\n<\/strong>To help participants to:
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>Understand the complex terminology applied in cases of medical child abuse (MCA), and the paucity of laws and clinical guidelines related to the management of these cases.
\n\u2022\u00a0 Develop an understanding of what MCA cases look like clinically, and to identify and understand the behaviour indicators of MCA in clinical and non-clinical settings.
\n\u2022\u00a0 Participants understand the multiple pathways that may lead to medical child abuse.
\n\u2022\u00a0 Introduce participants to a template for understanding the roles played by various professionals, from the development of suspicions through the adjudication of legal matters, as these professionals work to protect victims of MCA.
\n\u2022\u00a0 Help clinician participants understand simple steps that can be taken to promote prevention and early detection of medical child abuse.<\/p>\n
Description:
\n<\/b>Medical Child Abuse<\/b> goes by many clinical names but is formerly best known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 In the classic form, Medical Child Abuse involves a parent or other caregiver who inflicts injury or induces illness in a child, then deceives the treating physician and health care staff with fictitious or exaggerated information, and perpetrates the scenario for months or years. This can cause overly aggressive medical evaluations and interventions. An outcome is that the treating physician and healthcare staff have played an unintended role. Failure to recognize Medical Child Abuse is common because the condition is not recognized or is missed, and thus not included in the differential diagnosis of challenging clinical problems. Once diagnosed, the consequences can be enormous, affecting not only the child, but also the various health care, child welfare, human resource staff and legal community. Join Dr. James <\/b>Hamilton, PhD<\/b>, an expert in Medical Child Abuse <\/b>for this important webinar<\/p>\n
Who Should Attend?:
\n<\/b>\u2022 \u00a0 Pediatricians, Pediatric Nurses, Pediatric Residents, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
\n\u2022\u00a0 Allied Pediatric Staff: Social workers, Child Life Specialists, Pediatric Rehabilitation Staff
\n\u2022\u00a0 Primary Care, Family Health Care Teams, Home & Community Health Nurses
\n\u2022\u00a0 Criminal Lawyers, Prosecutors, Child Welfare Organization Professionals, Human Resources Staff
\n\u2022\u00a0 Staff in Pediatric and Adult Mental Health Settings; Psychologists, Counsellors<\/p>\n
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James Hamilton PhD
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\nDr. James C. Hamilton <\/b>is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Alabama, and a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of Alabama. He has participated as a forensic evaluator in over 30 cases of alleged medical child abuse, and is co-chair of the Munchausen by Proxy Committee of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). He has published numerous articles and chapters on the topic of excessive and factitious illness behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n120 minutes including a Q&A<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>James Hamilton PhD<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 A certificate of completion
\n\u2022 The on-demand recording to watch at your convenience, for at least one year
\n\u2022 A handout in PDF format for viewing or self-printing<\/p>\n
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