Ed Tronick and Claudia Gold will discuss "The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships Are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience and Trust," on Tuesday, December 8, at 7:00 PM Claudia Gold has teamed up with Ed Tronick, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UMass Boston to write The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships Are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience and Trust. In a recent YouTube interview with pediatrician Richard Turner, Gold and Tronick talked at length about how in young children the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACE for short) both reverberate in health outcomes when they are adults, but can also be mitigated if mediated when they are still young. The renowned researchers will discuss their work on Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00 PM, via ZOOM. They will be introduced by Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
With the Covid 19 pandemic forcing many families, extended or not, to be in close quarters with few outside sources of relief, this book arguably could not have come at a better time. Ed Tronick, a longtime South End resident, directs the UMass Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program and the acclaimed Child Development Unit where Gold was one of his first fellows.
Gold came to the South End library in October 2017 to discuss The Silenced Child, a book she wrote after becoming alarmed by the number of parents in her practice who were concerned their child was not normal when she/he behaved badly. She realized that the time and space necessary for listening to young children was falling by the wayside in the fast-paced lives of too many families. Worse, she said, this critically important interaction in the child's development was increasingly being replaced by medical disorder diagnoses and labeling, followed by treatment with medication, behavior management of the child, and parent education to comply with time-shortened medical advice.
In a posting for The Berkshire Edge by Hannah Van Sickle, who reviewed Power of Discord, Gold said “‘The process of [our] writing the book together is kind of what the book is about. Here we are, two completely different people with totally different experiences and perspectives, and we had to kind of get into the messiness of that, and the mismatch and repair process’ required for a collaboration of this nature.”
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