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DailyNurse
One in three women and one in four men have experienced sexual violence involving physical contact during their lifetimes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This type of trauma necessitates urgent medical attention from trained sexual assault nurse examiners, yet several obstacles exist for many survivors seeking specialized care. Depending on where a patient lives, he or she may have to travel for hours to reach the closest available provider for a Sexual Assault Forensic Exam — a critical step when a patient decides to report an assault to the police.
“It’s very much a deterrent for rural [residents] to drive for any type of care,” said Pamela Biernacki, DNP, FNP-C, faculty member in the Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies.
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With updated research and citations, these evidence-based guidelines summarize knowledge, practice, and collaboration issues involved in providing comprehensive medical forensic examination of the patient who has experienced intimate partner violence or abuse.
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March 12, 2020
PREA - Demystifying the Medical Forensic Exam
This webinar will demystify the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination for corrections and community professionals who are responsible for protecting, advocating for, and assisting inmate, detainee, and resident victims and survivors.
March 17, 2020
Exam Adaptations for Survivors with Disabilities
This webinar will review the unique needs of survivors with disabilities and explore best practices for completing medical forensic exams to ensure a safe and accessible experience for all.
March 20, 2020
Service Animals and the Medical Forensic Exam
When a survivor of sexual assault presents to a healthcare facility for a medical forensic exam, and has a service animal - are you prepared to provide care to that patient? This webinar will; 1. Increase familiarity with survivors with disabilities and their use of service animals. 2. Analyze the legal rights of service animal handlers 3. Consider the complexities of working with survivors who have service animals 4. Outline some adaptations that might be helpful to employ in the exam process.
April 27, 2020
Support Animals and Service Animals are different?
Therapy and emotional support animals are different from service animals. There are differences in the roles they perform and the legal protections that are in place. How can you tell the difference? What impact can this have on the survivor? What policies should your program have in place to address both types of animals?
May 8, 2020
Interpreting Toxicology and Alcohol/Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault
Forensic Nurse Examiners (FNEs)/Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) receive general training on the basics of toxicology testing, but often lack understanding of the physiology of intoxication, the absorption, distribution, and excretion of alcohol and drugs from the body, the effects of proper education delivered to patients, and the associated costs to conduct toxicology testing. Join us for a 90-minute webinar to learn more!.
WIRED
Edward Ungvarsky doesn’t implicitly trust expert witnesses. As a criminal defense attorney, his clients are often evaluated by psychologists, who then present their findings in court. The results of the forensic psychology tests they administer can have a big effect on the outcome of a trial. They may determine whether someone should have custody of a child, or whether defendants can understand the legal system and aid in their own defense, a critical component of evaluating whether a person is competent to stand trial. Others determine whether a defendant was sane when they committed a crime, or whether they are eligible for the death penalty. So Ungvarsky, who practices in Virginia, Maryland, and DC, tries to make sure the psychologists use the right tools to get at those questions.
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Ohio State News
Researchers have known that kids who are at high risk of being mistreated at home – who live in poverty or have parents who use drugs or have mental health problems – are more likely to start smoking. Because abused and neglected children are often unsupervised, these teens have easy access to cigarettes and other substances that they use to deal with anxiety and other trauma-related symptoms.
A new study shows that physical abuse of children in high-risk homes, especially when they’re toddlers or teens, dramatically increases the odds that their adolescent experimentation with cigarettes will lead to a heavy smoking habit.
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University of Maryland School of Medicine via Medical Xpress
University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute for Genome Sciences researchers have created the first catalog of genes that comprise the community of microbes, which inhabit the human vagina. The catalog, called human vaginal non-redundant gene catalog, was recently released as a public resource that can be used by researchers to facilitate a more in-depth understanding of the role of vaginal microorganisms in women's health and to potentially develop future treatments for certain gynecologic conditions.
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Quartz
Over the past five years, scientific interest in psychedelics has boomed, with clinical trials on MDMA leading the way. Now the drug is on the cusp of becoming legal medicine. Early results testing MDMA combined with talk therapy as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder are promising, and the nonprofit behind the trials, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, expects its treatment to be approved by 2022.
Alongside the potential benefits, psychedelic therapy also carries a serious risk of sexual abuse. Patients in psychedelic therapy are intensely vulnerable. They are high, in a power imbalance with their therapist, and dealing with mental health issues. And MDMA, known colloquially as ecstasy and a “love drug,” is known to create feelings of sexual arousal and emotional intimacy.
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The Globe and Mail
Intimate partner violence is similarly prevalent in same-sex relationships as in heterosexual ones, a new study from the University of Guelph has found.
The research, which was published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, is the largest peer-reviewed study of its kind to look at the issue of intimate partner violence in same-sex couples in Canada.
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University of Huddersfield via Tech Xplore
Face identification algorithms have made huge strides in accuracy in recent years, with the latest algorithms outperforming humans in a recent comparison of human and machine performance. Algorithms can play an important role in the identification process, said Dr. Eilidh Noyes, a specialist in the field.
"We need to define what it means to be a face identification expert in this day and age. Is it a human? Is it an algorithm? Is it some combination of them both?"
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Lancaster University via Medical Xpress
Scientists behind a pioneering hand-identification research program are launching a new app and are calling on thousands of members of the public to help.
Led by forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black, the H-Unique program aims to discover whether our hands are truly unique by looking at anatomical differences caused by development, genetics, aging, the environment and even accidents.
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