General Articles for Parents
- A Letter to Parents
- What Should Parents Expect From a Health Plan That Provides Quality Behavioral Health Care?
- Taking Charge of Your Child's Emotional Health
- Parent Article Disclaimer
Guest Articles
Written for parents by leading experts in psychosocial pediatrics and related fields.
- ADHD: A Pediatrician's Perspective
- Diagnosis at the Bedside of Modern Medicine
- Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: New Language for Parents and Children
- Raising a Child Who Wants to Stay Alive
- Some Selected Pages From A Very Touching Book by Jan Hindman, illustrated by Tom Novak
- The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Responding to the Pressure for Fast Answers
- The Illusion of Certainty: Do Advances in Psychopharmacology Suggest That Students' Inner Lives Are Irrelevant?
- The Self-Destructive Child
- Understanding Alcohol Abuse in Adolescents
- War on Terrorism Hits Home for Generation X
- When a Parent Has Cancer: Supporting Children and Families
Parent to Parent
Written for parents by parents.
- A Family's Experience with Psychosocial Pediatrics
- A Pediatrician to Keep
- Finding the Right Path to Parenting
- Saying Goodbye to Our Pediatrician
Initial Findings
In October 2004, a group of 15 pediatricians and nurse practitioners began to meet once a month, for a one-year period, to see if they could increase their competence in providing psychosocial assessments of children and families, in response to parental concerns, within their own pediatric practice. This article briefly describes the lessons we learned through this pilot project.Support
I would like to thank the following for their generous support, without whom this web site and training program would not exist: The Alden Trust, The Kenneth Schwartz Center, The Locke Educational Fund, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, The Aetna Health Plan, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and the families of my medical practice.I hope you find this site useful and encourage any comments.
- Dr. Howard King, M.D.
