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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
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Child Abuse as a Health Problem
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Front Matter
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About this book
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect
Editors: Angelo P. Giardino, Michelle A. Lyn, Eileen R. Giardino
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0702-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8294-0Published: 29 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0702-8Published: 09 June 2010
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXII, 513
Additional Information: Originally published by SAGE, 1997
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Pediatrics, Social Work, Child and School Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general