{"id":4667,"date":"2012-04-04T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/pediatricians-at-miller-children-s-hospital-long-beach-shine-light-on-child-abuse\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:02:00","slug":"pediatricians-at-miller-children-s-hospital-long-beach-shine-light-on-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/pediatricians-at-miller-children-s-hospital-long-beach-shine-light-on-child-abuse","title":{"rendered":"Pediatricians at Miller Children\u2019s Hospital Long Beach Shine Light on Child Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:00am | <\/strong>Research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proven that a large percentage of American adults who suffer from challenging health, emotional and social issues today, had negative experiences in childhood. These negative experiences impact their ability to work, create positive relationships and thrive in other areas of life in adulthood. <\/p>\n

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and with the long-term impact of positive parenting in mind, Miller Children\u2019s Hospital Long Beach is commemorating the awareness month by reinforcing the message that, early recognition, prevention and treatment of child abuse is crucial in minimizing its long term effects. This month and throughout the year, Miller Children\u2019s encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making the City of Long Beach and the surrounding communities a better place for children and families. <\/p>\n


\u201cBeing able to recognize child abuse and not miss the signs is crucial,\u201d says Sandra Murray, M.D., FAAP, Medical Director, Child Abuse and Protection Team, Miller Children\u2019s. \u201dIf you don\u2019t recognize abuse and the child goes back to the same environment, they are at a greater risk of being reinjured or even killed.\u201d <\/p>\n

National Child Abuse Prevention Month is a time to acknowledge the important role that communities and medical professionals play in protecting children\u2019s well-being. Identifying early signs of child abuse and focusing on ways to build and promote the protective factors, in every interaction with children and families, is what Miler Children\u2019s hopes to accomplish. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy mission is to educate parents on things to do when they get frustrated so they do not harm their kids,\u201d says Dr. Murray. \u201cI also want to raise awareness to physicians and our care teams of the signs they can look for, such as injuries that are subtle, which can be easily overlooked. As a major regional health care provider, it is our responsibility to prevent child abuse from escalating by intervening early and acting on the subtle signs.\u201d <\/p>\n

Child abuse can be prevented. Miller Children\u2019s promotes nurturing parent‐child interactions and fostering early learning opportunities to support child development and healthy family relationships ‐ the very actions that help to prevent child abuse and neglect. By ensuring that parents have the knowledge, skills and resources they need to care for their children, we can help promote children\u2019s social and emotional well-being and prevent child maltreatment within families and communities. <\/p>\n

Miller Children\u2019s will host a special, child abuse presentation, \u201cIt\u2019s Only a Bruise, Sentinel Injuries in Child Abuse,\u201d on Friday, April 6 at 8 a.m. to raise awareness around child abuse in our communities. Parents, community members and medical professionals are invited to attend. The keynote speaker is Sandra Murray, M.D., FAAP, medical director, Child Abuse and Protection Team, Miller Children\u2019s. Dr. Murray will discuss how to recognize the problems of both over or under diagnosis of child abuse, how to assess risk factors for child abuse, to raise awareness and better serve children and families. Call (562) 933-0107 to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proven that a large percentage of American adults who suffer from challenging health, emotional and social issues today, had negative experiences in childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}