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Teresa M. Kohlenberg, M.D. Psychiatrist Dr. Teresa (Tesi, pronounced Tay-zee) M. Kohlenberg is an experienced, Board-Certified Pediatrician who has also completed fellowship training in both developmental and behavioral pediatrics (University of Massachusetts) and child and adolescent psychiatry (Children’s Hospital Boston). Dr. Kohlenberg has been in private practice as a child psychiatrist for a number of years. She has also worked as a consulting psychiatrist to the special education department of a large public school system, assisting teams serving children and adolescents aged 3 to 21 with a variety of developmental, emotional and learning challenges. She currently teaches and supervises fellows in child psychiatry in the Child Behavior Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center. Dr. Kohlenberg has a deep interest in the early relationships between parents and their young children. She is the past-president and a long-time board member of the Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents. She has also explored the role that ethnicity and culture play in children’s adjustments, and in the interactions between families and health caregivers. As a parent both by birth and by international, trans-racial adoption, as well as a parent of a child with special needs, she writes, “Through these experiences, I have learned a great deal more about Early Intervention, special education, adjustment in adoptive families and the challenges facing families in obtaining services for their children.” Over the past decade, her work has focused more on the issues affecting adoptive families and families whose children have special needs, including the role of nutritional and other complementary or alternative approaches for children with learning, attentional and emotional difficulties. Dr. Kohlenberg also provides consulting services to families of children evaluated at NESCA, including consultation on issues related to psychiatric medication. When a trial of medication looks likely to benefit a child, she will work in collaboration with the pediatrician to prescribe and evaluate medication, developing an effective regimen that the child's pediatrician can then continue. |
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