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Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensic. A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals
Nurse Education in Practice 13 (2013) e4
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Book review Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensic. A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals, M.E. Muscari, K.M. Brown. Springer Publishing Company (2010). ISBN: 9780826-124-17-3 DRS. Muscari and Brown have managed to articulate the key general principals of forensic paediatric/mental health care. Having specialised in the area of child, adolescent and family mental health and had the experience of assessing and treating many children and their families who presented with a multitude of emotional and behavioural difficulties that often masked forensic conditions, this book will provide undergraduate health care students with a quick
doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2012.05.011
reference to the many complex cases that present to both paediatric and children’s mental health services. This text book covers the subjects of children as victims, children as offenders, unnatural deaths in a manner that is easy to read and digest. I would recommend this text to the undergraduate nursing programme as essential reading material and as recommended reading for the MSc in Mental Health (Child, Adolescent and Family Strand). Caitriona Nic Philibin School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland E-mail address: [email protected]
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Nurse Education in Practice journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/nepr
Book review Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensic. A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals, M.E. Muscari, K.M. Brown. Springer Publishing Company (2010). ISBN: 9780826-124-17-3 DRS. Muscari and Brown have managed to articulate the key general principals of forensic paediatric/mental health care. Having specialised in the area of child, adolescent and family mental health and had the experience of assessing and treating many children and their families who presented with a multitude of emotional and behavioural difficulties that often masked forensic conditions, this book will provide undergraduate health care students with a quick
doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2012.05.011
reference to the many complex cases that present to both paediatric and children’s mental health services. This text book covers the subjects of children as victims, children as offenders, unnatural deaths in a manner that is easy to read and digest. I would recommend this text to the undergraduate nursing programme as essential reading material and as recommended reading for the MSc in Mental Health (Child, Adolescent and Family Strand). Caitriona Nic Philibin School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland E-mail address: [email protected]