Sentences with phrase «says pediatric psychologist»

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«There's so much discussion about bonding with a new baby that mothers often feel guilty if they don't feel some incredible attachment to their new baby immediately,» says Edward Christophersen, a pediatric psychologist in Kansas City, Missouri.

A persistent problem with separating that lasts four weeks or more and negatively affects the quality of your child's life, for instance skipping playdates to avoid anxiety, should be discussed with her doctor, says Kristi Alexander, a pediatric psychologist at United States International University in San Diego.

As your little one develops cognitively, by age 3 he should be encouraged to «think about and try to solve simple problems that come up during the day,» says Dr. Nicole Beurkens, Ph.D., a pediatric clinical psychologist at Horizons Developmental Resource Center.

But avoid putting on go - to - sleep music and leaving the room, says psychologist Jodi Mindell, a Philadelphia pediatric sleep expert and author of Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«Many children that we used to call intellectually disabled and many more with social deficits are now recognized as being on the autism spectrum,» said Kathy Katz, a pediatric psychologist at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC.

«Loss of control eating is related to a variety of psychological health concerns, including depression and anxiety,» said Richard E. Boles, Ph.D., pediatric psychologist in the Bariatric Surgery Center at Children's Colorado.

«The results of this study have broad implications for children with autism,» says William Sharp, a behavioral pediatric psychologist in the Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program at Marcus Autism Center and assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine.