Child Maltreatment Assessment Volume 2 serves to help readers identify and interpret sexual, emotional, and psychological forms of abuse in children by providing chapters on the topics of sexual abuse, neglect and abandonment, torture, and more.
Debra Esernio-Jenssen, MD is currently working at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children's Hospital in the field of Child Protective Medicine. In 2009 she was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Child Abuse Pediatrics. From 1998 to April 2010, she was the Director of the Child Protection Center at Schneider Children's Hospital and the Chair of the Child Protection Consultation Team at Long Island Jewish Hospital in New Hyde Park, New York. Debra is recognized both nationally and internationally for her work in child abuse and child abuse prevention.