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...