Tag: mandated reporting
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She takes the elevator instead of the stairs
Read more: She takes the elevator instead of the stairsNadia was six weeks postpartum when you first saw her. Thirty-one, first baby, a daughter, referred by her OB after a routine visit. No psychiatric history. Her husband came along and waited outside. She told you she wasn’t sleeping — not in the fragmented way every new parent describes, but the kind where the baby…
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Know the Signs: Types and Indicators of Child Abuse
Read more: Know the Signs: Types and Indicators of Child AbuseWhen you walk into the community center that Thursday morning, you immediately notice Keisha sitting alone in the corner. She’s twelve—usually lively and full of conversation—but today she seems smaller somehow. As you get closer, you see what looks like a healing cut on her lip and faint scratches on her forearms. “What happened, Keisha?”…