Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide and Color Atlas (2 Volume Set) [Box set] [Hardcover]

Angelo P. Giardino (Author), Elizabeth M. Datner (Author), Janice B. Asher (Author), Barbara W. Girardin (Author), Diana K. Faugno (Author), Mary J. Spencer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2003 | ISBN-10: 1878060627 | ISBN-13: 978-1878060624

Sexual Assault: Victimization Across the Life Span; A Clinical Guide and Color Atlas is an essential 2-volume set for anyone who may come in contact with someone who has been sexually assaulted. Professionals from the Medical, legal, and law enforcement fields will find critical information on how to perform a physical examination, properly document examinations and investigations, collect forensic evidence (including DNA analysis), and address legal and prosecution issues. Individual sections are devoted to the unique problems of sexual victimization of children, adolescents, and adults. Other invaluable chapters on domestic violence, acquaintance rape, male sexual assault, sexual assault in correctional settings, assault of the elderly, and victimization of people with disabilities are included.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Excellent tools... This is one of the best educational resources my office has ever purchased." -- Arial Trudeau, Victim Assistance Specialist, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program, Polk County Attorney's Office

"This book is the first to bring together the best information available concerning sexual victimization across the entire lifespan." -- Robert M. Reece, MD, Director, MSPCC Institute for Professional Education, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Executive Editor, the Quarterly Child Abuse Medical Update

"Until [prevention] becomes a cultural imperative of its own, we will continue to need books such as these..." --Randell Alexander, MD, PhD, Atlanta, GA

About the Author

Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, FAAP

Dr. Giardino is the Associate Chair for Pediatrics and the medical director for Child Abuse Services at St. Christopher¹s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pa. He is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Dr. Giardino earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency at The Children¹s Hospital of Philadelphia. He earned his doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where his work focused on outcomes assessment in professional education. He was named a clinical scholar at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar¹s Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and is a research fellow in the Division of General Pediatrics at The Children¹s Hospital of Philadelphia. During fellowship training, he pursued specialized training in the evaluation of child abuse and neglect. In 1995, while at the Children¹s Seashore house, he founded the Abuse Referral Clinic for Children with Special Care Needs. This clinic provided interdisciplinary evaluations of children with disabilities who were suspected of having been abused.

Currently, Dr. Giardino serves as an attending physician on the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) team at The Children¹s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1435 pages
• Publisher: STM Learning, Inc. (February 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878060627
• ISBN-13: 978-1878060624
• Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 9.8 x 4.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,731,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)