MNCAVA’s Global Violence Prevention site has a couple case-based tutorials available. One of them focuses on domestic violence in later life. It’s recently updated and provides a nice overview of many of the issues that come up working with this specific patient population.
OVC‘s Web Forum series is featuring a session on forensic interviewing in tribal communities Aril 29th from 2-3pm ET. If you’ve participated in these sessions in the past, you know to submit your questions ahead of time and then return to the site at the designated time for the online conversation. You can find complete instructions on how to participate here.
Last year, at Prevent Child Abuse America‘s national conference, they had a plenary on the future of child abuse. It was a pretty distinguished panel, including Dr. Robert F. Anda, Co-Principal Investigator, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE Study), Dr. Phaedra Corso, University of Georgia College of Public Health, Linda Gorchels, UW-Madison School of Business, Rutledge Q. Hutson, Center for Law and Social Policy and Bryan Specht, Dig Communications. They have a podcast available of the session on their blog site. Running time is approximately 60 minutes.
I usually try to avoid posting sequential offerings from a single source, but I’m going to make an exception this time. Last night, ater getting back to my hotel, I found this item in my Reader and decided to share it today since it’s a live event: The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA) is hosting a webcast April 14th from 2-3:30PM ET. Entitled Preventing Exploitation of Children and Adolescents on the Internet, the session requires advanced registration, which you can make happen here.
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Time once again for a run down of some of the new and noteworthy articles in the current literature. Most of these are from the April/May issues, although I have included a couple March publications that missed me on the 1st pass. As always, please keep in mind this in no way a comprehensive list; simply items that have caught my attention from a selection of peer-reviewed journals. All links lead to abstracts; from there you can choose what’s worth a.) paying for; b.) a pilgrimage to your nearest medical library; or c.) downloading via the full-text access you possibly have at your disposal.
April is also National Child Abuse Prevention Month. You can find a full compliment of information over at the Child Welfare Information Gateway. Check out this year’s resource guide and related materials here.
The Institute for Family Violence Studies at the Florida State University College of Social Work put together an online tutorial on DV and child victimization. The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Victimization: Understanding the Issues, Developing a Coordinated Community Response was created for domestic violence advocates and their communities, so although it isn’t healthcare specific, there’s a good amount of relevant information here.
[Warning: flight of ideas is about to ensue…]
Tuesday night Joy Behar interviewed Robin Givens, Denise Brown, Erin Gray and Victor Rivers about domestic violence on Larry King Live. I was happy to hear Victor talk about the importance of engaging men in DV prevention and the dangers of bystander behavior, and it reminded me of the documentary in which he had been featured many years ago, Breaking the Silence: Journeys of Hope (PBS).
I’m auditioning a new feature to the site: a monthly look at what’s new and notable in the literature. Obviously this won’t be a comprehensive review, since A.) there are hundreds of journals to comb through and who has that kind of time? and B.) my interests skew in a pretty specific direction so I’m sure there’s stuff out there that wouldn’t necessarily catch my attention but would be compelling and/or relevant to many of you.
Dr. Rachel Berger, from the University of Pittsburgh (a source of previous blog posts on this site), gave pediatric grand rounds at the Seattle Children’s Hospital last summer. You can view a webcast of her talk, Using Serum Biomarkers to Screen for Inflicted Traumatic Brain Injury: How Close Are We? archived on the hosptal’s site (warning: video plays automatically). Physicians seeking CEs can submit this form for up to 1 AMA PRA Category 1 credit. Sorry, nurses, no CEU equivalent from this offering.
USAID has an online education site with quite a few reproductive health courses. One of them is on female genital mutilation/cutting. Because this issue is coming up for us in a variety of clinical situations, I thought it would be helpful to post a course providing a basic overview of the clinical picture.
The Child Trauma Academy in Houston, TX is now accepting registrations for their Spring Clinical Teaching Series. The series offers 10 online sessions on a variety of topics related to working with high-risk children using the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. All courses take place on Fridays from 11:30-1pm, Central Time.
In my inbox today:
… a special webinar on Monday, February 23 (3-4:30pm ET) featuring Stop It Now! and Darkness to Light – two national organizations leading the effort to prevent the sexual abuse of children. This online exchange will help you learn from our experiences by presenting research informed practice and real life successes.
Child Death Reviews (or Child Fatality Reviews as they’re called in my neck of the woods) are happening in all 50 states and in countries around the world. Talking about child fatalities doesn’t always mean putting lessons learned into practice, though. The University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neurological Surgery’s Center for Injury Research and Control has an archived webinar on this topic: The Role of the Injury Professional on the Child Death Review Team: Translating CDR Findings to Injury Prevention Policy and Practice.
The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome has an online training center for professionals and the lay public. One of the professional courses they offer is an intermediate course on Shaken Baby Syndrome and Abusive Head Trauma. It is comprised of 4 lessons, including an Overview of Shaken Baby Syndrome, Medical Perspectives, Investigation and Legal Issues, and Prevention.
In the Summer of 2007 the American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidelines for accurately evaluating and diagnosing children appearing to have been physically abused. While this information is not new per se, Medscape is still offering a CE unit on the guidelines (for nurses and physicians), valid until June 10, 2009.
The Child Trauma Academy offers several free online courses on a variety of topics, including one that people frequently seem to be searching for: secondary (or vicarious) trauma. The Cost of Caring: Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Impact of Working with High-Risk Children and Families uses slides and narrative content, including case studies, broken into 4 lessons:
Each lesson includes as assignment or quiz: some of these might be excellent jumping off points for conversation at staff meetings or team retreats (just a thought).
Nursing Spectrum is offering 1 CEU on the topic Munchausen by Proxy: Recognizing A Form of Child Abuse. This is an online article with accompanying test, and is available for $10.
They also offer a deal where, for $34.99, you can access all of their online CE programs 1.5 hours or less and all state mandated CE programs at no additional cost for 1 year. Additionally, larger modules are 50% off. Visit their site for a complete listing.