Battered Child Syndrome

Ichthyosiform Erythroderma, Congenital

Syndrome

Shaken baby syndrome

Mandated reporter

The Oslo Syndrome

Bruise

C. Henry Kempe

Joan Court

Child protective services

Parental abuse by children

Auguste Ambroise Tardieu

Physical abuse

Domestic violence

Landeros v. Flood

United States Children's Bureau

Mansfield Park

Glossary of psychiatry

Terrell Peterson

Fanny Price

Subpoena duces tecum

Kempe

Index of criminology articles

Kemp (surname)

Moral panic

Mandatory reporting in the United States

Urban survival syndrome

1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting

Hedda Nussbaum

Chrystul Kizer case

O. J. Simpson murder case

Maria Teresa Carlson

Factitious disorder imposed on self

List of EastEnders characters (1985)

Abuse defense

Julia Roberts

Murder of Dale Harrell

Timeline of LGBT history in the United Kingdom

List of The Archers characters

Tyson Ross

Just-world hypothesis

Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

Tutankhamun

Guillermo Mota

Victim mentality

Deaths in 2022

Harvey Hilbert

Robert Wilentz

Violence against women

September 1971

List of MeSH codes (I01)

Rowena Guanzon

Dansville, Michigan

Victim blaming

Jaime García (baseball)

Trial of Oscar Pistorius

Female perversion

List of ICD-9 codes 800-999: injury and poisoning

Mark Wohlers

19622

• In 1962 , the term "battered child syndrome" was coined. (medpagetoday.com)
• Battered-child syndrome was first described by the paediatrician Kempe (1962) as exhibiting external signs of injury, fractures (also metaphyseal and ribs), subdural haemorrhage (SDH) and commonly being associated with parental psychiatric factors. (biomedcentral.com)

Neglect24

• Working in an academic hospital unit then known as the National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect (now The Kempe Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues published several books and papers providing practical guidance for health professionals and educators concerned about child maltreatment. (springer.com)
• These publications focused on recognition of children who had experienced abuse and neglect, treatment of such children and their families with social and mental health services, and prediction and prevention of child abuse and neglect in the perinatal period (e.g. (springer.com)
• the specialty child welfare agency charged with protection of children from maltreatment) and juvenile courts were generally perceived to be helpful to families and to have the resources to provide services to families who needed them (primarily families where there was physical abuse, intimate partner violence, and neglect). (springer.com)
• see U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect ( 1993 ). (springer.com)
• These developments led to the legislative formation of the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect. (springer.com)
• Call 911 or the local emergency number for any child in immediate danger because of abuse or neglect. (medlineplus.gov)
• Child abuse and neglect. (medlineplus.gov)
• An analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) examined child abuse and neglect hospitalization in the United States from 1998 to 2016. (medscape.com)
• Researchers found that the rate of child abuse or neglect hospitalizations-on average, 6.9 per 100,000 children annually-did not vary significantly over the study period. (medscape.com)
• Hospitalizations due to child abuse and neglect remain steady and are costly, averaging over $116 million per year. (medscape.com)
• This case shows that although child abuse often involves an action that harms the child, inaction such as neglect can also cause harm. (medscape.com)
• We can take heart that over the recent ve decades, a great deal of professional attention focused on the problem of child abuse and neglect. (academicbooks.dk)
• Progress in understanding the factors that place children at risk for harm from ph- ical abuse and neglect now permits prevention and intervention. (academicbooks.dk)
• The peer-reviewed literature dealing with child abuse and neglect has proliferated with high quality work being done and reported on the many dimensions related to the epidemi- ogy, mechanism, treatment, and prognosis of child maltreatment. (academicbooks.dk)
• Efforts are being directed toward developing an evidence-based approach to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. (academicbooks.dk)
• Despite a tremendous amount of attention to the pr- lem of maltreatment, there are at least 3 million reports of suspected child abuse and neglect made annually, with nearly 1 million cases being substantiated. (academicbooks.dk)
• By doing so, the bureau s national clearinghouse for research and improvement of child abuse and neglect, as well as mental models existing exclusively in the present very partial and fragmented provision can be helpful to postulate) a nonrepresented narrating instances on whose memories these hallucinations are based, precisely. (umt.edu)
• The phrase "Child Abuse and Neglect" has been commonly used since the first reported case of the Battered Child Syndrome that today we hardly think of abuse without the other. (edu.ph)
• The rapid rise in the prevalence and incidence of sexual exploitations of children in the last decade has further pushed the issues of neglect to the background. (edu.ph)
• This unintended "de-emphasis" has reached to an extreme apathy that today the litany of child neglect has insidiously caused untold catastrophe in our society. (edu.ph)
• There is the need to bring back this issue of child neglect to its rightful place in the total care of the child. (edu.ph)
• Traditionally the word "abuse" was equated with physical aspect of maltreatment, while "neglect" simply meant our failure to meet certain basic needs of the child. (edu.ph)
• 2. Clarify terminology and semantics as they relate to child neglect with special emphasis on various interpretations and perception of causes and outcomes. (edu.ph)
• North Carolina courts have held that conduct creating a substantial risk of harm in the context of child neglect includes alcohol and drug abuse. (rflaw.net)

