She'thel Reddy

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We know that maternal depression can impact their bonding with their child. It can impact the the interaction and the quality of that interaction with their child.

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Practices that incorporate mental health within the practice find it valuable to have a psychologist with an open schedule who can see families during the same visit for issues like ADHD, school problems, or weight and feeding concerns.

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Quotation The reason I chose it is because kind of gets into the nitty gritty of um more of talking about parenting styles, um different things that are happening in the home environment that may be um contributing to or promoting um obesity in our very young kids Open

Quotation I think one of the strengths actually is that they actually did look at maternal depressive symptoms during that 1st 3 years of life. Open

Quotation I think it kind of supports this idea of better integration within the medical model of behavioral health specialists, whether that's psychologists or otherwise Open

Statement The intervention can improve maternal-child relationships, suggesting the need to focus on more than just nutrition and activity, but the bigger family system including relationships and messages about eating and healthy habits. Open

Quotation I think parents are happy to talk about them. Anything that improves that maternal child relationship, I imagine that they would welcome Open

Statement Maternal depression can impact bonding with the child and the quality of interaction with the child. Open

Quotation We know that maternal depression can impact their bonding with their child. It can impact the the interaction and the quality of that interaction with their child. Open

Statement In the Strong for Life Clinic, they screen for depression in children and also do a depression screener for the primary caregiver (usually the mother). Open

Quotation I think parents are actually relieved to have someone to Uh, talk with, talk about it with, and if it's going to help, uh, change something about the quality of their interaction with their child, I, I think they're pretty open to that Open

Statement A quick assessment of parenting styles can be done by asking what a typical day is like, which reveals information about boundaries for bedtimes, rules for homework, and level of parental involvement. Open

Quotation One of the quickest ways to do that is probably to assess. Kind of a general assessment of what a kid's day is like. Um, you'll find out a lot just by asking what's a typical day like Open

Statement Practices that incorporate mental health within the practice find it valuable to have a psychologist with an open schedule who can see families during the same visit for issues like ADHD, school problems, or weight and feeding concerns. Open

Quotation I think pediatricians are slammed. I think this is a lot to really ask um for them to do, and I think that's why there's been a push to actually incorporate uh mental health within the practice. Open

Quotation I think the practices that have done that, at least from the research I'm reading, find it very valuable to have someone on the team who, um, you know, a psychologist say who. Has an open schedule and if you see a child who has possible ADHD or some issues at school or maybe there are some concerns about weight and um feeding eating practices at home to be able to ask the family to see the psychologist while they're in the office Open

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Psychology Journal Club: Pediatric Obesity 2017

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: This is really a study that is not focused on addressing childhood obesity in an obesity clinic. This is sort of an integrated approach in a pediatric general pediatric office Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: Risk factors for obesity are similar to characteristics that go into social and emotional development of children, including emotion regulation, temperament, inhibitory control, and reward sensitivity. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: General parenting interventions that improve parent-child communication in adolescence and social development in younger children have found a decrease in BMI, greater initiation of breastfeeding, and reduction in obesity. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: The study hypothesized that families at risk who declined intervention would demonstrate obesity-promoting feeding styles and their child would have an obese BMI by age 5. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: The study controlled for confounds including child gender, siblings, insurance status, birth weight, and maternal factors (age, race, country of origin, educational attainment, marital status, employment status, depressive symptoms, and BMI). Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: The Ages and Stages Questionnaire social-emotional subscale assessed self-regulation, compliance, communication, adaptive behaviors, autonomy, affect, and interpersonal interactions to define risk groups. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: The behavioral intervention had three levels: collaborative monitoring for least risk, on-site intervention (home or office visit) for greater risk, and outside referrals for long-term care for families with severe risks. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: Child feeding practices assessed included food consumption frequencies, eating out at restaurants, family meals, restriction, pressuring children to eat, setting limits, monitoring, reinforcing, using food as reward, using food for emotion regulation, parental role modeling, and maintaining healthy home food environment. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: The study used retrospective data from a community health center providing pediatric primary care, including mothers of 5-year-old children who had at least one social-emotional screening during the child's first 3 years of life. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: In the at-risk group that declined to participate, there was decreased limit setting, less restriction, more pressure to eat, lack of sensitivity or non-responsiveness to feeding cues, more permissive parenting, and mothers were more likely to report depressive symptoms. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: I think the takeaways are that they were able to find a link between social-emotional problems during the 1st 3 years of life and a connection with obesity at age 5. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: The study found a link between social-emotional problems during the first 3 years of life and a connection with obesity at age 5. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: Families that participated in the generalized intervention saw benefit in their child's weight status. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: The one thing that stood out was that the, the participants that the, the families that were at risk and participated had the lowest consumption of juice of any group, including the ones that were not at risk. So it seems like some of this information really stuck. Open

Host summary She'thel Reddy summarizing the discussion: Families at risk who participated had the lowest consumption of juice of any group, including those not at risk, suggesting messaging about sugary drinks stuck. Open