Treating childhood abuse | Nursing homework help

To Prepare for this Discussion:

· Read the Learning Resources concerning treating childhood abuse ( Below)

· Read the Child Abuse Case Study in the Learning Resources.

Post:

· What strategies would you employ to assess the patient for abuse? Explain why you selected these strategies.

· How might exposure to the media and/or social media affect the patient?

· What type of mandatory reporting (if any) is required in this case? Why?

Learning Resources ( Need 3 references).

Document: Childhood Abuse Case Study (PDF)

Thapar, A., Pine, D. S., Leckman, J. F., Scott, S., Snowling, M. J., & Taylor, E. A. (2015). Rutter’s child and adolescent psychiatry (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. 

• Chapter 50, “Provision of Intensive Treatment:      Intensive Outreach, Day Units, and In-Patient Units” (pp. 648–664)
• Chapter 58, “Disorders of Attachment and      Social Engagement Related to Deprivation” (pp. 795–805)
• Chapter 59, “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”      (pp. 806–821)
• Chapter 64, “Suicidal Behavior and Self-Harm”      (pp. 893–912)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

• “Trauma- and      Stressor-related Disorders”

American Psychiatric Nurses Association. (2017). Childhood and adolescent trauma. Retrieved from http://www.apna.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=4545

Pfefferbaum, B., & Shaw, J. A. (2013). Practice parameter on disaster preparedness. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(11), 1224–1238. Retrieved from http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(13)00550-9/pdf 

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

• Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry” (pp. 1216–1226)

Stahl, S. M. (2014). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.