Kempe3

• The Battered child / edited by Ray E. Helfer and C. Henry Kempe. (who.int)
• The multidisciplinary approaches described in these publications were based on efforts originating with the identification of the battered child syndrome in the 1960s (Kempe et al. (springer.com)
• As we near the 50th anniversary of the landmark article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues entitled "The Battered Child Syndrome", which ushered in the modern era of professional attention by pediatricians and other child health professionals, we have reason for both celebration and concern. (academicbooks.dk)

Child's injuries1

• Sometimes a doctor observing a child's injuries might conclude that the child suffers from "battered child syndrome," meaning that the child's injuries are of such a nature that they were not suffered by accidental means. (rflaw.net)

Women's2

• Perhaps it's boiling frog syndrome, the fact that global hunger and women's rights are ongoing tragedies/travesties without sudden spikes of interest. (undispatch.com)
• There's a whole name for that, actually: battered women's syndrome. (latimes.com)

Injuries3

• A clinical condition resulting from repeated physical and psychological injuries inflicted on a child by the parents or caregivers. (nih.gov)
• The girl's death was ruled a homicide two days later, after an autopsy which also revealed additional traumatic injuries and evidence of Battered Child Syndrome. (scallywagandvagabond.com)
• However, North Carolina courts have determined that where an adult is caring for a child and during that time the child suffers injuries that are neither self-inflicted or accidental, a presumption is raised that the adult inflicted the injuries. (rflaw.net)

Maltreatment6

• In the early 1990s, the U.S. Advisory Board issued several reports to advise Congress, the Administration, the child protection field, and the general public about how to address the problem of child maltreatment. (springer.com)
• For more details on the history of the U.S. Advisory Board, possible reasons for its limited effect on policy, and a cautiously optimistic view of its generational influence on understanding of child maltreatment, see Metrikin-Gold ( 2015 ). (springer.com)
• 24.2%) accounted for most child maltreatment cases. (medscape.com)
• Government insurance was the most common payer source, accounting for 77.3% of all child maltreatment hospitalizations and costing $1.4 billion from 2001 to 2016. (medscape.com)
• To analyse the transfer of knowledge on how to detect physical abuse, especially shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma (SBS/AHT), and its association to trends in infant abuse diagnoses (maltreatment and assault). (biomedcentral.com)
• This study shows that a comprehensive national transfer of knowledge on the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma (SBS/AHT) paradigm was associated with a major increase in incidence of infant maltreatment diagnoses, which might encompass hidden cases and/or false positives. (biomedcentral.com)

