Confronting chronic neglect : the education and training of health professionals on family violence / Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Institute of Medicine ; Felicia Cohn, Marla E. Salmon, and John D. Stobo, editors.

0309074312

Washington, DC : National Academy Press, c2002.

English

xvii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

RC569.5.F3 B63 2002

616.85/822

Introduction -- Defining the problem -- Current educational activities in the health professions -- Forces influencing health professionals' education -- Evaluation of training efforts -- Training beyond the state of the art -- Priorities for health professional training on family violence -- App. A: Accreditation requirements -- App. B: Policy statements of health professional organizations -- App. C: Mandatory reporting laws for family violence -- App. D: Mandatory education laws for family violence -- App. E: Existing curricula on family violence -- App. F: Summary of evaluation studies on training of health care professionals on intimate partner violence -- App. G: Summary of evalualtion studies on training health care professionals on child abuse and neglect -- App. H: Core competencies for family violence.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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