Narrative Analysis of Parent-Pediatrician Discourse in Well-Child Visits

Presented by Constance Keefer, MD

This webinar was presented live on October 7th, 2022 at 4pm Eastern time. A recording of the webinar is available here

Constance Keefer, MD

Parents brought meaningful experiences of their child to pediatric visits in the form of recognizable and identifiable stories. These stories were used to affirm, evaluate, explain, repair, and plan. Problem solving and learning occurred in the narrative mode. Both parents and pediatricians created and used stories.

Dr. Constance Helen Keefer’s career as a general pediatrician has included experience in both pediatric primary care and newborn hospital medicine.  She was one of the first pediatric fellows to study under Berry Brazelton at the Child Development Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital and was invited by Dr. Brazelton to remain on as faculty.  She went to Kenya to study the behavior of Gusii infants and this interest in cultural differences led her to China and many other countries where she taught pediatricians about newborn behavior and development and introduced the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale to physicians across the world.  She has served as Director on the Newborn Nurseries at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and directed the Healthy Connections Program at Boston Children's Hospital, a perinatal intervention program.  She has been a Brazelton Institute senior faculty member since its foundation and joined the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at BCH as Senior Faculty.  Dr. Keefer is a co-author of the NBO Handbook and an NBO Master Trainer.  She is currently a consultant pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and holds the appointment of Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

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