Child in Mind

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

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Is ADHD a real disorder? Part 2

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A number of people commented that my previous post seemed unfinished in that I did not offer an alternative approach. This is a valid point...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Is ADHD a real disorder?

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I have deliberately given this post a provocative title to offer a counter weight to the outpouring of news covering the California study  d...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Hope for mothers and babies at Boston's State House

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Attending a meeting of Representative Ellen Story's   Postpartum Depression Commission is always an uplifting experience. Talented, mot...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Towards a new (or return to an old) paradigm of finding meaning

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I am fortunate that my father is my greatest fan, although, perhaps because his original language was German, it has taken me years of patie...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Adam Lanza and Preventive Mental Health Care

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In keeping with my wish for continued meaningful dialogue in the wake of last week’s horrific events, I would like to expand upon what I...
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Gun control and preventive mental health care to honor the lost children of Newtown

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For the families who lost children, their world as they knew it has effectively ended. Yet somehow the sun rises again and the next day is h...
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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Where is the media coverage of the DSM V vote?

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Last Sunday I awoke to a news story in our local paper, The Berkshire Eagle , about the vote by the American Psychiatric Association the pre...
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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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