Child Maltreatment: A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse

Angelo P. Giardino

ISBN 10: 1878060562 / ISBN 13: 9781878060563

Published by STM Learning, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Child Maltreatment: A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse
• Publisher: STM Learning
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878060562
• ISBN 13: 9781878060563
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Child Maltreatment: A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse provides essential information on child abuse, neglect, investigative practices, and maltreatment prevention. This reference illustrates normal and abusive findings associated with both common and unusual forms of child maltreatment, helping a variety of professionals to accurately identify signs of maltreatment.

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.