Claudia Meininger-Gold MD

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Core faculty UMass Chan Medical School Early Relational Health fellowship

444 Stockbridge RdGreat Barrington, MA 01230
Phone+1 413-528-8580
Fax+1 413-528-8583

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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

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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

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Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 1990 - 2028

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

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