ClaudiaMeininger-GoldMD

Pediatrics • Great Barrington, MA

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Core faculty UMass Chan Medical School Early Relational Health fellowship

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Office
444 Stockbridge Rd
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Phone+1 413-528-8580

Fax+1 413-528-8583

Summary

I am a board certified pediatrician and writer who practiced general and behavioral pediatrics for over 20 years and now specializes in infant-parent mental health. I am on the faculty of the Early Relational Health Fellowship Program at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Brazelton Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital. She graduated from the University of Chicago and U of C Pritzker School of Medicine. I am clinician with Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires and director of the Hello It’s Me Project, a program designed to bring early relational health principles to high-need, low-resourced communities. I am the author of four books: The Power of Discord with co-author Ed Tronick (2020), The Developmental Science of Early Childhood (2017), The Silenced Child (2016), and Keeping Your Child in Mind( 2011), with a new book- Getting to Know You: Lessons in Developmental Science from Infants and Caregivers-forthcoming. I speak frequently to a variety of audiences both lay and professional.

Claudia M. Gold, MD

Website for Claudia M. Gold MD, a pediatrician and writer with a longstanding interest in addressing children's mental health care in a preventive model. She ha

Education & Training

Berkshire Psychoanalytic InstituteNo Degree, Advanced Scholar’s Program, 2008 - 2012
UMass BostonNo Degree, Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program, 2010 - 2011
Berkshire Psychoanalytic InstituteNo Degree, Scholar’s Program, 2004 - 2008
Yale Child Study Center/Anna Freud CentreNo Degree, Psychoanalytic Research Training Program, 2008
Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Pediatrics, 1987 - 1990
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of MedicineClass of 1987
University of ChicagoNo Degree, 1978 - 1983

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 1990 - 2026

Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

A Scholar’s Quest to Integrate Two Disciplines
Gold, M, The American Psychoanalyst, 1/1/2006
Contemporary Attachment Theory Offers New Paradigm for Behavioral Pediatrics
Gold, M, Behavioral Developments

Books/Book Chapters

The Developmental Science of Early Childhood
Claudia M. GoldW.W,Norton & Company, New YorkEdition 1,2017
The Silenced Child: From Labels, Medications, and Quick-Fix Solutions to Listening, Growth, and Lifelong Resilience
Claudia M. GoldDa Capo, Boston2016
Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child’s Eyes
Gold, MA Merloyd Lawrence Book Da Capo Press2011

Abstracts/Posters

Are You My Mother? A Psychoanalytic Search for the Maternal
Gold, M, Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute Austen Riggs Center, 1/9/2015
Emotional and Behavioral Challenges in Children: Working Toward a New Model of Preventive Mental Health Care
Gold, M, Paul A. Dewald Lecture St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, 1/1/2013
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Shifting From Diagnosis to Meaningful Narrative
Gold, M, 2nd Annual Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation Conference Montclair State University: The Magic in Moments: Patterns of Early Relationships that Create Resilient Individuals and Peaceful Societies, 1/1/2013
Is “ADHD” an Artificial Construct?
Gold, M, Maternal Child Health Commission Forum on ADHD, Springfield, MA, 1/1/2013
Development of the Parent: The Child’s Contribution
Gold, M, Interdisciplinary Council on Learning and Development Annual Conference; The Power of Affect: Developing Human Potential Through DIRFloortime, Self-Determination and Mindsight, 1/1/2012
Confronting Childism: How the Field of Infant Mental Health Can Inform the Field of Child Protection
Gold, M, University of West Virginia Law School Symposium Child Protection in the 21st Century, 1/1/2012
Development of the Parent: The Child’s Contribution
Gold, M, Austen Riggs/Yale Conference The Development of the Parent as a Person: Psychological, Neurobiological and Genetic Contributions, 1/1/2012
Mentalization in the Pediatric Setting
Gold, M, Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program UMass, Boston, 1/1/2012
Application of Infant Mental Health Concepts in Everyday Practice
Gold, M, North Pacific Pediatric Society Meeting, 1/1/2012
Infant Mental Health in the Primary Care Setting
Gold, M, Grand Rounds, Winthrop University Hospital, 2012; Newton Wellesley Hospital, 2012, 1/1/2012
Making Psychoanalytic Concepts Relevant and Meaningful for Parents
Gold, M, Western Massachusetts and Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy(WMAAPP), 1/1/2010
Contemporary Attachment Theory in the Primary Care Setting
Gold, M, Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, 1/1/2008
Preventive Application of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory in the Primary Care Setting
Gold, M, WMAAPP Berkshire Study Group (APA, Division 39), 1/1/2007
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Other

Child Protection and Infant Mental Health: An Essential Partnership
Gold, M, West Virginia Law Review
1/1/2013
Multiple Op Eds
Gold, M, The Boston Globe

Professional Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics - AAP
Member
American Psychoanalytic Association
Member
Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Member
Massacusetts Association for Infant Mental Health
Member

External Links

Websitehttp://www.claudiamgoldmd.com/
Bloghttp://www.claudiamgoldmd.blogspot.com/