Clinical GuidesOct
5
Sin By Silence
October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment
More documentaries to add to the list. This one in time for DV Awareness Month. Sin By Silence is making its television debut (PDF) October 17th at 8pm ET. It will be shown on the Investigation Discovery channel (find their channel in your area here).
Aug
23
Book Giveaway: Child Fatality Review
August 23, 2011 | 10 Comments
Our friends at STM Learning are back with a new book giveaway for FHO readers. Details on how to enter and what other special offers are available to readers after the jump:
Aug
3
Odds & Ends Wednesday: Medscape and NPR
August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment
There are several things I wanted to bring to your attention this morning: Medscape has some good stuff this week: **An article from the July 2011 Nursing Economics about violence against nurses and its personal and professional toll; **Gail Horner’s article on evaluating child sexual abuse that is cited in this month’s Articles of Note, [...]
Aug
1
Articles of Note, July/August Edition
August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Don’t forget: FHO’s latest giveaway is going on now through August 3rd! Get all the details here to enter. It’s time once again for Articles Note. These are a selection from peer-reviewed journals that feel particularly relevant to our practice. Remember, it’s in no way a comprehensive or exhaustive list, but it’s an excellent place to start. The [...]
Jul
28
Expert Chats @NIJ
July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Don’t forget: FHO’s latest giveaway is going on now through August 3rd! Get all the details here to enter. Have you seen the Expert Chat series at NIJ? I stumbled upon the archive, and there’s some really great stuff just waiting for you to find it, too. Not everything is clinically relevant, but the stuff that is [...]
Jul
19
Intimate Partner Homicide Prevention
July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
VAWNet has just published a brand new special collection on intimate partner homicide prevention that looks fantastic. It has a lot of the resources we frequently use when teaching on the topic of assessing dangerousness, in particular, that I really appreciate. See the full table of contents (with links) after the jump.
Jun
29
Child Fatalities
June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I have a lot of respected friends and colleagues who care for pediatric abusive head trauma and sexual abuse patients. And I have a lot of respected friends and colleagues who prosecute these cases. So I will be interested in feedback about this particular Frontline program (it debuted last night on PBS) that looks at child [...]
Jun
27
Healthy People 2020
June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In the US, the Department of Health and Human Services provides science-based healthcare objectives for the country in a document called Healthy People. Healthy People 2020 was released at the end of last year, and if you haven’t had a chance to see it (made easier by a pretty decent website), it’s worth looking at. Struggling to [...]
Jun
21
Articles of Note: June Edition
June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Time once again for this month’s Articles of Note. These are a selection from peer-reviewed journals that feel particularly relevant to our practice. Remember, it’s in no way a comprehensive or exhaustive list, but it’s an excellent place to start. The majority of the links will take you to PubMed. However, I have included one [...]
Jun
7
I’m in the CLE this week enjoying some family time, so apologies for light postings this week. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the National Association of County & City Health Officials and the Safe States Alliance are co-sponsoring a webcast, Programs and Partnerships to Prevent Gang-Related Youth Violence. The session will be held June 28th [...]
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