Child Maltreatment: A Clinical Guide and Reference 3E - Hardcover

Angelo P. Giardino

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1878060554 ISBN 13: 9781878060556

Publisher: STM Learning, 2005

Synopsis

The expanded third edition of Child Maltreatment: A Clinical Guide and Reference features updated guidelines for the investigation, diagnosis, and prosecution of child abuse. A team of expert practitioners and researchers designed this exhaustive reference for their colleagues in pediatric medicine, law, law enforcement, social work, and in every branch of the multidisciplinary team to better prepare them for an effective response to child maltreatment in all its forms.

About this title

About the Author:

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. Angelo Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Angelo 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, he 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 philanthropy. 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.

Review:

Angelo Giardino, Randy Alexander, and their interdisciplinary team of colleagues have continued to improve on an already exceptional collection of essays focused on the nature, extent and seriousness of child maltreatment in the United States and other economically advanced countries. In addition to providing the reader with a deep understanding of the complex forces that contribute to child maltreatment, the two-volume set offers clinicians and policy makers state-of-the-art guidance in preventing and caring for children who become victims of abuse and neglect. Giardino, Alexander, and their colleagues are to be congratulated for their pioneering contributions in helping to halt the current epidemic of child maltreatment cases. --Richard J. Estes, DSW
Professor and Principal Investigator
The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in North America
University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Work
Philadelphia, PA

This publication presents a comprehensive look at the issues involved in cases of child maltreatment, emphasizing the contemporary importance of this subject and reviewing the multidisciplinary techniques for forensically detecting and addressing the needs of victims of such maltreatment. The text provides professionals in the fields of law, social science, and the healthcare industry with invaluable source materials when confronted with suspected child maltreatment. --Faye Battiste-Otto, RN, SANE
President, American Forensic Nurses

As a coroner and a manager of the child death review teams in our area, I've found the Child Maltreatment 2-volume set very helpful in examining and identifying cases of child abuse and neglect. The material presented will also prove useful in training other coroners to handle similar cases. --Colin Harris, BSc.(Crim), DTCM, F-ABMDI
Coroner
Manager, Child Death Review
Office of the Chief Coroner
Burnaby, British Columbia

About this edition

• Publisher: STM Learning
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1878060554
• ISBN 13: 9781878060556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1172