Child Physical Abuse: Current Evidence, Clinical Practice, and Policy Directions

ISBN-13: 9783319611020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 153 str.

Tanya S. Hinds; Angelo P. Giardino

Opis

This eye-opening monograph challenges professionals across disciplines to take a more thorough and focused approach to addressing child physical abuse at the practice and policy levels. Positing child physical abuse as a public health crisis (as opposed to a more vague "social" one), the authors use empirical findings and clinical insights to advocate for wide-scale reforms in screening, assessment, responses, treatment, and prevention. The book's social/ecological perspective delves into root causes of physical maltreatment, analyzes the role of family and community risk and support factors, and notes forms of discomfort keeping many professionals from meeting the issue head-on. From there, chapters describe coordinated multidisciplinary efforts for intervention and prevention with the potential to avert all forms of child abuse. Included in the coverage: - Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - The non-verbal child: obtaining a history for caregiver(s) - Clinical perspectives on multidisciplinary collaboration

• Corporal punishment and risk for child physical abuse
  
• Intimate partner violence (IPV) and risk for child physical abuse
  
• Evolution of child maltreatment prevention
  
• Complementary dynamic prevention approach
  

Child Physical Abuse sets out the scope of this ongoing crisis for a wide audience including healthcare providers, child advocates, clinical social workers, public health officials, mental health providers, legislative staff professionals, and members of the lay public, with clear guidelines for effective long-term solutions.

Recenzje

"The book is written for a medically informed community, but those working in the child welfare arena and others can read this book and comprehend its content. ... This book adds to the current resources addressing the need to appreciate that child abuse must be viewed in paradigm similar to all other medical entities ... and how important these components are to encourage the medical community's embrace of its role in diagnosis, intervention, and prevention." (Jill Glick, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2018)

Spis treści

Part 1: Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Models and Frameworks

a. Scope of the problem

i. Epidemiologic data

1. Child Maltreatment 2014

2. National Incidence Study (NIS-4) data

b. Etiology and models 

i. Ecological model

ii. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)

c. Cost of care

i. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

ii. Prevent Child Abuse America

d. Mandated reporting

e. Multidisciplinary team approach

f. Consequences

i. Widom's longitudinal data

g. Growing field of prevention: Calls for prevention

i. Victor I. Vieth

ii. Blair L. Sadler

Part 2: Health Care

Chapter 2: Clinical Practice

a. History/Interview

b. Physical examination

c. Lab/Imaging evaluation

d. Differential diagnosis and "mimics"

e. Multidisciplinary team process

f. Outcomes

Chapter 3: Related Professions 

a. Child protection

b. Law enforcement/courts

c. Mental health

d. Education

e. Advocacy

Part 3: Policy

Chapter 4: Legislation/Regulation Landscape

a. Federal model legislation and regulation

b. State legislation and regulation

Chapter 5: Policy Direction

a. Focus on family and communities

b. Connection to corporal punishment

c. Initiatives

i. Child fatalities: Protect Our Kids (POK) Commission

ii. Foster care: Reform

d. Prevention

i. Public health approach

ii. Emerging evidence-based approach

Chapter 6: Looking Towards the Future

a. Where do we go from here?

i. Response to cases that have occurred

ii. Prevention of cases before they occur

b. On the horizon

i. Connection to domestic violence

ii. Connection to ACEs

c. Focus on health promotion

i. Strong families

ii. Healthy communities

O autorze

Tanya S. Hinds, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician at the Freddie Mac Foundation Child and Adolescent Protection Center at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. Dr. Hinds also is assistant professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, is senior vice president/chief quality officer at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. He also is a professor of Pediatrics and section chief of Academic General Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Giardino is a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Medical Quality, and sub-boarded in Child Abuse Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a recipient of the Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Faculty Excellence Award, and is a board member for several national and regional boards. Dr. Giardino's academic accomplishments include publishing several textbooks on child abuse and neglect and medical education, presenting on a variety of pediatric topics at national and regional conferences, and publishing numerous chapters on education, mentoring, child maltreatment, and quality improvement. He also is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk.