Training Video

Multidisciplinary Response & Reporting

Mandatory Reporting

• Additional disclosures made during follow-up appointments should be documented appropriately with any follow-up required per mandatory reporting statutes.

Follow-Up Schedule

• All infants, children, and adolescents should be seen <2 weeks after discharge from hospital.

• After initial intake, infants may be seen frequently depending on age and concerns.

• After initial intake, children are seen quarterly (every 3-4 months) for the first year of treatment.

• After the first year, children are seen bi-annually (every 6 months) until 13 years of age.

• At 13 years of age, children are seen yearly (every 12 months) through adolescence.

• Children may be seen more frequently, by child or caregiver request, for new or worsening

• concerns related to previous abuse or torture.

• Child abuse specialists should provide care for all abuse or torture-related medical or psychiatric concerns but should not absorb the role of the primary care provider. Children should have access to both a primary care provider as well as a child abuse specialist.

Follow-Up Screening Recommendations: Medical

• Height and weight should be recorded at every follow-up visit and documented within the child’s growth chart from the initial intake.

• Photographic documentation, if the child consents, should be obtained and recorded at every follow-up visit; this may include full-body photographs and healing progression of injuries.

• Follow-Up Screening Recommendations: Psychiatric or Behavioral

• Screen all patients for suicidal ideation, plan, intent and means during follow up appointments.

• Screen all patients for non-suicidal self-injury during follow up appointments.

• Screen all patients for concerning behaviors or psychiatric symptoms at each follow-up.