The National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse is hosting a webinar, The Impact of Family Violence on Military Families. The session will be held November 14th from 10-11:30 PT. CMEs are available for docs; sadly none available for nurses. Registration is free of charge.
Category: Sexual Assault
A reader sent me a question asking if I had anything concise and, more importantly, free on asphyxia versus the narrower topic of strangulation. Turns out I do. Medscape published an article on this very subject: Pathology of Asphyxial Death. Even if you’re not interested in the death investigation aspect of the article, there’s still some useful information, including epidemiology and mechanisms of morbidity and mortality for clinicians of all stripes. There’s also an ancillary and adjunctive studies section at the end with links to some other fascinating topics.
Greetings from sunny Naples, FL, where I have been immersed in family for the weekend. A couple pieces of business for this Monday. First, congratulations to Deb O’Hay who is the winner of our latest giveaway! Deb, please contact me with your address so we can get your book to you. Second, although I have been surrounded by continuous family all weekend, I have managed to bookmark a few things for my flight home today. So here’s what I am (planning on) reading since last we spoke:
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW OVER. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.
STM Learning has a copy of their clinical text, Medical Response to Adult Sexual Assault, to give away to one FHO reader. All you have to do to be eligible to win is let us know in the Comments section of this post what other topics and/or materials you would like to see published that would assist you in your professional capacity. I will choose one winner at random from the responses at noon ET on Monday, October 14th, so be sure to get your answer in before then.
About the book:
Sexual assault remains one of the most problematic and controversial issues in law, medicine, and in society at large. Following the outcry against recent scandals, it has become even more important that medical, law enforcement, legal, social service, and other professionals possess comprehensive knowledge on all issues pertaining to rape, assault, sexual exploitation, and the exam findings of each.
Table of Contents:
1. History and Overview
2. Basic Anogenital Anatomy and Human Sexual Response
3. Body Injury and Dynamics of Sexual Assault
4. The Sexual Assault Exam: Components and Documentation
5. Biological Evidence: Collection and Use in Courtroom Testimony
6. Complications of Sexual Assault: STI and Pregnancy
7. Male Victims
8. Suspect Exams
9. Victim Impact and Recovery
10. Psychobiology of Trauma: Impact on Memory and Response
11. Education and Qualifications of the Sexual Assault Examiner
12. SART Operation
13. SART in the Military
14. Rape on Campus
15. Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault
16. Intimate Partner Violence
17. Human Trafficking
18. Elder Sexual Assault
19. Sexual Homicide
20. SANE-SART Evalutation
{Don’t forget to enter our current book giveaway!}
The Journal of Adolescent Health has a special issue out: Examining the Role of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships in the Intergenerational Continuity of Child Maltreatment. The entire issues appears to be available online free full-text so there’s no reason not to check it out. It’s a really interesting topic for a special issue, and one that we don’t see receive much air play, so I’m pretty excited about this.
Let me just preface this by saying that my beloved PubMed has essentially been furloughed with this shutdown, so it has a sad little message when you visit it right now–“PubMed is open, however it is being maintained with minimal staffing due to the lapse in government funding. Information will be updated to the extent possible, and the agency will attempt to respond to urgent operational inquiries. For updates regarding government operating status see USA.gov.” [insert nerd frownie face here] But we can’t stop with the Articles of Note just because the US has a spectacularly dysfunctional congress, so banish that thought.
The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council released their report, Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the US this week. There’s a research brief to accompany the full report, along with a slide deck for briefing.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our webinar yesterday. The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project actually offers two webinars a month: one pediatrics, one adult. October’s peds webinar is Total Recall or Mission Impossible? Developmentally Sensitive Interviewing of Children. It will be held October 9th from 3-4:30 pm, and as with all of the webinars from this project, free CEUs are available (1.5) and CMEs have been sought.
A Happy Monday to you all (or Tuesday for my subscribers who get this one day late)–I am finally back from Japan after a longer-than-anticipated trial and am thrilled to be home for the next 5 days. Hopefully some of you will be joining my colleague Jen Sommers and me on Wednesday for our webinar (a very clinically-focused session). And speaking of that webinar: a special congratulations to a member of our IHS project team–Sarah had her baby on Saturday–Noah James. If you’ve seen the photos on Facebook than you can back me on this–she grew herself a good looking baby boy.
I put in some long days in Japan, but had plenty of time to read while jet lagged out of my skull this morning, so here’s what I’ve been checking out since last we spoke:
SAFEta is hosting a webinar, PEP for Prevention of HIV: When, Why and How. The session will be held October 16th at 2m ET. Participation is free, but registration is a must.
I received a request for some new research that was available free, full-text, so what follows is some of the recent literature, all full-text PDFs. As with Articles of Note entries, this is not an exhaustive list; just a sampling of what’s come across my radar. I’ll try and do this type of post periodically…
IOM is having another report release event–this one is Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States. It will be held live and via webcast September 25th at 1pm ET. Registration is required for attendance online or at the event in DC. I will post the report when it becomes available.
I awoke in Japan this Tuesday morning (way too early) to news from my spouse that all of our friends are okay and accounted for at the Navy Yard, so I am grateful for that blessing, and also angry and horrified at the violence in a place where I have spent a significant amount of time professionally. There are plenty of links to the shooting and there will be much to read in its aftermath, so I am going to forgo that here, and share instead what I’ve been reading since last we spoke:
The students in our sustainability course have been having a fantastic discussion on chart review, which inspired me to update the clinical guide on peer review and competency. I have added a significant amount of content, including specific sections on how to conduct chart review, and a new section on quality assurance and quality improvement. I also updated the links to the 2nd edition of the National Protocol which support both competency evaluation and peer review. It had been a few years since I wrote that clinical guide, so I’m glad I had the push to get it updated. Hope it’s helpful.
The Institute of Medicine is releasing their report, New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research this Thursday, September 12th, at 1pm ET–live and via webcast. If you’d like to participate you can register here.
New from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, Measuring the Prevalence of Crime with the National Crime Victimization Survey. From the press release:
In 2010, the prevalence rate for violent crime was similar for males (20 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older) and for females (19 per 1,000). However, prevalence rates were higher for persons ages 18 to 24 (20 per 1,000) than for persons ages 25 to 34 (14 per 1,000) and persons 35 or older (seven per 1,000). Other findings from the report include the following:
Late notice on this one (sorry, that’s 2 for the week), but here’s another webinar for Tuesday, September 10th from 2-3:30pm ET. OJJDP is offering Child Trafficking, Girls and Detention: A Call to Reform. From the announcement:
First, let me just say this: tonight (Wednesday) begins Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Shanah Tovah to all who are observing the holiday. I will be spending a quiet holiday at home with my spouse (and my shiny new ID card!). Second, for those of you who interface with or work in corrections, the National PREA Resource Center is hosting a webinar next week on September 10th from 2-3:30 pm ET: Sexual Assault Forensic Protocol Guide for Corrections–Working Together to Provide a Victim-Centered Approach.
I meant to post this Friday before I knocked off for the day, but somehow never hit the publish button. So here (belatedly) is August’s Articles of Note, a compilation of some of the newest and most relevant research in the August/September/early October journals. Remember, this isn’t an exhaustive list, just some of what has caught my eye.
The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project has a couple of great webinars coming up in October (can’t believe I’m announcing October offerings already), including this one on October 17th at 2pm ET: Co-occurrence of Sexual and Domestic Violence. Raquel Kennedy Bergen is the featured speaker and CEs are available for nurses and have been applied for for docs.