Child fatality review quick reference : for health care, social services, and law enforcement professionals

An essential and convenient guide for every member of your review team the Child Fatality Review Quick Reference is an ideal field guide completely devoted to establishing, maintaining, and improving child fatality review teams (CFRTs). With full-color clinical photos and various causes and manners of death and sections devoted to review procedures and team member roles, this pocket-sized edition is required reading for anyone involved in the child fatality review process. Photos illustrate abusive and accidental forms of death, including neglect, SUDS, suicide, burns, drowning, genetic diseases, and natural causes. This text is a vital tool for all members of a CFRT, and it can serve as a guide for anyone trying to form a new team. 400 pages, 150 images, 77 contributors Child Fatality Review Quick Reference features the best practices in the investigation of child death. It is a valuable resource both for active members of child fatality review teams (CFRTs) and for any professionals who collaborate with CFRTs in the process of child death review. This detailed reference is exhaustive in scope yet conveniently sized to suit the needs of frontline practitioners working in crime scenes, in the courtroom, or in the medical setting. This reference describes in full the respective roles and responsibilities of CFRT members, from coroners and medical examiners, to law enforcement and district prosecutors, as well as a variety lay investigators, community representatives, and child welfare personnel. CFRT professionals across disciplines will all benefit from this in-depth guide to investigative protocols for all manner of abusive and negligent, accidental, and natural death in children. Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Fatality Review Teams -- Chapter 2: Fatality Review Procedures -- Chapter 3: Forensics -- Chapter 4: Law Enforcement, Prosecutors, CPS, and Mental Health Professionals -- Chapter 5: Social and Environmental Issues -- Chapter 6: Homicide -- Chapter 7: Perinatal Deaths -- Chapter 8: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome -- Chapter 9: Physical Abuse -- Chapter 10: Neglect and Safety Issues -- Chapter 11: Nonabusive injuries -- Chapter 12: Suicide -- Chapter 13: Burns -- Chapter 14: Drownings -- Chapter 15: Medical Conditions -- Chapter 16: Pediatric Ophthalmology -- Index "Child Fatality Review Quick Reference condenses into accessible bulleted points the most important information on establishing, maintaining, and improving Child Fatality Review teams"--Provided by publisher.