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DV/IPV

Everyday Magic: 16 Ways Adults Can Support Children Exposed to Violence and Trauma

In our line of work, we often are either caring for traumatized children as our primary patients, or they are accompanying a parent there to see us. Futures Without Violence recently published Everyday Magic: 16 Ways Adults Can Support Children Exposed to Violence and Trauma (PDF). Let’s face it, there aren’t enough things coming across my desk with the word “magic” in them, so I confess, points to the authors for the title alone. It’s more than a pleasing title, though; it’s nicely referenced, straight-forward, and distributable to other colleagues who could use the assist, as well–might be a good one for discussion at your next ED inservice, or staff or MDT meeting.

(h/t: VAWnet)

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Child Abuse Sexual Assault

Since Last We Spoke 10-19-15

My best friend was in town this weekend, so it was a non-stop food fest, and a chance to play tourist in my own city. I was back online last night, though, after a day working on a rather chewy writing project for a 3-letter government agency. Here’s what caught my eye since last we spoke:

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Child Abuse Sexual Assault

Medical Care of Child Sex Abuse Victims and Child Forensic Interviewing Best Practices

The Midwest Regional CAC has a multidisciplinary webinar coming up: Medical Care of Child Sex Abuse Victims. The session will be held October 22nd at 1pm CT. This offering comes with 2 hours of CMEs (also POST credits and social work, but astonishingly, no nursing credits). Click through for details, as well as information on a new publication from OJJDP:

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Child Abuse Sexual Assault

Sexually Transmitted Infections in Suspected Child Sexual Abuse

A reader asked for options for educational offerings on sexually transmitted infections in suspected child sexual abuse cases. You’re in luck–I have a couple. One is an archived webinar from the Tribal Forensic Healthcare project, and it has CEU/CMEs available (expires 3/16/16). The National Children’s Advocacy Center also has an archived webinar; no continuing education credits appear to be available for this one, but it may be more suitable for a multidisciplinary audience if that’s your need. And as a companion, you’ll find the most current CDC treatment guidelines for children here.

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DV/IPV Sexual Assault

Since Last We Spoke 10-12-15

This weekend was all about the Army 10-Miler. Prepping for, running and then recovering from the race (which truthfully looked a whole lot like eating everything we could get our hands on for a 12-hour period). It was a great run (always inspiring), we shaved 10 minutes off our last race time, and while I feel every one of my 40+ years in these knees and achilles, I am still upright and willing to do it again next year, so that’s something. Bonus for having our dear friend in town to cheer us on, having just finished a prolonged bout of chemo. It made the weekend extra special. I stayed away from the interwebs by and large, which is why this list is shorter than normal; but here’s what did catch my eye since last we spoke:

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Child Abuse DV/IPV Elder Abuse/Neglect Sexual Assault

Updated Clinical Guide: Determining the Age of Bruising

I have updated the clinical guide, Determining the Age of Bruising. It’s one of our more popular one (I send a lot of lawyers there, in particular), so I’m glad to have had the opportunity to overhaul this one. There’s some new research, plus I am trying to slowly get all of them in a consistent format. You’ll find both a Word doc with active hyperlinks and the more printer friendly PDF. Enjoy.

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DV/IPV Sexual Assault

#BeyondtheBruises

I mentioned in Monday’s post that the Society for Women’s Health Research had a new campaign, #BeyondtheBruises. This is a campaign geared toward raising awareness about the healthcare impact of domestic violence, so it’s a great resource for sharing with other members of your provider community. Of note: there’s a 5ish minute video included as a part of this site (click through to view) that would make a great intro to an inservice on this topic.

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DV/IPV Sexual Assault

Since Last We Spoke, 10-5-15

How many more of these posts can I do that start out with a host of links to the latest round-up of articles on mass shootings? You know what–don’t answer that. I don’t want to know. Because I know this isn’t my last one. Once again, I reiterate, we are gun-owning, military household. Not trying to trample anyone’s 2nd amendment rights. But heaven help me, I have a kid I am trying to grow into an adult and I need her to be safe in public spaces, so tell me how it’s possible we won’t even let the CDC study gun violence, let alone regulate the purchase of these things. Anyway, click through–I promise, I’ve been reading about more than just Oregon since last we spoke:

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DV/IPV Sexual Assault

Friday Extra: House Calls To The Homeless

This site chronicles the vast majority of my professional life in one way or another. It’s easy to track my wanderings here, and most of how I spend my time is a pretty open book. However, a couple evenings a month, removed from much of this world, I grab my stethoscope and go see patients at a local family shelter. It’s one of the things I most look forward to in my week, and it gives me the opportunity to take care of patients, which is magical.

