Child maltreatment

Oltre la diagnosi: quale ruolo per il pediatra nei casi di maltrattamento?

Adavastro M, Ocello L, Lazzerotti A, Biondi A.

2024/9 — pag. 585-587 — DOI

Child abuse is a persistent and serious problem, even though children are regarded as individuals with full rights. Indeed, the protection of minors has been recognized and defined in its many forms since 1989 by the Convention on the Rights of the C...

Ecchimosi sospette

Brienza C, Imperatore A, Nunziata F.

2021/9 — pag. 593-594 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 3-month girl presenting with “bruising of unknown origin”. Clinical findings sustained the diagnosis of “maltreatment”....

I minori maltrattati: riconoscimento in Pronto Soccorso e valutazione degli esiti a distanza

Predonzani E, Germani C, Poropat F

2021/4 — pag. 129-129 — DOI

Child abuse and maltreatment are frequent and often underestimated phenomena. The present retrospective study shows the important role of the paediatriacians operating in the Emergency Units in intercepting and correctly addressing abused and maltrea...

Giù le mani dai bambini

E. Barbi

2020/2 — pag. 75-77

Il maltrattamento: parlarne per combatterlo

A. Smarrazzo

2018/4 — pag. 263-264

Pensare l’impensabile, scrutare quello che non si vuol vedere

E. Barbi

2016/4 — pag. 211-212

La sindrome di Münchausen by proxy

Z. Cannioto, F. Marchetti, E. Da Dalt, S. Brusa, A. Ventura

2009/5 — pag. 309-318

Münchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPs) is a form of child abuse in which a parent (especially the mother) fabricates or directly produces illness in a dependent child. It represents an insidious type of child abuse that occurs in a medical setting. An...

Impegnarsi sull’abuso

S. Pivetta, A. Macaluso, L. Lippolis, V. Peloso, M.G. Giacchin

1998/8 — pag. 537-539

Child abuse was recently recognized by the Italian Department of Social Affairs as a national priority and national guidelines have been issued to promote prevention, training and multiprofessional work at local level. The present proposal, deve...

Piano Sanitario Nazionale e possibilità di curare le diseguaglianze

F. Panizon

1998/6 — pag. 348