Editorials for Clinical Practice

CHADIS Co-Director and President Dr. Barbara Howard is a regular contributor to the Behavioral Consult column of Pediatric News and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Howard is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician trained by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton at Harvard University. She is a national speaker on child behavior problems and is a past president of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She was a contributing author for Bright Futures™, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Primary Care (DSM-PC), and Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health and has served on national committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Articles

• How Can We Make Time for Empathic Clinician-Patient Interaction?
• Family Not Flourishing? The Hidden Issue of Food Insecurity and How Can We Help
• SAFE: Ensuring Access for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
• Help! More Clinicians Are Needed to Manage Care for Children With Autism. How About You?
• Is Picky Eating a Problem?
• Stimulant Medications for ADHD — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Too old for time out. Now what? Oppositional behavior in school-age children.
• Can medication management smooth the journey for families of autistic children?
• Did you know these things about nicotine? Your patients don't.
• Don't give up on relentless youth depression
• Sorting out the meaning of misbehavior: The invisible culprit
• No more encopresis!
• Is your patient having an existential crisis?
• I sent my suicidal teen patient to the ED: Whew?
• Child ‘Mis’behavior – What’s ‘mis’ing?
• To vape or not to vape: Is that really a question?
• Manners matter
• How dogs can teach parenting
• Racism: Developmental perspective can inform tough conversations
• Making something ordinary out of the extraordinary
• Play it as it lies: Handling lying by kids
• Poor sleep due to ADHD or ADHD due to poor sleep?
• It’s all in the timing
• ALERT: Grandmother in the room!
• Scoring below the cut but still depressed: What to do?
• Making an Effective Referral is Surprisingly Complex
• Dissuading Parents From Using Corporal Punishment
• Ghostbusting in Pediatric Primary Care
• How to Help Crying Infants
• Making an effective referral is surprisingly complex
• Speaking the unspeakable: Talking to children about parental mental illness
• Assessing and managing the many faces of childhood trauma
• Why do you need to know about bipolar disorder?
• Taming or teaching the tiger? Myths and management of childhood aggression
• Sleepless in adolescence
• You can help with thebehaviorof children with autism spectrum disorder
• Learn how to manage your patients' behavior problems
• Mindfulness and child health
• Solving stool refusal
• What, you never filled the prescription?!
• Not enough time? Time to rethink
• Do as I say, not as I do! A futile plea
• Me? Address social determinants of health? How?
• Don’t touch that! You’ll get hurt! Fear in childhood.
• Value of the Pre-Baby Visit
• Adoption and Its Challenges
• ADHD and Comorbidities
• He just won’t poop
• Head Banging, Breath Holding Typically Go Away
• If babies don't sleep at night, check feeding schedule
• Internet incontinence and other daytime disasters
• Soothing Parents of Infants Who Cry
• We already tried that ... Refining your behavior management plans
• When to Refer Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Why screen if there are no services?