Table of Contents

Medical child abuse and other forms of child maltreatment; The spectrum of medical child abuse; Role of the pediatrician in identifying medical child abuse; Treatment strategies; Role of the medical community in stopping medical child abuse; When to go to court; How the child protection community can incorporate medical abuse into their work.

About the Author

Dr Thomas A. Roesler, MD, is associate professor of child and family psychiatry at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He is codirector of the Hasbro Children's Partial Hospital Program, a day treatment program for children with combined physical and emotional illness. Dr Carole Jenny, MD, MBA, FAAP, is professor of pediatrics, also at Brown University, director of the ChildSafe child protection program at Hasbro Children's Hospital, and chair of the Committee on Child Abuse of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has won numerous awards for her work in child abuse pediatrics.