Lasher and Sheridan provide child welfare professionals and staff, law enforcement, school personnel, health care practitioners, judges and lawyers, and social workers with an up-to-date overview of Munchausen by proxy (MBP). Coverage includes the definition of MBP; the role of the perpetrator, victim, and others; ethical issues affecting professio

Munchausen By Proxy is the first book to offer a step-by-step guide through a suspected Munchausen By Proxy (MBP) maltreatment case from initial grounds for suspicion onwards. This skills-based, practical book is generously enhanced with case examples, sample forms, diagnostic guidance, figures and representative management plans. MBP is a dangerous kind of maltreatment in which a carer or another authority figure deliberately and repreatedly exaggerates, fabricates and/or induces a health problem or problems in someone under his or her care. Authors Lasher and Sheridan, experts in MBP and...

This book is an anthology of readings, intended for introductory American studies classes. The readings cover the following eras in American history; the Colonial period, the Revolution, the expansion of democracy (early 19th Century), the Civil War (with a range of materials on slavery), expansion into the frontier, the early 20th Century, and the mid-20th Century to the present. Each of these eras is subdivided into themes: land, government, people, non-mainstream perceptions, and international issues of perceptions. America presents a range of influential thinkers, thoughts, and issues in...