Munchausen syndrome by proxy: Clinical review and legal issues
作者:
Bernard Kahan,
Beatrice Crofts Yorker,
期刊:
Behavioral Sciences&the Law
(WILEY Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 9,
issue 1
页码: 73-83
ISSN:0735-3936
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370090109
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractWell‐established policies and procedures govern the identification, management, and treatment of most variations of child abuse. For many therapists, such cases have become “routine”. Munchausen syndrome by proxy is an under‐recognized form of child abuse in which a parent feigns or creates illness in a child specifically to have the child subjected to unnecessary diagnostic tests and treatments by medical practitioners. Variations range from false reports of fevers or allergies, to life‐threatening abuse, such as surreptitious poisonings or injections with toxic substances. This article reports a case example of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, provides a review of historical, diagnostic and management issues, and discusses legal issues relevant to detection of the perpetrator and protection of the chi
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