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- ISBN 9780807786543
- Dimensions: 162 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This user-friendly guide uses narrative storytelling to describes the principles of early relational health with direct application to day-to-day work with infants and parents.
Practitioners on the front lines often feel great pressure to know "what to do" in a wide range of challenging situations. Drawing on both developmental science and extensive clinical experience, Dr. Gold provides evidence that the exact opposite—a stance of not-knowing—helps us find our way into another person's experience, offering the greatest opportunity for connection, growth, and healing.
Gold presents a model of "listening in" with an intentional suspension of expectations and a willingness to be surprised. The paradigm of listening in functions as a kind of superpower to enhance teacher–student, professional–parent, and parent–infant relationships. Getting to Know You is important reading for a broad variety of practitioners working with infants, including early childhood educators, home visitors, pediatricians, doulas, and mental health clinicians, as well as policymakers, parents, and other caregivers.
Book Features:
- Summarizes the key advances in our understanding of brain science, child development, and infant-parent mental health.
- Emphasizes lessons from real-life interactions between infants and caregivers as communicated through detailed clinical vignettes.
- Offers practitioners a model for listening that is rooted in the concept of cultural humility and the idea that even in sameness there is difference.
Claudia M. Gold, MD, is a pediatrician and writer who practiced general pediatrics for over 2 years and now specializes in early relational health. She has clinical experience working in many different communities and speaks frequently to audiences of both parents and professionals.
