Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.

Hello, and welcome to Mad in the Family, the podcast of Mad in America's Parent Resources

section. I'm Miranda Spencer, Parent Resources Editor.

Today, we're going to talk about the role of human interaction in child development,

specifically how conflict and miscommunication between parent and child is not only okay, but

crucial to a young person's social and emotional development.

According to our guest, the messiness of our relationships is exactly what helps us build trust,

resilience, and a solid sense of self in the world. That is the subject of her latest book,

which she is going to discuss with us. She is Claudia Gold, MD, a pediatrician, infant parent mental health

specialist, author, teacher, and speaker based in Western Massachusetts. She has practiced

general and behavioral pediatrics for more than 25 years, focusing on a preventative model,

and now specializes in early childhood mental health. She's the director

of the Hello It's Me Project, a rural community-based program designed to promote healthy

relationships between infants and caregivers, and also works as a clinician with first steps together,

a federally funded program for pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorders, and as an infant parent mental health consultant at Volunteers and Medicine, Berkshires.

Dr. Gold serves 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.

Dr. Gold is the author of four books on child psychology and development,

keeping your child in mind, the silenced child,

the developmental science of early childhood,

and most recently, the power of discord,

written with Dr. Ed Tronik and published in 2020.

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