts with their present-day signs and behaviors.

Additional info for Child Abuse and Neglect: A Diagnostic Guide for Physicians, Surgeons, Pathologists, Dentists, Nurses and Social Workers

Sample text

Children who climb or fall into a tub of hot water might present with immersion injuries to their hands and feet, but they would also have irregular burn patterns and splash marks. In all burn cases, it is important to assess the child’s developmental abilities when trying to determine the mechanism of injury. Scald injuries not only occur in the bathroom, but also are seen when children pull hot liquids onto themselves or when scalding liquid is poured or thrown at them. Water follows the pull of gravity and it cools as it flows downward.

Bruising to the thorax may be associated with rib fractures, pulmonary contusions, or hemothorax and those over the abdomen may lead to finding life-threatening underlying injuries to the liver, spleen, or viscera (3, 6, 10, 11, 80, 81, 86, 87). Subtle swelling and bruising over the head, trunk, or extremities may be a clue to an underlying bony injury. A well-lit room is essential for finding subtle bruises, particularly in dark-skinned children. Palpation of the scalp and parting of hair will help in finding bruises underlying hair.

The child was removed from the water as soon as the caregiver realized how hot the running water was. The child was brought to the hospital immediately by the parents and the babysitter. Notice skin sparing of the abdomen where the leg was drawn up. The pattern of the burn on the leg is irregular. 125–127 A 10-month-old was being given a bath by an aunt with the water running. The baby turned off the cold water with his foot and was burned. The patient was brought in 3 days later with seconddegree burns.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.43 of 5 – based on 19 votes