Overview
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Angelo P. Giardino
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Texas Children's Health Plan, Inc., Houston, USA
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Michelle A. Lyn
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Texas Children’s Hospital, Children's Assessment Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
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Eileen R. Giardino
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School of Nursing at Houston, Department of Integrative Care, University of Texas, Houston, USA
Extensive color photos
Updated edition adds chapters on risks for children with special health care needs, the connection of child abuse to intimate partner violence, and recognizing factitious disorder by proxy
For each injury, there is discussion of epidemiology, approaches to identification, evaluation and treatment, and differential diagnosis
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxxii
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Child Abuse as a Health Problem
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- Angelo P. Giardino, Michelle A. Lyn, Eileen R. Giardino
Pages 3-30
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- Rebecca G. Girardet, Angelo P. Giardino
Pages 31-81
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Specific Injuries
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- Erin E. Endom, Angelo P. Giardino
Pages 85-140
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- Nancy S. Harper, Arne H. Graff
Pages 141-206
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- Erin E. Endom, Donna Mendez
Pages 231-259
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- Tal Ben-Galim, Penelope T. Louis, Angelo P. Giardino
Pages 261-290
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- Reena Isaac, Thomas A. Roesler
Pages 291-305
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- Vincent J. Palusci, Carl J. Schmidt, Pamela Wallace Hammel
Pages 307-332
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Related Issues
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Front Matter
Pages 333-333
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- Patricia M. Sullivan, John F. Knutson, Eleanor J. Ashford
Pages 335-351
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- Jennifer Jarjosa Tscholl, Philip V. Scribano
Pages 353-370
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Teamwork
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Front Matter
Pages 401-401
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- Maria D. McColgan, Allan DeJong
Pages 403-424
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- Kelli Connell-Carrick, Maria Scannapieco
Pages 425-443
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- Suzanna Tiapula, Angelo P. Giardino
Pages 445-475
About this book
As we near the 50th anniversary of the landmark article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues entitled “The Battered Child Syndrome”, which ushered in the modern era of professional attention by pediatricians and other child health professionals, we have reason for both celebration and concern. We can take heart that over the recent ve decades, a great deal of professional attention focused on the problem of child abuse and neglect. In every state of the country, there are mandatory repo- ing laws that require nurses, physicians, and social workers to report suspicions of maltreatment to the appropriate authorities for investigation. The act of repo- ing provides legal immunity to the reporter except when performed in bad faith. Progress in understanding the factors that place children at risk for harm from ph- ical abuse and neglect now permits prevention and intervention. The peer-reviewed literature dealing with child abuse and neglect has proliferated with high quality work being done and reported on the many dimensions related to the epidemi- ogy, mechanism, treatment, and prognosis of child maltreatment. Efforts are being directed toward developing an evidence-based approach to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. These are some of the positives. However, negatives exist and remain reasons for concern. Despite a tremendous amount of attention to the pr- lem of maltreatment, there are at least 3 million reports of suspected child abuse and neglect made annually, with nearly 1 million cases being substantiated.
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
“This second and enlarged edition discusses the important and universal problem related to the main theme. … With many illustrations. … For all pediatricians, public health workers, child health and school personnel, child psychologists and psychiatrists.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 8 (2), December, 2010)
Editors and Affiliations
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Texas Children's Health Plan, Inc., Houston, USA
Angelo P. Giardino
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Texas Children’s Hospital, Children's Assessment Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Michelle A. Lyn
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School of Nursing at Houston, Department of Integrative Care, University of Texas, Houston, USA
Eileen R. Giardino
About the editors
Angelo P. Giardino is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is also Medical Director of Texas Children's Health Plan, Inc.
