Malingering-by-proxy: Need for child protection and guidance for reporting
| Autor: | Melissa Dufrene, Michael D. Chafetz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Child abuse Malingering medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Child Welfare Poison control Suicide prevention Neglect Injury prevention Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Medicine Child Abuse Child Psychiatry media_common business.industry Mandatory Reporting medicine.disease Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Psychiatry and Mental health Child protection Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Munchausen syndrome business |
| Zdroj: | Child Abuse & Neglect. 38:1755-1765 |
| ISSN: | 0145-2134 |
| Popis: | The feigning of disabling illness for compensation at the direction or pressure by others, which is called malingering by proxy (MBP), has been the subject of several spirited articles. Chafetz and Prentkowski (2011) suggested that MBP has the potential for real harm to the child. In a poster at the AACN scientific session in 2011, Chafetz and Binder (2011) pursued a case of MBP that showed the child had clearly suffered and failed to progress in the 6 years that had passed since she was first evaluated as an 11 year old. In the present article, we identify three cases that compare and contrast effects of MBP, illustrating that child abuse and/or neglect can be a serious and reportable consequence of MBP behavior. To illustrate how MBP behavior can cause child abuse, we compare MBP behavior with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP), another condition of volitional noncredible behavior produced in a vulnerable person at the direction or pressure by others. Guidance criteria for reporting MBP as child abuse/neglect are introduced in this article. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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