Paul Clements & Ann Burgess 
Nursing Approach to the Evaluation of Child Maltreatment 2e [EPUB ebook] 

Table of Contents
1. The Problem of Child Abuse and Neglect
2. Presentation and Overview of the Evaluation of
Child Maltreatment
3. History and the Healthcare Interview
4. The Physical Examination in the Evaluation of Suspected Child Maltreatment: Physical Abuse and Sexual Abuse Examinations
5. Laboratory Findings, Diagnostic Testing, and Forensic Specimens in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
6. Sexually Transmitted Infection in the Setting
of Maltreatment
7. Differential Diagnosis: Conditions That Mimic
Child Maltreatment
8. Clinical Aspects of Child Neglect
9. Documenting the Evaluation of Suspected Child Maltreatment Cases
10. Mental Health Aspects of Child Survivors of
Abuse and Neglect
11. Sexual Abuse of Adolescents
12. When the Medical System is Misused: The Condition Formerly Known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
13. Child Protective Services and Child Abuse
14. Legal Issues
15. Children in the Violent Home: The Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment
16. Risks to Children in the Digital Age of the Internet and Social Networking
17. Prevention of Child Maltreatment
18. Human Trafficking: A Health Care Perspective
19. Substance Dependence and Child Maltreatment
20. Forensic Nursing

Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children’s Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children’s Hospital’s forensic pediatrics service at the Children’s Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. Angelo Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Angelo Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis.