Child in Mind

Promoting Health and Wellbeing of Children and Families Through Relationship Based Interventions

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Holding a Child in Mind

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Sam burst into the office, a two year old wild bundle of energy. Squealing with delight--or was it distress; it was hard to tell--he ran fr...
Friday, January 29, 2010

The Aggressive Child and the Elephant in the Room

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In the Tony award winning play God of Carnage two couples meet in an elegant living room for an ostensibly civilized conversation about the ...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Listening to a Mother

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I first met Rachel about three years ago when she brought her four year old adopted son, Sam, to see me in my pediatric practice because of...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Children, Antipsychotics and Psychoanalysis

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I fear our nation has lost its soul. We are drugging poor children into submission. Antipsychotics, powerful mind altering drugs with seriou...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Children Abandoned by the Health Insurance Industry

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After submitting an op ed about the health insurance industry published in today's Boston Globe I learned about another story of possi...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

A Pill to be Nice

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This past week, a mother in my pediatric practice (details, as always, have been changed to protect my patients privacy) asked if I would in...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Medication for ADHD: Over-reliance is the Problem

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At a panel discussion at the recent meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association Esther Fine, PhD suggested that children might bene...
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Claudia M. Gold, MD
I am a pediatrician and writer with a long-standing interest in addressing children’s mental health needs in a preventive model. I have practiced general and behavioral pediatrics for over 20 years, and currently specialize in early childhood mental health. I am the author of The Developmental Science of Early Childhood:Clinical Applications of Infant Mental Health Concepts from Infancy Through Adolescence" ( 2017)"The Silenced Child:From Labels, Medications, and Quick Fix Solutions to Listening, Growth, and Lifelong Resilience" ( 2016) "Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Tantrums, Defiance, and other Everyday Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child's Eyes"(2011) " I am on the faculty of UMass Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Program, William James College, the Brazelton Institute, and the Austen Riggs Center.
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