Today’s podcast is part one in a two part series detailing how to take a social history for children. Objectives for this podcast are to recognize the importance of taking a detailed social history, to learn the ITHELLPS framework as a guide to social history taking and to identify strategies to intervene for families identified as having social challenges. This podcast was developed by Laura Kerr, a medical student at Dalhousie University, with the support of Dr. Sarah Gander, a General Pediatrician at the Saint John Regional Hospital.    Related Content: Podcast: Social History Taking Part 2 Podcast: Pediatric History Taking Podcast: Adolescent Medicine