Web address: www.aacap.org
American Association of Suicidology: a nonprofit organization of mental health professionals, suicide prevention center volunteers, and survivors of suicide, devoted to educating the public about suicide prevention.
Web address: www.suicidology.org.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP): a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading knowledge about suicide and the means to prevent it. AFSP offers an excellent short video, “The Truth about Suicide: Real Stories of Depression on Campus,” and a facilitator’s guide for instructional use on college campuses.
Web address: www.afsp.org
American Psychiatric Association (APA): a medical specialty professional organization of more than 35,000 U.S. and international member physicians. (Also see “ParentsMedGuide” below.) In 2005 the APA launched a new Web site, www.HealthyMinds.org, a consumer-friendly site organized by psychiatric disorder and topic information; the site offers a referral service linking patients to psychiatrists nationwide. Call 1-888-35-PSYCH.
Web address: www.HealthyMinds.org; www.psych.org
American Psychological Association (APA): a professional organization of researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students working to advance psychology as a science and profession. Offers numerous educational resources and by calling 1-800-964-2000 an operator will locate your state’s psychological association’s referral service.
Web address: www.apa.org
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the rights of children (and adults) with mental illnesses, working on issues related to incarceration and relinquishment of custody, and equal access to care and treatment.
Web address: www.bazelon.org
Breaking the Silence: an educational and advocacy organization that offers lesson plans, games, and posters directed at upper elementary, middle, and high school aged children, designed to put a human face on mental illness and address the myths that reinforce stigma.
Web address: www.btslessonplans.org
Campaign for Mental Health Reform: a national partnership of organizations representing people with mental or emotional disorders, their families, service providers, administrators, and other concerned Americans, designed to address recovery, coherence, and quality in mental health services at the national level by engaging federal policymakers.
Web address: www.mhreform.org
Centers for Disease Control, United States Government: collects statistical information regarding youth suicide and attempted suicide in the Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report at www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF. The CDC also identifies six critical types of adolescent health behavior that research shows contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among adults and youth.
Web address: www.cdc.gov
Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health: a joint effort among Columbia University, the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the New York State Office of Mental Health at Columbia University, the Center aims to accelerate the acceptance and effective use of proven interventions that foster children’s emotional and behavioral health by involving key community partners and stakeholders to identify and adapt science-based intervention methods.
Web address: www.kidsmentalhealth.org
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF): a parent-led, web-based membership organization of families raising children diagnosed with, or at risk for, early-onset bipolar disorder. The Web site includes information and resources on early-onset bipolar disorder.
Web address: www.cabf.org
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA): advocates on behalf of patients and families through a patient-directed national organization offering peer support and information.
Web address: www.DBSAlliance.org
Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association (DRADA): offers educational programs and support services, including Day for Night, an informational video about depression for teens and their families. DRADA’s adjunct Web site is an excellent resource for teens and families.
Web address: www.depressedteens.com; www.drada.org.
Families for Depression Awareness: created to support family members or friends who are caregivers to adults and children with depression and related mood disorders, and aims to help them recognize and manage these illnesses.
Web address: www.familyaware.org
Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health: a national family-run organization dedicated exclusively to helping children with mental health needs and their families achieve a better quality of life by supporting and fostering a strong educational and activist network.
Web address: www.ffcmh.org
HealthyPlace.com: self-described as the “largest consumer mental health site on the Internet,” offers numerous resources and posts current developments in the field of pharmacology and treatment for adolescents with mental illness.
Web address: www.healthyplace.com/communities/depression.com
Independent Educational Consultants Association: a professional association of full-time educational consultants offering guidance and referrals.
Web address: www.iecaonline.org
The Infinite Mind: Public radio’s national health and science program produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media. The weekly radio series focuses on all aspects of mental health, neuroscience, access to care, treatment advance, and the mind/body connection.
Web address: http://lcmedia.com/mindprgm.htm.
MindZone: Cope, Care, Deal: A mental health Web site for teens, developed and funded by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, this interactive and age-appropriate site offers direct guidance for struggling teens.
Web address: www.copecaredeal.org
NARSAD, The Mental Health Research Association: an independent, nonprofit organization that raises and distributes funds for scientific research on psychiatric brain disorders, committed to finding the causes, improved treatments, and cures for mental health disorders.
Web address: www.narsad.org
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)—Child and Adolescent Action Center: the nation’s largest grassroots, self-help, and family advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses. NAMI offers a wide variety of resources, including NAMI’s quarterly publication, NAMI Beginnings, addressing issues related to children and youth with mental illness.
Web address: www.nami.org
National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs: a national resource for programs and professionals assisting young people with emotional and behavioral problems. Web site provides a current directory of programs and schools.
Web address: www.natsap.org
National Hopeline Network: 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) offers a national network of 162 certified crisis centers operating throughout the United States twenty-four hours a day. It is a program of the Kristin Brooks Hope Center, which publishes Preventing Suicide: The National Journal.
Web address: www.hopeline.com.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): conducts research into mental illness and is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, offering pamphlets and literature about adolescent depression.
Web address: www.nimh.nih.gov
National Mental Health Association (NMHA): a national advocacy, education, and support organization working to address the needs of people with mental health-related needs and mental illnesses. Web site contains valuable references and a database by region of mental health practitioners. NMHA also features Mpower—Musicians for Mental Health, a Web site specifically targeted to teens and young adults and offers good resources for college students and administrators.
Web address: www.nmha.org; www.mpower.org
National Mental Health Awareness Campaign: a nationwide nonpartisan public education campaign offering a youth outre
ach program of speakers and events.
