#108 Dr. Claudia Gold: Childism - Prejudice Against Children

Dr. Claudia Gold practiced general and behavioral pediatrics for over 25 years and now specializes in early childhood mental health. Gold is the director of The Hello It’s Me Project, a rural community based-program designed to promote healthy relationships between infants and their caregivers. Gold works as a clinician with FIRST Steps Together, a United States federally funded program for pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorders, and as an infant-parent mental health consultant at Volunteers in Medicine, Berkshires. Gold has written numerous articles and she presents regularly for audiences of both parents and professionals around the world. Gold has written four books: The Power of Discord with co-author Ed Tronick, forthcoming June 2020, The Developmental Science of Early Childhood(2017), The Silenced Child(2016), and Keeping Your Child in Mind(2011). Gold is also on the faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Brazelton Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital , and the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute.