Claudia M. Gold, MD is a paediatrician and writer who practiced paediatrics for 20 years and now specializes in early relational health. She has over three decades of clinical experience in a wide variety of communities and currently works in a volunteer clinic for uninsured families and as a consultant to a program for pregnant and parenting women struggling with substance use. She was on the faculty of the UMass fellowship in Early Relational Health for ten years.<\/p>\n
Dr. Gold has extensive experience with families hard hit by the opioid crisis in her community in rural Western Massachusetts, and currently works as a clinician with Volunteers in Medicine, Berkshires serving a primarily immigrant population.<\/p>\n
Dr. Gold\u2019s most recent book\u00a0is Getting to Know You: Lessons in Early Relational Health from Infants and Caregivers ( Teachers College Press Spring 2025) She co-authored\u00a0 The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and downs of Relationships are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience and Trust\u00a0with infant researcher and psychologist Ed Tronick (Little, Brown Spark 2020) Her other books include\u00a0The Developmental Science of Early Childhood\u00a0(2017),\u00a0The Silenced Child\u00a0(2016),\u00a0and\u00a0Keeping Your Child in Mind\u00a0(2011) Dr. Gold speaks frequently to a broad variety of audiences including both parents and professionals in the United States and around the world.\u00a0 She received her BA from the University of Chicago and MD from U of C Pritzker School of Medicine.<\/p>[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pexels-amina-filkins-5427247-scaled.jpg” title_text=”pexels-amina-filkins-5427247″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_radii=”on|20px|20px|20px|20px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pexels-sarah-chai-7282759-scaled.jpg” title_text=”pexels-sarah-chai-7282759″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_radii=”on|20px|20px|20px|20px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Meta Pro Book||||||||” text_text_color=”#003c68″ header_font=”Meta Pro||||||||” header_text_color=”#bb6f7a” header_font_size=”25px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
A model for making every contact with babies and caregiver\u2019s count<\/strong><\/p>\n Cultural humility and early relational health share a core common principle: the significance of the not-knowing stance. When human infant and caregiver meet, they get to know each other in a messy, moment-by-moment developmental process over time. In parallel, when clinicians meet and get to know families, a stance of not-knowing \u2014 with\u00a0 a willingness to make mistakes\u2014 guides the process of building a relationship of trust.<\/p>\n This presentation and workshop offer a unifying model of \u201clistening in\u201d listening with an intentional suspension of expectations and a willingness to be surprised. This model is rooted in core concepts from contemporary developmental science and applicable to broad variety of clinical encounters and situations in work with infants and families.<\/p>\n Drawing on my most recent books Getting to Know You: Lessons in Early Relational Health from Infants and Caregivers, we will address core early relational health principles that inform the model of Listening In including the repair theory of human development, parental reflective functioning, the healing power of safety, and the ways that relationships change the brain and body. Participants are invited to bring their own experience for in-depth discussion of the application of these principles to clinical work with infants and caregivers.<\/p>\n Lessons from stories of actual infant-caregiver relationships, will reveal the power of playing in the uncertainty. Reframing a deficit as an asset, the presentations will demonstrate how moments where we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, uncomfortable as they may be, are the ones that offer the most opportunity for connection, growth, and healing. When we can remain open to not-knowing we can better find our way into another person’s experience, in turn building a sense of connection and belonging.<\/p>\n Claudia M. Gold, MD is a paediatrician and writer who practiced paediatrics for 20 years and now specializes in early relational health. She has over three decades of clinical experience in a wide variety of communities and currently works in a volunteer clinic for uninsured families and as a consultant to a program for pregnant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpimhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"