Protective Services3

• If you think a child is being abused, contact a health care provider, the police, or child protective services in your city, county or state. (medlineplus.gov)
• According to neighbors, Child Protective Services had been to the home several times over the years, but the children were never taken from the home. (scallywagandvagabond.com)
• The North Carolina Child Protective Services Manual lists signs of child abuse as "significant trauma and tissue damage, such as bruises, welts, or lacerations. (rflaw.net)

Adolescent2

• To verify if dentists working in the city of Cravinhos (São Paulo, Brazil) have received proper instruction and training for identifying cases of child and adolescent abuse and if they knew how to act when facing this situation. (bvsalud.org)
• Regarding to the suspect of a patient (child or adolescent) had suffered domestic or psychological abuse, 26.31% of the respondents answered they were able to recognize it. (bvsalud.org)

Hospitalization1

• In 1951 , the term Munchausen syndrome was used to describe the fabrication of medical symptoms, which could lead to hospitalization and unnecessary surgery. (medpagetoday.com)

Recognition2

• Prior to the 1960s, there was no recognition in the English language medical literature of the physical abuse of children and therefore the diagnosis was not considered in cases of unexplained serious injury in babies and children. (edu.au)
• A statutory and legal recognition of the Battered Woman's Syndrome will establish that the law has taken into account not only the physical and psychological considerations of a woman, but also protect her human integrity and dignity which have been extended to every citizen under the provisions of the Right to Life provided under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. (lawanthology.com)

Atlanta2

• MADDSP identifies all children aged 3-10 years residing in five counties of metropolitan Atlanta (Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett {total 1990 estimated population of children aged 3-10 years: 252,377}) with any of four developmental disabilities: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, moderate-to-severe hearing impairment, and moderate-to-severe vision impairment. (cdc.gov)
• Among children in metropolitan Atlanta, the proportions of developmental disabilities attributable to postnatal causes are consistent with previous studies (1-4). (cdc.gov)

Search1

• Results of search for 'su:{Battered child syndrome. (who.int)

Trauma2

• Studies show that at least 10% of children younger than 5 years who are brought to the emergency room with trauma have actually suffered nonaccidental trauma. (medscape.com)
• The neurosurgeon Guthkelch (1971) hypothesised that repeated acceleration/deceleration caused SDH and retinal haemorrhage (RH) in cases of suspected battered-child syndrome without external signs of trauma [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)

Term5

• Munchausen by proxy is a term derived from Munchausen syndrome. (medpagetoday.com)
• In 1977 , the term Munchausen syndrome by proxy was first described: a parent purposefully feigning medical symptoms in their child, harming their child, in order for that parent to get the desired attention. (medpagetoday.com)
• This latter term -- medical child abuse -- feels especially fitting because this behavior, whatever the psychological reason behind it, is without a doubt abuse of a child. (medpagetoday.com)
• According to groensteen, the term battered child syndrome m in 2036, the children s charter in wartime, printed the same tactics in another. (umt.edu)
• The term "Battered Woman Syndrome" was coined by Dr. Lenore Walker, who used original research and stated that the syndrome denoted a set of distinct psychological and behavioral symptoms that resulted from prolonged exposure to intimate partner violence. (lawanthology.com)

Statute2

• One element of the North Carolina misdemeanor child abuse statute requires that for a person to be guilty of misdemeanor child abuse, the State must prove that such person inflicted the physical injury upon the child. (rflaw.net)
• In India, the Battered Woman Syndrome does not have a legal status per se, since there is no specific law dealing with the doctrine or carving out the act committed due to the Battered Woman Syndrome as an exception to the statute of murder under the criminal code. (lawanthology.com)

Pediatricians1

• When forensic psychiatrists testify about the state-of-mind of the perpetrator or pediatricians testify about medical child abuse in these cases, much of what the jury or judge knows may have come from crime fiction. (medpagetoday.com)

Wartime1

• in others, native american children in wartime instructions for home use. (chapman.edu)

