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Promoting Child Social-Emotional Growth in Primary Care Settings: Using A Developmental Approach

Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

W. Peter Metz, MD

University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Worcester, MA

Clinicians are often faced with meaningful child/family mental health concerns, and yet suggesting a helpful course of action can be very challenging. While pediatricians routinely use a developmental framework to evaluate young children’s cognitive, motor, and language skills, this occurs much less frequently for social-emotional development. Only recently have newer models of child development been put forth that emphasize the central role that emotions play in organizing the interactions among cognitive, motor, and language development across the lifespan. We review such a model of social-emotional growth and consider its implications for use in primary care settings.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 43, No. 2, 119-127 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/000992280404300201


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