Child Abuse Reporting Guidelines: Ethical and Legal IssuesJohn Gavazzi
In 2013 and 2014 Pennsylvania enacted numerous changes to the Child Protective Services Law. This training is designed to review legal, ethical, risk management, and clinical decisions related to the changes in the law. The training will review the signs leading to the recognition of child abuse and also the reporting requirements for suspected child abuse in Pennsylvania. The topics to be covered include a description of child welfare services in Pennsylvania, important definitions related to the child abuse reporting law, responsibilities of mandated reporters, ways to recognize child abuse and other topics. We will review clinical scenarios that challenge ethical issues, legal requirements, risk management concerns, and clinical choices.
Child Abuse Reporting Guidelines: Ethical and Legal IssuesJohn Gavazzi
In 2013 and 2014 Pennsylvania enacted numerous changes to the Child Protective Services Law. This training is designed to review legal, ethical, risk management, and clinical decisions related to the changes in the law. The training will review the signs leading to the recognition of child abuse and also the reporting requirements for suspected child abuse in Pennsylvania. The topics to be covered include a description of child welfare services in Pennsylvania, important definitions related to the child abuse reporting law, responsibilities of mandated reporters, ways to recognize child abuse and other topics. We will review clinical scenarios that challenge ethical issues, legal requirements, risk management concerns, and clinical choices.
The guide is a comprehensive booklet provided to court supporters who assist survivors going through the process of a rape trial.
The Court Support Project was put in place by the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust in 2007 with the aim of supporting rape survivors so that they take their trials to completion.
Rape survivors often have no prior experience of the court system, are not sure of the processes that will be followed, of who the different role players in court are and, most importantly, what is expected of them when they are called upon to testify.
The court supporter shares all of this information not only with the rape survivor but also any family members that are there to support her or to testify as witnesses in the case.
The booklet forms part of a larger project that includes the training of community based volunteers as court supporters who are then based on site at regional courts.
Rape Crisis offers this service in collaboration with the National Prosecuting Authority and the Department of Social Development and as an adjunct to their three counselling services in Khayelitsha, Observatory and Athlone.
Through the Road to Justice Project Rape Crisis also recruits and trains counsellors based at two Thuthuzela Care Centres in Cape Town seeing in excess of 5 000 rape survivors per year through all of these services combined.
In addition Rape Crisis trains volunteers based at police stations around the province in how to support rape survivors coming to report rapes at their Community Service Centres.
The guide is a comprehensive booklet provided to court supporters who assist survivors going through the process of a rape trial.
The Court Support Project was put in place by the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust in 2007 with the aim of supporting rape survivors so that they take their trials to completion.
Rape survivors often have no prior experience of the court system, are not sure of the processes that will be followed, of who the different role players in court are and, most importantly, what is expected of them when they are called upon to testify.
The court supporter shares all of this information not only with the rape survivor but also any family members that are there to support her or to testify as witnesses in the case.
The booklet forms part of a larger project that includes the training of community based volunteers as court supporters who are then based on site at regional courts.
Rape Crisis offers this service in collaboration with the National Prosecuting Authority and the Department of Social Development and as an adjunct to their three counselling services in Khayelitsha, Observatory and Athlone.
Through the Road to Justice Project Rape Crisis also recruits and trains counsellors based at two Thuthuzela Care Centres in Cape Town seeing in excess of 5 000 rape survivors per year through all of these services combined.
In addition Rape Crisis trains volunteers based at police stations around the province in how to support rape survivors coming to report rapes at their Community Service Centres.
1. Forensic Medicine for Emergency Medicine นิติเวชสำหรับเวชศาสตร์ฉุกเฉิน FCAP, FASCP, FAFIP, ABAP, ABFP, ABFE, ABFM, วุฒิบัตรพยาธิวิทยา , อนุมัติบัตรนิติเวชวิทยา หน่วยนิติเวช ภาควิชาพยาธิวิทยา คณะแพทยศาสตร์ โรงพยาบาลรามาธิบดี รศ . นพ . ธำรง จิรจริยาเวช M.D., Ph.D.
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4. Manner of death-International ( พฤติการณ์การตาย ) : NATURAL : Death caused exclusively by disease. SUICIDE : Violent death caused by act of the decedent with the intent to kill himself. HOMICIDE : Violent death at the hand of another person . ACCIDENT : Death caused by violent means not due to an intentional or criminal act by another person. UNDETERMINED : is used when reasonable classification cannot be made.
7. Definition of rape by Oxford dictionary: The act of forcing a woman or girl to have sexual intercourse against her will
8. Definition of rape from Wikipedia: is a form of assault involving the non-consensual use of the sexual organs of another person’s body. The assailant can be of either sex, as can their target.
9. Men who rape women are often seen as the most common type of rapist but, in fact, men who rape other men are probably the most common type of male rapist in the US today.
10. In recent years, there have been an increasing number of female assailants being convicted or the rape of men. However, due to social, political and legal double standards, female rapists who rape other women are almost never caught or convicted.
11. In most countries the crime of rape is defined to occur when sexual intercourse take place without valid consent of one of the parties involved. It is frequently defined as penetration of the anus or the vagina by a penis. In some jurisdictions the penetration need not be by penis but can be by other parts (e.q. fingers) or by objects (e.q. bottle, artificial penis)
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13. Laboratory tests: ID of Semen Presumptive ID test: Acid Phosphatase (moist stain paper + sodium alphanaphthyphosphate and fast blue B dye>Purple within 30 seconds Florence; uses potassium triodide (A microcrystalline test for choline) Barberio; uses picric acid (microcrystalline test for spermine) Visualization under alternative light source ; semen will fluoresce Definitive ID test: P30 protein or PSA, unique to seminal plasma Sperm smear-microscopic examination
14. PSA or P30 protein: Immuno-enzymatic assay (ELISA) PSA test kit (Semiquantitative analyzing method by immunochromatographic principle)
15. Stains for microscopic examination of smear: H&E stain Papanicolas stain Nuclear Fast Red dyes Picroindigocarmine (PIC) Christmas tree stain (Brent amine Fast Blue B; carcinogenic)
16. Maximum time for sperm heads to be detected in living person: 7 days in the vaginal cavity 2-3 days in anus or rectum 24 hours in the mouth
18. Rape cases (Alive and/or autopsy cases) 1. Swab: vagina, oral, rectal and clothes, for ID studying of ; smear for sperm, acid phosphatase, P30 protein , DNA, culture 2. Examination: for evidence of trauma and infection or disease; for prophylaxis and treatment. 3. Blood studies for: VDRL, HIV, and DNA/blood group. 4. Comb and pull pubic hair.