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Physical Abuse and Neglect A Training Curriculum 
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This training material is also available as an online learning resource. The ultimate text on child maltreatment is now available for continuing education credit. Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Training Curriculum, the first in a series of training modules based on the highly respected science of intervention library of forensic titles from G.W. Medical Publishing, condenses the content of Child Maltreatment: A Clinical Guide and Reference to eight topical chapters meant to familiarize learners with the common forms of abuse and neglect. The training curriculum contains activities, test questions, photographic references, and a PowerPoint teaching presentation and is accredited through Saint Louis University's School of Medicine and School of Nursing to provide CME/CNE credit(s). Child abuse crosses all social, ethnic, religious, cultural, and professional lines. The increase in public awareness of this problem has led to an increase in the investigation and diagnosis of potential abuse cases. Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Training Curriculum answers a pressing need for educational resources devoted to enabling those who work with children to understand and recognize potential cases of neglect or abuse and to training them in appropriate courses of action in what are often highly sensitive circumstances. The program is aimed not only at forensic diagnosis, but is also meant to remove the uncertainty often felt when facing a situation in which a child may be at risk. This educational curriculum, devoted to training physicians, nurses, and other professionals who work with children in the evaluation and interpretation of potential child maltreatment cases, is ideal for those who wish to understand the typical symptoms and presentation of abuse cases. Moreover, Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Training Curriculum should be required reading for new pediatricians, pediatric nurses, law enforcement personnel, social workers, and any other professionals who interact with children in medical or investigative settings. The eight chapters of Physical Abuse and Neglect cover the common signifiers of abuse and the information necessary to differentiate between accidental injuries and illnesses and cases of abuse or neglect. Ideal for child maltreatment education and child neglect training, the information in Physical Abuse and Neglect is designed to be studied either as a whole or broken down on a chapter-by-chapter basis. The package price includes an initial certification through Saint Louis University; additional certificates are available for a reasonable fee of $30.00 for nurses and $45.00 for physicians. |
| Product Details: | 9" x 11" spiral bound curriculum |
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| 259 pages with 33 contributors | |
| Interactive CD-ROM including 208 images, digital course handouts and forms, and other resources | |
| 8 lessons accredited for 22 hours of AMA PRA Category I™ or Continuing Nursing Education credits | |
| Audience: | Physicians, ER Personnel, Pediatricians, EMTs, Nurses, Medical Examiners, Clinical Researchers |
| Publication date: | 2008 |
| ISBN-13 (accredited): | 978-1-878060-79-2 |
| ISBN-13(unaccredited): | 978-1-878060-09-9 |
| 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. |
| Randell Alexander, MD, PhD, FAAP |
Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. Dr. Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, as well as on two regional child death review committees. He is an active researcher who lectures widely and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country. |
| Mark Hudson, MD, FAAP |
Dr. Mark Hudson is a physician at the Midwest Children's Resource Center, a medical based children's advocacy center at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. He specializes in pediatrics and has fellowship training in the medical evaluation of Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Hudson is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he graduated and completed his pediatrics residency. |
1. Overview: Categories of Maltreatment, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, Impact of Physical Abuse and Neglect
2. Radiology of Child Maltreatment: Diagnostic Radiographs, Usage Guidelines, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
3. Fractures: Types, Specific Injuries, Skeletal Injuries, Spine Injuries, Skull Fractures
4. Head Injury: Common Mechanisms, Biomechanical, Intracranial, Associated, Differentiate Abuse from Non-abuse, Clinical Examination, Differential Diagnosis
5. Bruises, Burns, and Thoracoabdominal Injury: Visible Skin Injuries, Differential Diagnosis, Medical Evaluation, Thoracoabdominal Injuries
6. Ophthalmic and Oral Injury: Manifestations, Oral, Oral Soft Tissues, Infants, Child Abuse, Bite Marks, Patterned Injury, Child Neglect
7. Neglect, Abandonment, and Failure to Thrive: Basic Needs and Neglect, Evaluating Neglect in Health Care, Physical Neglect/Abandonment, Medical, Educational
8. Chemical Abuse (Poisoning): Abusive Agents and Conditions, Chemical Abuse Agents and Conditions, Evaluation, Toxicology Testing
| Reviews |
When a child comes into a medical facility with suspicious injuries, the greatest fear of all medical providers is misinterpreting the cause of the injury. Is the injury truly the result of an accident, or could the injury be the result of physical abuse or neglect? Often, health care providers feel very uncomfortable making this type of determination. We are all aware of the weight a decision in either direction may have on the child and the family. Anyone who has had to make an assessment of this nature is aware of the tremendous pressure on each of us to base our assessment and conclusions on clear guidelines to ensure we make an accurate determination. We need to know with a reasonable degree of certainty that our assessment is correct. This training curriculum was developed especially to assist health care providers in making these very difficult decisions based upon sound scientific information. This curriculum is much more than an educational program. It includes a well organized, easily understood, complete training curriculum with the information and materials necessary for instructors to provide comprehensive training to identify, treat, and prevent child abuse and neglect. It includes background information, case studies, and photo documentation used to recognize and differentiate accidental injury from physical abuse. It specifically addresses head injury, fractures, burns, bruises, blunt force trauma and chemical abuse of children, as well as the basics of child neglect. While primarily directed toward health care providers, this training curriculum also provides a wealth of helpful information for law enforcement officers and social service personnel who may be involved in these difficult cases as well. Professionals who complete this curriculum will be better prepared to think through cases presented to them in their practice. They will be better prepared to make clinical assessments, diagnoses, and to provide treatment based on facts and evidence. Most importantly, they will be more comfortable and competent in making accurate decisions for the benefit of the children and families involved.
Linda E. Ledray, RN, SANE-A, PhD, FAAN |
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The teamwork approach emphasized in Child Maltreatment: A Clinical Guide and Reference guides those who serve children with an approach that is key for an optimal response to the complex problem of child maltreatment. Collaboration across disciplines cannot simply be a buzzword. And, clear communication is critical. On behalf of the editors and authors, I wish you success in your efforts to address child maltreatment. We hope we have provided a useful guide that will help improve our efforts to prevent this problem and our response to maltreated children and their families.
Howard Dubowitz, MD, MS |
