Quick Reference to Adult and Older Adult Forensics
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2422-7 (ISBN)
This book is designed to provide a quick resource for practicing adult and older adult health care providers. The book will also serve as a resource for student practitioners. It will include descriptions of principles of evidence, conducting a forensic assessment, competency, guardianship, and navigating the justice system. It will additionally provide current, concise, and easy-to-use information in short chapters that will assist practitioners with the prevention, identification, and management of victims and offenders.
Kathleen M. Brown, PhD, APRN-BC,is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing as well as a practicing Women's Health NP and a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for the Northampton County, PA, Sexual Assault Response Team. Mary Muscari, PhD, MSCr, CPNP, PMHCNS-BC, AFN-BC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner (NP), psychiatric clinical specialist, forensic nursing clinical specialist, and a criminologist, who combines her unique educational background with over 40 years of experience working with a wide variety of children and adolescents.
Preface: The Forensic Aspects of Adult & Older Adult Forensics
SECTION I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1. Cultural Aspects of Forensics
2. The Cycle and Continuum of Violence
3. Forensic Assessment and Documentation
4. Principles of Evidence
5. Navigating the Justice Systems
6. Expert Witness Testimony
7. Competency, Guardianship and Civil Commitment
8. Violence in Health Care Settings
9. Professional Stress and Burnout
SECTION II: OLDER ADULTS AS VICTIMS
10. Effects of victimization on adults and older adults
11. Victimization of adults and older adults with physical, cognitive and mental disabilities
12. Intimate Partner Violence in adults
13. Intimate Partner Violence in older adults
14. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Intimate Partner Violence
15. Elders abused by family members
16. Elders abused by health care workers
17. Female victims of sexual assault
18. Male victims of sexual assault
19 Elder victims of sexual assault
20. Victims of human trafficking
21. Victims of personal injury
22. Stalking
23. Resources for adult and older adult victims of violence
SECTION III: OLDER ADULTS AS OFFENDERS
24. Substance abuse and offending
25. Offenders with psychiatric or cognitive disorders
26. Dangerousness & risk assessment
27. Life long-offender versus the new offender
28. Offenders in correctional facilities
29. Offenders in the community
30. Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
31. Abusive parents
32. Perpetrators of elder abuse
33. Adult perpetrators of sexual violence
34. Older adult perpetrators of sexual violence
35. Female Offenders
36. Animal cruelty: abuse, hoarding, and animal fighting
37. Parenting while incarcerated
SECTION IV: UNATURAL DEATHS
38. Medicolegal Death Investigation
39. Suspicious deaths of elders in long-term care facilities
40. Death of elders related to neglect
41. Suicide/Homicide
42. Autoerotic fatalities
43. Families who lose a loved one to homicide
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 669 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-2422-4 / 0826124224 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-2422-7 / 9780826124227 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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