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Friday October 19, 2007
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Adelphi University
Ruth S. Harley University Center, Room 313
T. Berry Brazelton. M.D.
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton received his B.A. from Princeton University and graduated in 1943 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. His interest in child development led to training in child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and the James Jackson Putnam Children’s Center. He subsequently served as a Fellow at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University. There, the process of integrating his dual interests—primary care pediatrics and child psychiatry—culminated in 1972 when he established the Child Development Unit, a pediatric training and research center at Children’s Hospital Boston.
Among Dr. Brazelton’s 40 books on pediatrics and child development are seven titles in the nationally bestselling "Brazelton Way" series (Sleep, Discipline, Calming Your Fussy Baby, Feeding Your Child, Toilet Training, Understanding Sibling Rivalry, and Mastering Anger and Aggression and Touchpoints Three to Six (co-authored by Dr. Sparrow), and Touchpoints 0-3, which has reached nearly a million families and has just been republished in a revised 15th year anniversary edition.
Dr. Brazelton has worked to improve childcare support for all working parents. In recent years, his growing concern about the pressures and stresses that families face has led to appearances before Congressional committees in support of parental and medical leave bills. To further his work, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) at Children’s Hospital Boston was founded in 1993 to mobilize communities around children and families in order to bring relationships back into healthcare and to transform child care into family care. To date, BTC has supported the development of sixty Touchpoints sites around the country. www.Touchpoints.org
One of Dr. Brazelton’s foremost achievements in pediatrics is his Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), published in 1973. Known as the "Brazelton", this evaluation tool is used worldwide, clinically and in research, to assess not only the physical and neurological responses of newborns but also their emotional well being and individual differences. Increasingly, the NBAS is being used as an intervention to help parents understand and relate to their new babies, and new research is underway to study how it can be used to enhance early discharge from the newborn hospital.www.Brazelton-Institute.com
In 1998, a gala event celebrated this work and established Dr. Brazelton’s foundation, the Brazelton Touchpoints Project, Inc., a non-profit organization, to support the Center’s programs and other work with children and families. In 2002, Dr. Brazelton received the World of Children Award for his achievements in child advocacy.
Dr. Brazelton’s current appointments include Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Development at Brown University. In 1995, Harvard Medical School established the T. Berry Brazelton Chair in Pediatrics.
Joshua Sparrow, M.D.
Dr. Sparrow He is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Director of Special Initiatives at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, supervisor for outpatient psychiatry services at Children's Hospital, Boston, and is a board certified child, adolescent, and general psychiatrist, Prior to his medical training, Dr. Sparrow worked for several years as a preschool teacher and journalist in New York City. He co-authored eight books with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton.and authored a weekly New York Times Syndicate column, "Families Today," Dr. Sparrow has also written numerous scholarly papers published in the United States and Europe. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on child and adolescent development. Dr. Sparrow’s work with the Brazelton Touchpoints Center has included consultation on child development and parenting to the Harlem Children’s Zone and to American Indian Early Head Start Programs. He has also consulted to parents and schools in New York City in response to the September 11 disaster. He has served as consultant to the Discovery Channel’s "Ready, Set, Learn" children’s television series and the Fox Family television show "Brazelton on Parenting". He has been called upon by a wide range of national and international media, including ABC World News, Boston Globe, CBS Early Show, Child Magazine and the Today Show, among others.
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Contact
For additional information about this workshop, please contact:
Marcy Safyer, LCSW-R
Linen Hall, Room 11
p - 516.877.3060
e - msafyer@adelphi.edu
The Institute for Parenting
Adelphi University
1 South Avenue
P.O. Box 701
Garden City, NY 11530-0701
f - 516.877.3845
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