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.
Category: Child Abuse
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:
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The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Medical Home for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Violence is hosting a webinar, Practical Approaches with Patients Exposed to Multiple Types of Violence. The session will be held November 5th from 11am-12pm CT. You can see the details after the jump. If this one isn’t relevant to your practice they also have multiple archived webinars on their site, including this one: Beyond the First Exposure: The Physical, Mental, and Emotional Toll of Violence. Good stuff.
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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:
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 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.
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:
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 National Conferences on Child Abuse and Neglect folks are hosting a webinar September 12th at 2pm ET, The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: Implications for Policy, Practice and Prevention. Objectives for the session include:
One of my favorite military destinations is my annual trip to the Naval Justice School in Newport, RI. Never a bad place to go, but particularly lovely in August. So aside from getting to teach with one of my besties, I get the added benefit of the prime seaside location. Before I get on my plane, though, here’s a bit of what I’ve ben reading since last we spoke:
Our Tribal Forensic Healthcare project has an upcoming peds webinar this month–Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pediatric Patients. The session will be held August 27th at 3pm ET. CEUs and CMEs have been applied for for this webinar.
Polaris Project’s National Human Trafficking Resource Center has a webcast available, Recognizing Human Trafficking Victim Experiences. The presentation is about 35 minutes long and is interspersed with case studies and linked resources. Access the session here.
Time once again for Articles of Note, in which I share the recently published literature that’s capturing my attention. Please remember this is not an exhaustive overview of what’s newly available, but it should give you a good place to start. There’s some amazing stuff out this month, so I think this list is a particularly rich one. Plus several familiar names among the authors, which is always fun.
NCVC is offering a webinar coming up next week: Developing a Welfare Response to Child Trafficking. The session will be held July 25th at 2pm ET. You can register here.