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The Silenced Child

Claudia M. Gold

Are children and adolescents being silenced and their growth stunted in the age of quick diagnoses and overmedication? In The Silenced Child , Dr. Claudia Gold shows the tremendous power of listening in parent/child and doctor/patient relationships. Through vivid stories, perceptive insights, and new research, she shows the way children grow from these relationships and how being heard actually changes their brains. She helps both parents and caregivers make the time and space for listening.Praise for Keeping Your Child in Mind :"A very useful, thoughtful book. It lays out the best thinking of our time to help parents make decisions about nurturing their child's development.", T. Berry Brazelton, MD, professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus Harvard Medical School>

Claudia M. Gold

Ed Tronick PhD is a developmental and clinical psychologist and the co-founder of the Child Development Unit at Boston Children's hospital and the Touchpoints Program with T. Berry Brazelton. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston a Research Associate in Newborn Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston which has trained more than 500 interdisciplinary practitioners from all over the world. He has co-authored and authored five books and more than 450 scientific papers on infant neuro-behavior social-emotional development cross-cultural parenting practices and the Still-Face paradigm which he developed.

He has been featured by Nova 60 Minutes the New York Times and the Boston Globe among others and speaks to audiences world-wide.

Claudia M. Gold MD is a pediatrician and writer with a long-standing interest in addressing children's mental health needs in a preventive model. She practiced general and behavioral pediatrics for over 20 years and currently specializes in infant-parent mental health. She is the author of Keeping Your Child in Mind The Silenced Child and The Developmental Science of Early Childhood. She writes regularly for Psychology Today and speaks frequently to a wide range of audiences. She is on the faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Brazelton Institute at Boston Children's Hospital.