Physical abuse2

• Child physical abuse is a serious problem. (medlineplus.gov)
• Child physical abuse is when a person physically hurts a child. (medlineplus.gov)

Younger2

• There are state and other government departments or agencies that are responsible for the protection of children younger than age 18. (medlineplus.gov)
• For infants and children younger than 2 years, a skeletal survey should be performed as the initial screening examination when child abuse is being considered. (medscape.com)

Disorders1

• Despite scientific evidence, among disorders of mineralization, nonrachitic disorders of vitamin D have become a popular nonscientific theory to explain fractures identified in abused children. (medscape.com)

Concern1

• The ability to identify child abuse constitutes an important concern for those involved in the medical care of children. (medscape.com)

19742

• As the U.S. Advisory Board ( 1993 ) summarized, the number of reports escalated "from an estimate of a few hundred cases in the early 1960s to reports of 60,000 cases in 1974 (when the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was enacted), 1.1 million cases in 1980, 2.4 million cases in 1989, and nearly three million cases in 1992" (U.S. Advisory Board 1993 , p. 8, footnote omitted). (springer.com)
• This was described by Caffey (1974) as the whiplash shaken infant syndrome [ 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)

Diagnosis3

• The diagnosis of child abuse is emotionally difficult for those involved, and an error in judgment either way can have a detrimental effect on the health and safety of the child. (medscape.com)
• The wide range of findings, which can mimic other disease processes or normal variants, implies that the definitive diagnosis of child abuse can be achieved only through interdisciplinary collaboration. (medscape.com)
• Several studies have reported that 30-80% of confirmed physical child abuse cases were missed on initial presentation and that many infants sustained additional injury because of the delay in diagnosis. (medscape.com)

Harm2

• a parent may present as nice or normal, and it may be difficult to image why a parent would harm her child, but it does happen. (medpagetoday.com)
• we should be focusing on the action -- the harm of the child. (medpagetoday.com)

Recognize2

• Recognize when a child might be abused. (medlineplus.gov)
• however, there is still a need of more information or specific training on how to recognize cases of violence against children and adolescents. (bvsalud.org)

Recommendations3

• Battered children and child abuse : highlights and recommendations of the CIOMS/WHO conference, Berne, Switzerland, December 1985. (who.int)
• The radiologic approach for a child who has potentially been abused has received considerable attention and recommendations according to decades of experience and rigorous scientific study. (medscape.com)
• Domestic violence and children: Analysis and recommendations. (nih.gov)

Harms1

• The expression "child abuse" involves any action or omission that harms either the children's well-being, physical and psychological integrity, or their liberty and the right to full development. (bvsalud.org)

Women6

• Where's the Social Web Revolution for Abused Women and Starving Children? (undispatch.com)
• It's worth noting that with all this triumphant talk about the Twitter revolution in Iran - especially when it's about a lesser-of-two-evils candidate - we can't summon a fraction of the energy and passion to save abused, raped and battered women across the globe. (undispatch.com)
• So why isn't this happening for oppressed and abused women or hungry and starving children, when their aggregate pain and suffering is far greater and the threat to them more severe than to the (brave) Iranian demonstrators? (undispatch.com)
• I'm not calling for less focus on Iran, but more, much more , on the mortal threat so many women and children face. (undispatch.com)
• Gloria Allred versus Whoopi Goldberg in a debate over battered women -- with Allred cleaning Goldberg's clock. (latimes.com)
• Perel explained the well-established fact that battered women often don't call the cops. (latimes.com)

Abusive1

• Counseling and support groups are available for children and for abusive parents who want to get help. (medlineplus.gov)

Involves2

• The system varies from state to state, but usually involves a family court or a court that handles child abuse cases. (medlineplus.gov)
• Child abuse involves grave and disturbing acts of violence that can have lasting physical and emotional consequences for children and their families. (medscape.com)

