Report from Dr. Lavin's Meeting with the
American Academy of Pediatrics national
Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health
This weekend, I was honored to attend my first meeting of the American Academy
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is the world’s largest organization of pediatricians, founded in the 1920’s to promote the provision of free milk to children in need. As such, it is one of the only professional societies formed to help the client, not the professional, and the AAP continues to operate in that spirit, with a fierce devotion to the well-being of children. The Committee that I was recently appointed to is formally designated as the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health (the Committee). The AAP is the voice of America ’s pediatricians, and as such has a widely respected voice here in America and around the world. It gathers leaders and experts in various fields to form its Committees that in turn, develop expert approaches to policies devised to respond to the most pressing challenges to children.
The Committee meets at AAP headquarters in Chicago (see photo), and included pediatricians, child psychiatrists, pediatric nurse practitioners, and child psychologists from around the country. I represented pediatricians from the Midwest region around Ohio . Our agenda presented us with the opportunity to develop policy responses to a very wide range of issues.
These included:
- Helping children respond to the stresses of having parents in the military
- Approaches to helping pediatricians determine the best approach to educational psychological evaluations
- Thinking about how best to screen children in a pediatric practice for mental health problems
- Preparing the child who may have to testify in court
- Supporting the family in the event of the death of a child
- An analysis of the roots and responses to poverty in the
- Presenting insights from emerging neuroscience on how best to parent children
- Developing guidance on discipline
- Enhancing the role of fathers in the raising of children
Over time, Committee deliberations lead to policy reports that are published in the leading medical journal of our specialty, Pediatrics.
The Committee also had the opportunity to review a wide range of emerging trends in policies relevant to families and children at the Federal level and across many states.
Finally, the Committee heard from their liaisons from a wide range of the nation’s leading professional societies devoted to helping children, such as American Academy
It was indeed an honor and privilege to participate in these deliberations and to add my voice to the development of important policy positions of the American Academy
Finally, many thanks to the families of Advanced Pediatrics. It is truly the case that only by your trust in our care that we have had the opportunity to learn together and be in a position to even consider participating in this important work.
Thank you,
Dr. Arthur Lavin
Arthur Lavin, MD FAAP
Associate Clinical Professor of PediatricsAdvanced Pediatrics
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