The article emphasizes the need for the practice nurse or nurse practitioner to recognize signs of abuse and neglect in child patients. A nurse may be the only person to have seen the injuries, so it is im...
Neglect is also when someone leaves the child alone for long stretches of time or under dangerous conditions. Other types of child abuse include: Parental substance abuse.This happens when adults neglect or harm children through the use of drugs oralcohol. It includes situations like: A parent n...
Child sexual abuseincludes any activity that uses a child to create sexual gratification either in you or in others. Although the touching of children as a sign of affection and for hygiene is considered normal and necessary, there is a way to distinguish normal touching from child sexual abuse...
Child sexual abuse does not have to involve sex, penetration, or nudity. Any time an adult or older person touches or handles a child inappropriately, even if the child doesn't seem to notice or mind, is problematic. Hugging, "playing," rubbing, lap-sitting, and any other physical contact...
摘要: Reviews two books on child abuse. 'Child Abuse and Neglect: A Clinician's Handbook,' by Christopher J. Hobbs, Helga G.I. Hanks and Jane M. Wynne; 'Physical Signs of Child Abuse: a Colour Atlas,' by Jane M. Wynne and Christopher J. Hobbs....
In the United States, parental neglect causing physical harm through the denial of proper care or the lack of supervision is a criminal act as defined by the Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA, 1996). Table of Contents ...
There are many systems for classifying child abuse, but the most practical one is perhaps the clinical system. It recognizes 4 main types of abuse, which are, in decreasing order of frequency, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional or psychological abuse. We will first discuss ph...
By learning the signs of nursing home abuse and neglect, you may be able to detect and respond to any mistreatment in nursing homes before it leads to serious consequences. To stop nursing home abuse, you need to know the signs — and you need to take swift action. ...
Getting and using the substance becomes increasingly crucial to you over time. As a result of your drug abuse, you may miss or be late for work or school more frequently, your job performance may decrease, and you may begin to neglect social or family responsibilities. Your ability to cease...
“The pandemic seemed like a perfect storm,” says Stephanie Deutsch, MD, MS, a pediatrician with a subspecialty in child abuse and neglect at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. The combination of forced isolation, a struggling economy, the ...