NCJ Number
176828
Editor(s)
L K Hamberger,
S K Burge,
A V Graham,
A J Costa
Date Published
1997
Length
350 pages
Annotation
The articles in this volume examine violence intervention and prevention training for health care educators and providers.
Abstract
The book contains 17 essays: (1) On Opening Pandora's Box: Developing Violence Education Curricula for Health Care Educators and Providers; (2) Teaching Violence Prevention: A Critical Role for Medical Education; (3) Community Context for Teaching; (4) The Family Peace Project: A Model for Training Health Care Professionals to Identify, Treat and Prevent Partner Violence; (5) A School-Based, Primary Violence Prevention Program; (6) Preventing Firearm Violence; (7) Domestic Violence: Curricular Issues in Family Medicine; (8) Educational Methods in Teaching About Violence; (9) The Tarasoff Warning and the Duty to Protect: Implications for Family Medicine; (10) Curricular Models for Training Medical Students and Physicians to Detect and Address Child Abuse; (11) Nonviolent Childhood Discipline; (12) Child Sexual Abuse: Psychosocial Assessment in Primary Care; (13) Assessment of Adolescents Involved in Cults; (14) Recognition and Intervention for Elder Abuse; (15) Teaching the Care of Refugees and Survivors of Torture; (16) Risky Business: Teaching About Sexual Abuse by Physicians; and (17) Secondary Victimization Among Learners of Violence Issues. References, tables, figures, note, appendixes, index