Welcome to Pediatric Meltdown, the podcast for busy pediatricians who want to better understand children’s emotional health, behaviors, and gain the skills and knowledge to help them thrive. I am your host, Lia Gaggino. In this episode, I brought in Dr. Mark Sloane. He is a board-certified pediatrician and an adolescent medicine specialist.
Let’s dive into Dr. Mark’s story of how important it is to build a safe space for kids with mental illnesses and how to get involved in your community to help with kids’ healing process. This is a movement that is not restricted to medical practitioners alone, everybody can make an impact on kids’ lives and we are all in this together.
[00:01 – 11:02] Opening Segment
- Introducing today’s guest, Dr. Mark Sloane
- Dr. Mark talks about his career
- He wasn’t ready to practice because of limited training
- He did ADHD-related work
- Worked in a Trauma Center
- Most moms were exposed to drugs, alcohol and domestic violence
- How can we help kids with their functional outcomes?
- Working across different systems
- How do we achieve better outcomes and success?
[11:03 – 28:11] Building Safe Spaces for Kids’ Emotions
- Dr. Mark talks about continuing to improve the medication process dealing with kid’s mental illness
- Looking for a holy grail pay off
- How do we make things safe for kids with trauma?
- Dr. Mark talks about using the same med-model on kids of different ages
- Some families have no problems with their older kids but struggle on the younger ones
- Kids being traumatized by the system
- Getting compared to their siblings
- Where do kids feel safe?
- With school, teachers and their doctors
- Helping them remember somebody they trusted
- The Power of Adult’s Resilience
- If a kid has an adult that is crazy about them, this will help them big time with their healing process
[28:12 – 38:36] Collaborating with Other People
- Medicine and Prescriptions are just not enough
- Medicine only works to a certain extent
- Anybody can make an impact on kids’ recovery process
- You don’t have to be a psychiatrist
- Dr. Mark talks about bringing in different people to help with primary care work for kids
- Making connections
- Schools need to work with doctors and vice versa
- How do you get everybody on the table?
- Having the right infrastructure buildings and personnel
- We will all benefit from doing it. It’s hard but worth it!
[38:37 – 44:40] Closing Segment
- There are so many ways that we can help and support these programs
- We are all in this together
- Final words from me and Dr. Mark
Tweetable Quotes:
“If a kid has one adult that’s irrationally crazy about them that can matter and that’s enough.” – Dr. Mark Sloane
“Primary care has been traumatized and the answer is relational change by reaching out to other people to help us mend our own trauma” – Dr. Lia Gaggino
Resources Mentioned:
- Thinking Developmentally – Andrew Garner
- Children’s Trauma Assessment Center – WMU Kalamazoo
- Bruce Perry, MD, PhD – www.bdperry.com
- Ross Greene, PhD – www.drrossgreene.com
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