Child Fatality Review Quick Reference
For Health Care, Social Service, and Law Enforcement Professionals
Published on 30. January 2011
400 pages
978-1-936590-07-0 (ISBN)
Description
400 pages, 150 images, 77 contributors
Child Fatality Review Quick Reference features the best practices in the investigation of child death. It is a valuable resource both for active members of child fatality review teams (CFRTs) and for any professionals who collaborate with CFRTs in the process of child death review. This detailed reference is exhaustive in scope yet conveniently sized to suit the needs of frontline practitioners working in crime scenes, in the courtroom, or in the medical setting.
This reference describes in full the respective roles and responsibilities of CFRT members, from coroners and medical examiners, to law enforcement and district prosecutors, as well as a variety lay investigators, community representatives, and child welfare personnel. CFRT professionals across disciplines will all benefit from this in-depth guide to investigative protocols for all manner of abusive and negligent, accidental, and natural death in children.
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Randell Alexander | J. C. Upshaw Downs | Mary Case
Child Fatality Review Quick Reference
For Healthcare, Social Service, and Law Enforcement Professionals
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02/2011
GW Medical
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Persons
Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. He is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.
Content
1. Fatality Review Teams
2. Fatality Review Procedures
3. Epidemiology of Child Fatality
4. Pediatric Ophthalmology
5. Law Enforcement, Courts, and CPS
6. Social and Environmental Issues
7. Homicides
8. Perinatal Deaths
9. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
10. Physical Abuse
11. Neglect
12. Nonabusive Injuries
13. Suicides
14. Burns
15. Drownings
16. Medical Conditions
2. Fatality Review Procedures
3. Epidemiology of Child Fatality
4. Pediatric Ophthalmology
5. Law Enforcement, Courts, and CPS
6. Social and Environmental Issues
7. Homicides
8. Perinatal Deaths
9. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
10. Physical Abuse
11. Neglect
12. Nonabusive Injuries
13. Suicides
14. Burns
15. Drownings
16. Medical Conditions