Web address: www.nostigma.org
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: providing immediate assistance to individuals in suicidal crisis by connecting them to the nearest available suicide prevention and mental health service provider through a toll-free telephone number: 1-800-273-TALK (8255). It is the only national suicide prevention and intervention telephone resource funded by the federal government.
Web address: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center: a “one-stop shop” for information on youth violence prevention, including suicide and self-harm, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. 1-866-SAFEYOUTH.
Web address: www.safeyouth.org
New York University Child Study Center: AboutOurKids library offers a web-based resource guide to the NYU Child Study Center offering articles and publications developed by the faculty for families and parents of depressed children.
Web address: www.aboutourkids.org.
ParentsMedGuide: the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in collaboration with child mental health organizations, Web site dedicated to helping patients, families, and physicians make informed decisions about obtaining and administering the most appropriate care for a child or young person with depression.
Web address: www.parentsmedguide.org
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS): the federal government’s comprehensive source for child, adolescent, and family resources.
Web address: www.mentalhealth.org/cmhs/ChildrensCampaign/default.asp
Suicide Prevention Action Networks: SPAN USA affiliates and volunteer organizers of all ages work to promote and advance suicide prevention. Community organizers work to raise awareness about suicide in their communities and communicate with their local, state, and federal policy makers to advocate for suicide prevention.
Web address: www.spanusa.org
Suicide Prevention Resource Center: SPRC provides prevention support, training, and resources to assist organizations and individuals to develop suicide prevention programs, interventions and policies, and to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
Web address: www.sprc.org
TeenScreen®: TeenScreen Program and the Positive Action for Teen Health (PATH) initiative creates partnerships with communities across the nation to implement early-identification programs for suicide and mental illness and promotes the benefits of mental health screening for adolescents nationwide.
Web address: www.teenscreen.org
ULifeline.org: an online behavioral support system for young adults created by the Jed Foundation and offering college-age students with links to their respective colleges’ mental health centers.
Web address: www.ulifeline.org
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS—formerly HCFA): CMS administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) programs for children with mental illnesses.
Web address: www.cms.hhs.gov
YellowRibbon.org: a web-and community-based comprehensive suicide prevention program offering teens peer-to-peer advice online through a team of nonprofessionals, ages thirteen and older.
Web address: www.yellowribbon.org; www.teenadviceonline.org
Youth America Hotline: affiliated with the National Hopeline Network, operates the Youth America Hotline at 1-877-968-8454, offering trained, teen-to-teen peer crisis counseling.
Web address: www.youthline.org
SUGGESTED READING AND REFERENCES
Depression, General (Clinical guidance and memoir)
DePaulo, J. Raymond, Jr. Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.
Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Kramer, Peter D. Against Depression. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2001.
Slater, Lauren. Prozac Diary. New York: Random House, 1998.
Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. New York: Random House, 1990.
Depression (Child and Adolescent)
Berlinger, Norman T. Rescuing Your Teenager from Depression. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Copans, Stuart and Copeland, Mary Ellen. Recovering from Depression: A Workbook for Teens. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Co., 2002.
Day for Night: Recognizing Teenage Depression©. Video sponsored by Depression & Related Affective Disorders Association (DRADA), in cooperation with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Vanderpool Films, 1999. To order call 410-955-4647.
Duckworth, Kenneth and Gruttadaro, Darcy. What Families Should Know About Adolescent Depression and Treatment Options: A Family Guide. Washington, D.C.: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Arlington, Virginia, 2005. Available online at www.nami.org.
Empfield, Maureen and Bakalar, Nicholas. Understanding Teen Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment and Management. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2001.
Fassler, David G. and Dumas, Lynne S. “Help Me, I’m Sad:” Recognizing, Treating and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997.
Fristad, Mary A. and Arnold, Jill S. Raising a Moody Child: How to Cope with Depression and Bipolar Disorder. New York: Guilford Press, 2004.
Koplewicz, Harold. More Than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 2002.
Levenkron, Steven. Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.
McCormick, Patricia. Cut. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 2000.
Mondimore, Francis M. Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Raeburn, Paul. Acquainted with the Night: A Parent’s Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Fink, Max. Electroshock: Restoring the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Manning, Martha. Undercurrents: A Therapist’s Reckoning with Her Own Depression. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
Neurobiology (Adolescent)
Strauch, Barbara. The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
PBS Documentary series FRONTLINE: “Inside the Teenage Brain.” Original air-date January 31, 2002.
Neurobiology
Broks, Paul. Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.
Psychiatric Medication
Barondes, Samuel H. Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Kramer, Peter D. Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self. New York: Viking, 1993.
ParentsMedGuide, a web-based resource published by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association, 2005. www.parentsmedguide.org.
Society, Mental Health, and Adolescence
Barber, Charles. Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Currie, Elliot. The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004.
Dudman, Martha Tod. Augusta, Gone: A True Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Finnegan, William. Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country. New York: Random House, 1998.
Hersch, Patricia. A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence. New York: Balla
ntine Publishing Group, 1998.
Hine, Thomas. The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager: A New History of the American Adolescent Experience. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999.
Hymowitz, Kay S. Liberation’s Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003.
Kadison, Richard D. and DiGeronimo, Theresa Foy. College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It. Hoboken, New Jersey: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
Kindlon, Dan and Thompson, Michael. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.
Marcus, David L. What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
Pipher, Mary, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1994.
Pollack, William. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 1998.
Shaw, Robert. The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children. New York: ReganBooks, 2003.
Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Young People
Maran, Meredith. Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
Zailckas, Koren. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood. New York: Viking Adult, 2005.
Suicide
Blauner, Susan Rose. How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person’s Guide to Suicide Prevention. New York: William Morrow & Company, 2002.
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