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Child Fatality Review
Interdisciplinary Guide and Photographic Reference

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Authors

Randell Alexander, MD, PhD, FAAP

Child Fatality Review:
(978-1-878060-58-7) $175.00

Child Fatality Review is the first and only text available that is devoted to the child fatality review process. It is designed to serve CFR team members, potential team members, and interested nonmembers as the only text they will need on death review. The title details common types of child fatalities for professionals to use as a reference, including sections devoted to review procedures, the roles of each team member, and full-color photographs of various causes and manners of death (ISBN 978-1-878060-58-7).

Case studies illustrate abusive and accidental forms of death, including neglect, SIDS, suicide, burning, drowning, genetic diseases, natural causes, and shaken baby syndrome. This text is a vital tool for all members of a child fatality review team, and it can serve as a guide for anyone trying to form a CFRT.

While this illustrated text is an ideal tool for anyone who works on or with a child fatality review team, it is also a reference asset to any medical library. In the arena of education, this text is a valuable teaching tool in university social-work classes or law enforcement teaching facilities. Anyone potentially involved with a child fatality review team should not miss out on this one-of-a-kind resource.

Lead Author(s)

Randell Alexander, MD, PhD, FAAP

Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America.

Dr. Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, and two regional child death review committees. All subjects related to child abuse are of interest to him, but his particular areas of interest are shaken baby syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, prevention, and child death review. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.

Product Details

Hardbound with slipcase
832 pages, 643 images
73 contributors
Audience: Law Enforcement, Attorneys, Judges, Physicians, ER Personnel, Pediatricians, EMTs, Nurses, Medical Examiners, Coroners, Clinical Researchers, Social Service Personnel, Mental Health Professionals, Domestic Violence Experts, Vital Statistics Personnel, Child Advocates, Child Abuse Prevention Professionals, Child Protective Services Members, Educators
Publication date: 2007
ISBN-10: 1-878060-58-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-878060-58-7

Table of Contents >> Read sample excerpts

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1. Overview
2. Epidemiology of Child Death
3. The homicides of Children and Youth
4. Homicides: Case Studies
5. Perinatal Mortality Review: The Iowa Model
6. Perinatal Deaths: Case Studies
7. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Pathologist's Perspective
8. Sudden Unexplained Infant Death: Case Studies
9. Physical Abuse
10. Physical Abuse: Case Studies
11. Fatal Child Neglect
12. Neglect: Case Studies
13. Nonabusive Injuries
14. Nonabusive Injuries: Case Studies
15. Lightning and Lightning Injuries
16. Examining Youth Suicides: The Suicide Review Team
17. Suicides: Case Studies
18. Burn Injuries in Child Fatality Review
19. Burn Injuries: Case Studies
20. Drowning in Child Fatality Review
21. Drowning: Case Studies
22. Childhood Cancers and Blood Disorders
23. Congenital Defects and Genetic Disorders
24. Child Fatality Due to Infectious Diseases
25. International Child Fatality Review Teams: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom
26. Effective Models of Review that Work to Prevent Child Deaths
27. Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction in Indian Country
28. Military Approaches to Child Fatality Review and Child Death Investigation
29. Military Approaches: Case Studies
30: Coming of Age: Child Death Review in America
31. Child Death Review Teams: Examples and Overview
32. Issues, Problems, and Considerations of Child Fatality Review
33. The Role of Child Abuse Pediatricians
34. The Medicolegal Death Investigator
35. The Role of Coroners
36. Forensic Pathology in the United States and United Kingdom
37. Forensic Autopsy Procedure
38. Imaging of Childhood Fatality Caused by Child Abuse
39. Pediatric Ophthalmology
40. Law Enforcement Investigation of Infant and Child Fatalities
41. Child Death Specialist: Case Studies
42. The Role of Law Enforcement
43. The Role of the Prosecutors
44. The Role of Child Protection
45. The Role of Mental Health Professionals
46. Intimate Partner Violence
47. The Grieving Process and Family Support
48. Preventing Future Deaths Through Effective Prevention Recommendations and Actions
49. Safety in Numbers: Protection of Children from Death and Serious Injuries by Licensed Childcare Centers
50. Child Death Review Team Recommendations
51. Vision for the Future