In this engaging, approachable book, a pediatrician and a psychologist walk step by step through the transformational process of creating a trauma-informed practice. They begin with essential concepts such as the debate over “ACE screening,” then share how to prepare an organization for change, assess risks to relational health, support caregivers, use resilience-based interventions, and finally how to sustain a trauma-responsive practice. Reflecting the authors’ call for interdisciplinary collaboration, the book is presented as a dialogue between two experts, describing how they collaborated on their own practice transformation—including both the pitfalls and the factors that made the process successful. Available for purchase at https://www.aap.org/The-Trauma-Informed-Pediatric-Practice-Paperback
8: Revamping Anticipatory Guidance
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Published:August 2024
R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, FAAP, "Revamping Anticipatory Guidance", The Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice: A Resilience-Based Roadmap to Foster Early Relational Health, R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, FAAP, Amy King, PhD
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Anticipatory guidance is a mainstay of the pediatric well-child visit. You’ve been doing this your entire career, using the same teaching scripts (probably ones you developed years ago), every well-child visit, day in and day out.
It gets a little dull, doesn’t it?
Believe me, it does for our patients as well—if it’s the same information for the same family, again and again, child after child. Sitting across from a sixth-time mom at her child’s 2-year appointment, I started my anticipatory guidance conversation with my usual “Let’s talk about safety”…at which point she slumped in her chair and waved her...