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Elder Abuse/Neglect

Elder Abuse Webinar at Tribal Forensic Healthcare

The next adult-focused webinar in the series over at the Tribal Forensic Healthcare project is on elder abuse. It’ll be held October 7th from 3-4:30pm. As with all of their sessions, CEs are available, and it will be archived, so no worries if you can’t participate live. Click through for details:

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DV/IPV Sexual Assault

The Intersections Between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV/AIDS

VAWnet has a new collection available: the Intersections Between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV/AIDS. While this is not a collection geared specifically toward healthcare providers, there’s plenty that is clinically relevant. It’s worth your time to sift through the multitude of resources here.

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Sexual Assault

Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Action Research Project

The Battered Women’s Justice Project is hosting a webinar, The Detroit Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Action Research Project (ARP). It will be held October 5th from 1:30-3pm CT. Dr. Rebecca Campbell and Kimberly Hurst, Executive Director of the Wayne County Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Program, will be the featured speakers. Click through for details:

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Sexual Assault

Since Last We Spoke, 9-28-15

I confess I’m feeling a little short on happy talk today, so maybe we’ll skip the usual beginning of the week pleasantries and get right into it. Let’s check out what caught my eye since last we spoke:

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Sexual Assault

Interesting Conversations About Toluidine Blue Dye Use

With the interesting conversation about toluidine blue dye use going on over at the IAFN community site, a quick reminder, we have a clinical guide on that topic here at FHO. There seems to be some disagreements about where it can be used, however, so click through for excerpts from the peer-reviewed literature that may help provide guidance:

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Child Abuse DV/IPV

Effectively Addressing Policy Challenges in Implementing Integrated Care for Child Trauma

Here’s an intriguing webinar being offered next week for all of you policy people: Effectively Addressing Policy Challenges in Implementing Integrated Care for Child Trauma. It’s being offered by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network on September 29th at 11:30am PT. Click through for the (somewhat vague) description of the session:

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Child Abuse Sexual Assault

Plenary Sessions from #NSAC2015

If, like me, you didn’t have the opportunity to travel to LA last month for the National Sexual Assault Conference (and I’m beyond excited that in 2016 it will be in DC since I haven’t been in some time), click through for videos of some of the plenary sessions from the conference, including Valerie Jarrett, Senior Policy Advisor to President Obama; Monica Ramirez, Women and Public Policy Fellow of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda; and Jackson Katz:

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Sexual Assault

Sexual Assault Kits: Using Science to Find Solutions

In case you missed it, NIJ released a pretty terrific multimedia site dedicated to the issue of DNA testing, the sexual assault kit backlog, the multidisciplinary response, and a host of interrelated issue. You’ll find some videos (with several familiar faces), case studies, and lots of resources. It’s definitely worth spending some time working your way through it. Enough data to satisfy the nerdy, but plenty for practitioners, I think NIJ has done a good job with this one.

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Child Abuse DV/IPV Sexual Assault

Since Last We Spoke, 9-21-15

You may have noticed I took some time away from the site last week. I don’t usually disappear like that, but looming deadlines coupled with some time away to celebrate my dad’s accomplishments in the 216 meant that this site got a bit neglected. Frankly I needed the space, so it was good to have it. But now I’m back in the office, refreshed and ready to face the week. It includes the holiest day in my year; an interesting talk Wednesday morning here in town (I’ll be speaking about social media use); and the march toward wrapping up my time with the Army. Hard to believe this year is coming to an end (and how much work we’ve accomplished–if you’re curious we’ll be presenting about it in Orlando). In the meantime, I spent most of my weekend pretty unplugged, although I managed to get a bit of reading done. Here’s what caught my eye since last we spoke:

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Articles of Note Child Abuse DV/IPV Elder Abuse/Neglect Sexual Assault Testimony

Articles of Note, September 2015 Edition

It’s time once again for Articles of Note, your monthly guide to what’s new in the peer-reviewed literature. Keep in mind that this isn’t an exhaustive list, just what’s caught my attention and feels particularly relevant (at least to the work I do). As always, there’s so much more out there, so spend some time on PubMed or Google Scholar if you can (or better yet–at your local medical library). This should at least get you started. Some interesting work on elder abuse in particular this month, although the articles run the gamut of much of the violence we see in our practices. Click through for the sharable PDF and the Word doc with active hyperlinks:

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Child Abuse Sexual Assault Testimony

Since Last We Spoke, 9-14-15

I’m at Maxwell AFB today for a quick lecture before heading back to DC. It was a reserve weekend for Sasha, which meant a work weekend for me (when I wasn’t traveling), so not much in the way of downtime. But when I was in need of some distraction, the interwebs provided plenty of fodder. Here’s what caught my eye since last we spoke: