Child Maltreatment
Objectives & Orientation
Required Reading
Impact of Maltreatment
- Coping With Becoming a Teen When You Have Been Mistreated as a Child
- Lifelong effects of Early Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress
Neglect
Physical Abuse
- Bruising in Children Assessed for Suspected Child Abuse
- Caregiver-Fabricated Illness in a Child
- Consensus Statement on Abusive Head Trauma In Infants and Young Children
- Evaluating Children with Fractures for Child Physical Abuse
- Evaluation of Suspected Child Physical Abuse
- Medical Assessment of Bruising - A Clinical Perspective
- Patterns of Skeletal Fractures
- Retinal Hemorrhage in Abusive Head Trauma
- Suspicious Childhood Injury - Formulation of Forensic Opinion
- Systematic Review of Abusive Visceral Injuries in Childhood - Range and Recognition
- Which Clinical Features Distinguish Inflicted from Non-Inflicted Brain Injury
Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Abuse
- 2018 Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused
Resources
Recommended Reading
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria
- Bruising in Infancy - When is it an Emergency?
- Bruised Pre-Mobile Infant - Should You Investigate Further?
- Can You Age Bruises Accurately?
- Controversies in Evaluations of Young Children with Bruises
- Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse
- Estimating Probability of Abusive Head Trauma
- Evaluating Infants and Young Children with Multiple Fractures
- Evaluation of Suspected Child Physical Abuse
- Investigation and Management of Suspected Abusive Head Trauma
- Managing Child Abuse - General Principles
- Neuroimaging - What Features Distinguish Abusive from Non-Abusive Head Trauma
- Oral and Dental Aspects of Child Abuse and Neglect
- Retinal
haemorrhages and
related findings in
abusive and
non-abusive head
trauma - Systematic Review of Features Indicating Intentional Scalds in Children