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11 - Anticipatory Guidance: What Information Do Parents Receive? What Information Do They Want?
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- By Mark A. Schuster, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Health Services, School of Public Health University of California, Los Angeles; Senior Natural Scientist RAND; Director UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, Michael Regalado, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Naihua Duan, Professor in Residence Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, David J. Klein, Senior Quantitative Analyst RAND, Santa Monica, California
- Edited by Neal Halfon, University of California, Los Angeles, Kathryn Taaffe McLearn, Columbia University, New York, Mark A. Schuster, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Child Rearing in America
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- 15 July 2009
- Print publication:
- 08 July 2002, pp 320-344
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Summary
Our [medical] curriculum covers a certain amount of study of the anatomy and physiology of the child about which mothers never ask us, but the information which they seek has to do with that which cannot be obtained from books, but rather is that sort of knowledge which has passed from mouth to mouth down through the centuries. Instead of asking mother or grandmother what should be done, the doctor is consulted. If her confidence is to be retained, the physician must be as familiar with the proper manner of bathing a baby as he is with the treatment of pneumonia, and he may render the baby as notable a service in one instance as in the other.
The doctor is taking the place more and more of the ‘advice offering neighbor,’ and it behooves him to be able to advise the mother correctly.
B. R. Hoobler, “The Desirability of Teaching Students Details Concerning the Care of the Normal Infant,” Transactions of the Association of American Teachers of Diseases of Children, 1917.Physicians who take care of children are often called on to provide education and counseling about child rearing. Their advice may be especially important for the parents of young children, who grow and develop rapidly and sometimes seem to change overnight. Although physicians have been playing this role for at least the last century, the medical profession has given it greater attention in recent years in response to several factors: technological advances in medicine, a growing understanding of neuroscience and child development, and evolving systems of health care delivery.