Pediatric interview assessment of child abuse. Challenges and opportunities.
The assessment of child abuse is a professionally and personally challenging task. Here as elsewhere in medicine success often is linked with the informed intelligence, mature attitude, and professional demeanor of the clinician. If one can maintain a thoughtful and skeptical approach to the data; display warmth, calm, and respect to everyone involved in the case; and express one's views with care and parsimony, good information will be forthcoming and, it is hoped, excellent management will follow.
Family Development Program, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
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D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D009679:Nuclear Family