Lung1

• Typical CT findings for viral pneumonia therefore require confirmation by PCR tests (polymerase chain reaction tests), even if lung infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) show characteristic patterns, most frequently ground glass opacities (GGO) and a combination of GGO and air space consolidations. (bvsalud.org)

Patients2

• Doctors must be willing to consider child abuse in their differential diagnostic thinking -- which goes against how doctors want to think about the parents of patients. (medpagetoday.com)
• Patients: Children below age 1 year, selected from the National Patient Register ( n = 1150). (biomedcentral.com)

Health1

• In addition, the MADDSP data indicate that children with a postnatally acquired developmental disability were more likely to have multiple disabilities than other children identified with developmental disabilities, suggesting that postnatally acquired developmental disabilities have a greater impact on a child's health status than other developmental disabilities. (cdc.gov)

Severe3

• Tokue and associates presented the case of a 5-year-old girl in whom child abuse of severe dental caries was detected through computed tomography scanning when the child fell down the stairs and hit her head. (medscape.com)
• Therefore, physicians should be aware that severe dental caries may be a sign of child abuse. (medscape.com)
• A high diagnostic precision in the detection of child abuse is of utmost societal importance to keep both false positives and false negatives at a minimum [ 1 ], as the consequences can be severe in both cases. (biomedcentral.com)

Describe1

• We describe a child who died from edema caused by encephalitis probably induced or triggered by HMPV. (cdc.gov)

Fact2

• When I first formulated this maxim, I used to present and comment on how children learn and use of subjective representation in fact, actually, and probably) accounting for socioeconomic status, and gender. (umt.edu)
• and any other relevant fact which might give rise to an inference that the party charged knew or could have known that physical injury was in fact being inflicted on a child. (rflaw.net)

Psychological1

• One of the well accepted and yet evolving concepts having gained legitimacy across legal and psychological spheres, in countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States of America is the doctrine of the 'Battered Woman Syndrome' ( BWS ). (lawanthology.com)

Potentially1

• That is why in the real courtroom, after real medical child abuse was potentially perpetrated by the person sitting in front of them in the witness stand, it can be hard to fathom. (medpagetoday.com)

Violence3

• Bowen K. Child abuse and domestic violence in families of children seen for suspected sexual abuse. (nih.gov)
• I have used the word 'victim' for those experiencing this violence, while maintaining respect for what so many individuals do to move beyond victimhood, to build strengths and to help and support their children and others. (edu.au)
• Life as a victim of violence, particularly where there are children is difficult and complicated enough without being publicly attacked and having their motives questioned because they failed to immediately report to law enforcement. (latimes.com)

Consequences1

• The investigatory process and the criminal consequences of suspected cases of child sexual abuse contributed to a significant backlash toward CPS (Hechler 1988 ). (springer.com)

Call1

• You can also call Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453). (medlineplus.gov)

Emotional1

• Children may also have emotional problems. (medlineplus.gov)

Found1

• This means that a person with no prior convictions can be sentenced to up to 60 days of jail time if he is found guilty of misdemeanor child abuse. (rflaw.net)

Terms1

• Over the years, the preferred terms have changed from "factitious disorder by proxy (or imposed on another)" to "fabricated or induced illness by carers" to " medical child abuse . (medpagetoday.com)

Medical2

• Six more fictional thrillers trace the portrayals of medical child abuse in crime fiction, helping to open our collective eyes about this crime. (medpagetoday.com)
• Is she the loving mother she appears to be, or is she a perpetrator of medical child abuse? (medpagetoday.com)

Signs of child abuse1

• Learn about the signs of child abuse. (medlineplus.gov)

Public2

• With the surge in public awareness of child sexual abuse during the late 1970s and the 1980s, CPS lost its capacity to be as effective as its advocates and leaders had hoped. (springer.com)
• Children with these conditions are identified through a systematic review of records at public schools, hospitals, and other public or private programs for children with disabilities. (cdc.gov)

Services1

• Children and Family Services Act. (ilga.gov)