Product DescriptionPurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Münchausen Syndrome, Feigned Madness, Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Münchausen by Internet, Factitious Disorder, David Southall, Beverley Allitt, Ganser Syndrome, Wendi Scott, Julie Gregory, Wendy Scott. Excerpt: Beverley Gail Allitt Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968), dubbed the Angel of Death , is an English serial killer who murdered four children and injured five others while working as a State Enrolled Nurse (SEN), on the children’s ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital , Lincolnshire . Her main method of murder was to inject the child with potassium chloride (to cause cardiac arrest ), or with insulin (to induce lethal hypoglycemia ). She was sentenced to life imprisonment at her trial at Nottingham Crown Court in 1993 and is currently being held at Rampton Secure Hospital . The victims Trial and imprisonment Allitt had attacked 13 children in the space of 15 days before she was finally arrested. It was only following the death of Claire Peck that medical staff became suspicious of the number of cardiac arrests on the children’s ward and police were called in. It was found that Allitt was the only nurse on duty for all the attacks on the children and she also had access to the drugs. Four of Allitt’s victims had died. She was charged with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm in November 1991. On Friday 28 May 1993 she was found guilty on each charge and sentenced to 13 concurren…
Factitious Disorders: Münchausen Syndrome, Feigned Madness, Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Münchausen by Internet, Factitious Disorder
Product DescriptionThis digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by International Medical News Group on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 506 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Mother With Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Seeks Unneeded Mental Health Care.Author: Mary Ann MoonPublication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)Date: October 1, 2001Publisher: International Medical News GroupVolume: 29 Issue: 10 Page: 28Distributed by Thomson Gale
Mother With Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Seeks Unneeded Mental Health Care.: An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment
Product DescriptionThe authors make the case that the term Munchausen syndrome by proxy should be retired permanently and replaced with a commonsense appreciation that children can be abused by their parents in the medical environment. Physicians who find themselves providing unnecessary and harmful medical care can see the abuse for what it is, another way parents can harm children.
The book offers the first detailed and comprehensive description of treatment for this form of child maltreatment.
At last. A clear, logical, and immensely practical book, showing that this is not a syndrome at all, but rather another important form of child abuse…and one which is completely preventable.
Kim Oates, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Sydney, Australia
A fantastic book that will revolutionize, in a much needed way, the way we think about this disorder.
Alex V. Levin, MD, MHSc, FAAP, FAAO, FRCSC, Professor, Departments of Paediatrics, Genetics, and Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Director, Postgraduate Bioethics Education University of Toronto
Drs Roesler and Jenny have finally mapped the terrain of child abuse showing where medical child abuse stands in the overall landscape.
Thomas L. Dwyer, Director of Foster Care, Department of Children and Families, State of Connecticut
Medical Child Abuse: Beyond Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Product DescriptionThe diagnosis of Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome (MBPS) conjures up an eerie spectacle: a disturbed mother, while ostensibly seeking medical assistance, secretly induces physical illnesses in her helpless child in order to receive attention from a caring, even loving, physician. This putative “syndrome,” which horrifically combines the elusiveness of the classic Munchausen Syndrome patient seeking care for nonexistent illness with the evils of child abuse, has been the subject of numerous books, television dramas, FBI warnings, and recent court cases. Yet, despite the widespread conviction among legal and psychiatric experts that Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome actually exists, the “syndrome” is specious, the evidence sustaining it insubstantial and logically flawed. This is the startling conclusion of Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis? Beginning with a thorough review of the original literature on Munchausen patients, authors David Allison and Mark Roberts demonstrate in detail how, from the outset, psychiatric descriptions of this alleged condition have been thoroughly circular. Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis? is essential reading for feminist scholars and clinicians, for social historians, sociologists, and jurists, indeed for all who care about the plight of disadvantaged mothers and the rights of medical patients in our society.
Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis? Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
Product DescriptionMunchausen by Proxy Syndrome (MBPS), a form of child abuse in which a primary carer – usually a mother – fabricates and//or induces illness in a child, is one of the least understood forms of child abuse and mental illness. Examining the current knowledge about the manifestations and consequences of this perplexing behaviour, this book assists all professionals working with chronically ill children in identifying and intervening with this bizarre and often deadly form of abuse.
Drawing from their firsthand experience with the complexities of such cases, the editors and contributors address critical issues of not only identification and assessment but also long-term psychotherapy. Therapy with the mother//perpetrator has traditionally been markedly unsuccessful, but this book provides a much-needed framework for the successful treatment of acknowledged perpetrators. Emphasizing the important role of efficient multidisciplinary cooperation in handling MBPS cases, Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome also features perspectives from experts in the fields of medicine, child protection, education, social work, hospital administration and law.
Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome demystifies the mother//perpetrator’s deception and gives professionals the knowledge to save children from induced life-threatening illnesses and consequent medical procedures. Professionals, academics, researchers, and students in a variety of fields, including clinical and counselling psychology, social work, nursing//health sciences, criminal justice, and law, will need the information presented in this book to help stop this form of abuse.
Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: Misunderstood Child Abuse
Product DescriptionIt is essential for anyone involved in the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases to be aware of the often hidden and subtle warning signs of Munchausen by Proxy. Munchausen syndrome, classified as a mental illness, occurs when a person inflicts or fabricates illness upon themselves, often as an attention-getting device. Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) is an even more insidious disorder in that such illness or injury is inflicted upon a victim-usually a child. Awareness can stop the vicious cycle of abusePractical Aspects of Munchausen by Proxy and Munchausen Syndrome Investigation is the most comprehensive law enforcement handbook written on MBP, which is now considered an index factor in child abuse investigations and as a suspicion factor in the deaths of young children. This book offers detailed insight into the dynamics of MBP abuse and the Munchausen offender. The text chronicles real cases of MBP and Munchausen in the dominion of law enforcement and relates them to general principles of criminal investigations. With this practical guide, readers will be able to readily identify Munchausen-related behavior, apply that recognition in all types of investigations, improve the ability to detect covert or falsified crimes, have the basic knowledge to effectively combat MBP child victimization, or to successfully proscecute MBP cases.
Practical Aspects of Munchausen by Proxy and Munchausen Syndrome Investigation
Product DescriptionThis digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 650 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Flags for Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.(Statistical Data Included)Author: Betsy BatesPublication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)Date: April 1, 2000Publisher: International Medical News GroupVolume: 30 Issue: 7 Page: 57Article Type: Statistical Data IncludedDistributed by Thomson Gale
Flags for Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.: An article from: Family Practice News
Product DescriptionMunchausen Syndrome by Proxy is the syndrome that causes parents and care workers to harm their children to get attention. Many families are separated after its diagnosis. But has the fertile imagination of social workers and the public turned MSBP into the “trendy” disorder of our time? McGill traces the 25-year history of the disorder and examines high profile cases from six countries. He produces compelling stories from parents and care workers and asks what can be done to protect parents from being wrongly accused.
Do No Harm?: Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy
Product DescriptionChildren’s Hospital Oakland, California. Text for psychiatrists on parents, usually mothers, who fabricate illness in their children or deliberately make the child ill – Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome (MBPS). Includes case studies.
Hurting for Love: Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
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