Getting to Know You: Lessons in Early Relational Health from Infants and Caregivers

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Claudia M. Gold, MD Junlei Li

Getting to Know You

Lessons in Early Relational Health from Infants and Caregivers

Claudia M. Gold, MD, Junlei Li, Lisa Matter , Hoda Shawky

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Teachers' College Press
28 March 2025

Age groups: children; Child & developmental psychology; Pre-school & kindergarten; Pregnancy, birth & baby care

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.

By: Claudia M. Gold MD
Afterword by: Lisa Matter, Hoda Shawky
Foreword by: Junlei Li
Imprint: Teachers' College Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780807786536
ISBN 10: 0807786535
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.