Claudia M Gold M.D.

About

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. My first book Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World through Your Child’s Eyes, was published in 2011. My new book The Silenced Child: From Labels, Medication and Quick-Fix Solutions to Listening, Growth and Lifelong Resilience will be released in May 2016. I attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago. I am a graduate of the UMass Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program, and the scholars program of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. I am on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Program.

Books by Claudia M Gold M.D.

Recent Posts

6 Essential School Components in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Are you worried about remote learning? Perhaps the coronavirus pandemic offers a unique opportunity to reclaim an ability fundamental to the success of our society.

Making Sense of George Floyd's Senseless Death

Will this period of protest across the country prove to be a necessary time of discord?

Can We Find Meaning in the COVID-19 Mental Health Crisis?

Will the universal experience of emotional suffering brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic eliminate the stigma of mental health problems once and for all?

Love in the Time of COVID-19

How can we preserve a sense of safety under the threat of the coronavirus pandemic?

Heartland: Poverty and Belonging in Rural America

How are poverty and child development intertwined? A book about economic inequality offers powerful insights.

New Postpartum Depression Drug Illuminates Health Inequity

Prevention programs for babies and parents give everyone a healthy start.

Where Does Listening Fit in the Medical Model of Disease?

Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences must be accompanied by time for non-judgmental listening in the context of trusting relationships.

A Child's Self Shattered at the Border

Beyond trauma, the young child incomprehensibly separated from his parents experiences an unimaginable anxiety captured by the term "annihilation of the self."

Why Is Antidepressant Withdrawal a Hot Button Issue?

Different models of emotional wellbeing, that do not divide us between "normal" and "diseased," may be in order.

Focus On What Parents Do Right, Not What We Do Wrong

Brazelton showed us a path to hope by listening with respect and empathy to every newborn and parent