# 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?](https://site.chadis.com/empathicclinician) - [Family Not Flourishing? The Hidden Issue of Food Insecurity and How Can We Help](https://site.chadis.com/hidden-issue-of-food-insecurity) - [SAFE: Ensuring Access for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities](https://site.chadis.com/ensuring-access-for-children-with-neurodevelopmental-disabilities) - [Help! More Clinicians Are Needed to Manage Care for Children With Autism. How About You?](https://site.chadis.com/clinicians-needed-to-manage-asd-care) - [Is Picky Eating a Problem?](https://site.chadis.com/copy-of-oppositional-behavior-in-chil) - [Stimulant Medications for ADHD — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly](https://site.chadis.com/adhdstimulatemedications) - [Too old for time out. Now what? Oppositional behavior in school-age children.](https://site.chadis.com/too-old-for-timeout) - [Can medication management smooth the journey for families of autistic children?](https://site.chadis.com/autism-and-medication-management) - [Did you know these things about nicotine? Your patients don't.](https://site.chadis.com/did-you-know-these-things-about-nicotine) - [Don't give up on relentless youth depression](https://site.chadis.com/dont-give-up-on-relentless-youth-depression) - [Sorting out the meaning of misbehavior: The invisible culprit](https://site.chadis.com/sorting-out-the-meaning-of-misbehavior) - [No more encopresis!](https://site.chadis.com/no-more-encopresis) - [Is your patient having an existential crisis?](https://site.chadis.com/is-your-patient-having-an-existential-crisis) - [I sent my suicidal teen patient to the ED: Whew?](https://site.chadis.com/isentmysuicidalteenpatienttotheer) - [Child ‘Mis’behavior – What’s ‘mis’ing?](https://site.chadis.com/copy-of-why-screen-if-there-are-no) - [To vape or not to vape: Is that really a question?](https://site.chadis.com/pediatricianscandiscouragevaping) - [Manners matter](https://site.chadis.com/copy-of-to-vape-or-not-to-vape-is-t) - [How dogs can teach parenting](https://site.chadis.com/howdogscanteachparenting) - [Racism: Developmental perspective can inform tough conversations](https://site.chadis.com/racism-developmental-perspective) - [Making something ordinary out of the extraordinary](https://site.chadis.com/making-something-ordinary-out-of-th) - [Play it as it lies: Handling lying by kids](https://site.chadis.com/handling-lying-by-kids) - [Poor sleep due to ADHD or ADHD due to poor sleep?](https://site.chadis.com/poor-sleep-due-to-adhd) - [It’s all in the timing](https://site.chadis.com/its-all-in-the-timing) - [ALERT: Grandmother in the room!](https://site.chadis.com/alert-grandmother-in-the-room) - [Scoring below the cut but still depressed: What to do?](https://site.chadis.com/scoring-below-the-cut-but-still-dep) - [Making an Effective Referral is Surprisingly Complex](https://site.chadis.com/making-an-effective-referral) - [Dissuading Parents From Using Corporal Punishment](https://site.chadis.com/dissuading-parents-from-using-corpo) - [Ghostbusting in Pediatric Primary Care](https://site.chadis.com/ghostbusting-in-pediatric-primary-h) - [How to Help Crying Infants](https://site.chadis.com/howtohelpcryinginfants) - [Making an effective referral is surprisingly complex](https://site.chadis.com/making-an-effective-referral-is-complex) - [Speaking the unspeakable: Talking to children about parental mental illness](https://site.chadis.com/talking-to-children-about-parental) - [Assessing and managing the many faces of childhood trauma](https://site.chadis.com/assessing-and-managing) - [Why do you need to know about bipolar disorder?](https://site.chadis.com/why-do-you-need-to-learn-about) - [Taming or teaching the tiger? Myths and management of childhood aggression](https://site.chadis.com/taming-or-teaching-the-tiger) - [Sleepless in adolescence](https://site.chadis.com/sleeplessness-in-adolescence) - [You can help with the](https://site.chadis.com/you-can-help-with-behavior-with)[behavior](https://site.chadis.com/you-can-help-with-behavior-with)[of children with autism spectrum disorder](https://site.chadis.com/you-can-help-with-behavior-with) - [Learn how to manage your patients' behavior problems](https://site.chadis.com/learn-how-to-manage-your-patients) - [Mindfulness and child health](https://site.chadis.com/mindfulness-and-child-health) - [Solving stool refusal](https://site.chadis.com/solving-stool-refusal) - [What, you never filled the prescription?!](https://site.chadis.com/you-never-filled-the-prescription) - [Not enough time? Time to rethink](https://site.chadis.com/not-enough-time-time-to-rethink) - [Do as I say, not as I do! A futile plea](https://site.chadis.com/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do) - [Me? Address social determinants of health? How?](https://site.chadis.com/me-address-social-determinants) - [Don’t touch that! You’ll get hurt! Fear in childhood.](https://site.chadis.com/dont-touch-that-youll-get-hurt) - [Value of the Pre-Baby Visit](https://site.chadis.com/value-of-the-prebaby-visit) - [Adoption and Its Challenges](https://site.chadis.com/adoption-and-its-challenges) - [ADHD and Comorbidities](https://site.chadis.com/adhd-and-comorbidiies) - [He just won’t poop](https://site.chadis.com/he-just-wont-pop) - [Head Banging, Breath Holding Typically Go Away](https://site.chadis.com/head-banging-breath-holding) - [If babies don't sleep at night, check feeding schedule](https://site.chadis.com/if-babies-dont-sleep-at-night) - [Internet incontinence and other daytime disasters](https://site.chadis.com/internet-incontinence-and-other) - [Soothing Parents of Infants Who Cry](https://site.chadis.com/soothing-parents-of-infants-who) - [We already tried that ... Refining your behavior management plans](https://site.chadis.com/we-already-tried-that) - [When to Refer Oppositional Defiant Disorder](https://site.chadis.com/when-to-refer-oppositional-defiant) - [Why screen if there are no services?](https://site.chadis.com/why-screen-if-there-are-no-services)