David L. Chadwick & Angelo P. Giardino 
Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4e, Volume 1 [EPUB ebook] 
Physical Abuse and Neglect

600 pages, 1177 images, with 32 contributors

The first volume in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of the signs and effects of physical abuse and neglect toward children. The clinical text includes essential information for professionals who work to identify, treat, and prevent child physical abuse and neglect.

More than 30 medical experts collaborated to provide the latest clinical data and research on topics ranging from burns and bruises in child maltreatment to oral injuries and the effects of chemical abuse.

Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment, Volume One: Physical Abuse and Neglect features clinical text accompanied by a photographic atlas in the back of the book that includes current case studies and more than 1100 images and illustrations that complement many of the main topics included in the clinical text, plus chapters on radiology and photodocumentation.

Tabella dei contenuti

1. Overview of Child Maltreatment
2. Skeletal and Visceral Radiological Imaging
3. Abusive Head Trauma
4. Burns in Child Maltreatment
5. Bruises in Child Maltreatment
6. Ophthalmic Manifestations
7. Oral Injuries
8. Thoracoabdominal Injuries in Physically Abused Children
9. The Chemically Abused Child
10. Neglect and Abandonment
11. Failure to Thrive
12. Head Injuries Atlas
13. Burns Atlas
14. Bruises Atlas
15. Ophthalmology Atlas
16. Oral Injuries Atlas
17. Thoracoabdominal Imaging in Non-Accidental Injury Atlas
18. Radiology Atlas
19. Photodocumentation Atlas
20. Physical Abuse Documentation Atlas
21. Demonstrations Atlas
22. Neglect Atlas
23. Documentation of Neglect Atlas

Circa l’autore

Debra Esernio-Jenssen, MD is currently a Professor in Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Florida and has served as the Medical Director of the Child Protection Team since 2010. In 2009 she was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Child Abuse Pediatrics.