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Screening may miss one-quarter of child sexual abuse cases
UC Riverside News
Up to one-quarter of people who suffer child sexual abuse might be passed over for treatment because of current screening procedures, according to UC Riverside psychology researchers.
Their just-published study also finds that whether survivors of child sexual abuse identify themselves as abuse survivors influences the outcomes they experience in young adulthood.
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.FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES
Pediatric Strangulation Case Review and Assessment Course (Abridged Version)
This abridged version of the IAFN Pediatric Strangulation Case Review and Assessment course increases your knowledge related to physical and mental health consequences of strangulation. In addition, you will obtain knowledge of performing a thorough pediatric strangulation assessment using strangulation-specific assessment tools and management of pediatric strangulation through participation in case review. Learn More.
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SAFEta.org Webinars
Did you know there are more than 50 FREE webinars available on SAFEta.org? Topics include seeing patient in various settings, education on providing care for transgender patients, and patients of human trafficking. There are also webinars that address topics such as suspect exams, SART case reviews, billing and coding and MUCH more. Learn More.
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Offer Nursing CE at Your Next Event
IAFN is committed to educational and professional development activities that support evidence-based, high-quality care of forensic patients. Offer CE for your activity through IAFN's affordable approvership program. Members receive additional discounts! Learn More.
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Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows
Associated Press
As more than 90,000 of the nation’s long-term care residents have died in a pandemic that has pushed staffs to the limit, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of death separate from the virus has quietly claimed tens of thousands more, often because overburdened workers haven’t been able to give them the care they need.
Nursing home watchdogs are being flooded with reports of residents kept in soiled diapers so long their skin peeled off, left with bedsores that cut to the bone, and allowed to wither away in starvation or thirst.
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FBI: Hate crime murders hit record high in 2019
Axios
The number of hate crime murders hit a record high in 2019, while overall hate crime incidents rose by nearly three percent last year, according to the FBI's annual hate crime report, published on Nov. 16. The data coincides with a growing number of white nationalist hate groups, which rose by 55 percent between 2017 and 2019, per the Southern Poverty Law Center watchdog group.
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Solitary confinement by any other name is still torture
The Conversation via PhysOrg
In October 2020, criminologists Anthony Doob and Jane Sprott released a report on Correctional Services Canada's use of structured intervention units. SIUs were intended to replace the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons but are a catastrophic failure, especially for imprisoned people with mental illness.
Advocates, including legal scholar Lisa Kerr and Sen. Kim Pate, have criticized the introduction of SIUs as a mere rebranding of longstanding and harmful isolation practices in federal prisons.
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Suicidal risk during pregnancy, after childbirth on the rise
University of Michigan via Medical Xpress
Pregnancy and the period after delivering a baby can be one of the riskiest times for depressive symptoms, with suicide among the leading causes of death among new moms.
And now a new study suggests that suicide "near misses" during pregnancy and after childbirth are increasing.
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Adolescent girls at high risk of violence in humanitarian settings
Washington University in St. Louis via Medical Xpress
While some interventions exist, more needs to be done to ensure that global efforts to end gender-based violence include a focus on adolescent girls, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, published Nov. 20 in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
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Survey reveals impact of suicide on family and friends
The University of Manchester
A study published Nov. 18 reveals over a third of those bereaved by suicide considered taking their own life, highlighting their acute need for more support.
The team, led by Dr Sharon McDonnell at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with the Support After Suicide Partnership, conducted the largest ever survey on the impact of suicide in the UK, with over 7,150 people sharing their experiences.
The survey was carried out from September 2017 to August 2018.
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New tool to combat terrorism
Science Magazine
Forensic science experts at Flinders University are refining an innovative counter-terrorism technique that checks for environmental DNA in the dust on clothing, baggage, shoes or even a passport.
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