Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensics - Mary Muscari

Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensics

A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2010
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2417-3 (ISBN)
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Designed to provide a quick resource for practicing emergency room nurses, pediatric critical care nurses, school nurses, nurse practitioners, and other health care providers, this title offers information in short chapters that can assist practitioners with the prevention, identification, and management of victims and offenders.
This book is designed to provide a quick resource for practicing emergency room nurses, pediatric critical care nurses, school nurses, nurse practitioners, and other health care providers. Student practitioners will also find the content helpful and readily useable as a reference guide. The book provides current, concise and easy-to-use information in short chapters that will assist practitioners with the prevention, identification, and management of victims and offenders. This content can be integrated into advanced family and pediatric curricula and can also be used in primary, community, and acute care pediatric and family settings as a useful, ongoing reference.

is an Associate Professor at the Decker School of Nursing, Binghamton, NY. She received her PhD and postmasters in psychiatric nursing from Adelphi University, her postmasters in forensic nursing from Duquesne University, and her masters in pediatric nursing from Columbia University. In addition to her research and teaching, Dr. Muscari has published more than 60 professional articles, several professional book chapters, and authored numerous newspaper and consumer articles. Dr. Muscari's research and works have also been well publicized. She has been interviewed by such publications as: Parents Magazine, Family Circle, Christian Science Monitor, Better Homes & Gardens, The Futurist, USAToday, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the LA Times. She has also interviewed by national and Canadian radio programs, including NPR and Ask Heloise.

Preface: The Forensic Aspects of Pediatrics

SECTION I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1. Cultural Aspects of Forensic Pediatrics
2. The Effects of Violence Exposure on Children
3. Forensic Assessment and Documentation
4. Principles of Evidence
5. Navigating the Juvenile Justice System
6. Expert Witness Testimony
7. Professional Stress and Burnout



SECTION II: CHILDREN AS VICTIMS
8. Child Abuse
9. Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma
10. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
11. Sexual Abuse
12. Sexual Exploitation
13. Child Abductions
14. Psychological Effects of Victimization
15. Children of Incarcerated Parents



SECTION III: CHILDREN AS OFFENDERS
16. Juvenile Delinquency
17. Child Delinquents
18. Female Delinquents
19. Bullying
20. School Violence
21. Juvenile Animal Cruelty
22. Juvenile Firesetting
23. Gangs
24. Juvenile Sex Offenders
25. Dating Violence



SECTION IV: UNNATURAL DEATHS
26. Medicolegal Child Death Investigation
27. Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
28. Filicide
29. Child and Adolescent Suicide
30. Asphyxial "Games"
31. Homicide Survivors



Appendix
Brief Forensic Glossary
Index

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 675 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege Kinderkrankenpflege
ISBN-10 0-8261-2417-8 / 0826124178
ISBN-13 978-0-8261-2417-3 / 9780826124173
Zustand Neuware
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