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You are not alone : for parents and caregivers : [the NAMI guide to navigating your child's mental health]  Cover Image Book Book

You are not alone : for parents and caregivers : [the NAMI guide to navigating your child's mental health] / Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH.

Summary:

In You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers, child psychiatrist and NAMI's Associate Medical Director Dr. Christine M. Crawford provides a comprehensive, compassionate, and practical resource for anyone concerned about a child's mental health. Drawing on her own clinical experience and guidance from leading experts, Dr. Crawford provides a lens through which to understand the many complex factors affecting children's mental health. Analyzing young people from preschool to high school, she shares insights into how mental health conditions may manifest at different ages, what kind of interventions may be necessary, and what to do to help kids thrive. Throughout, the book channels the collective wisdom of the NAMI community. Parents, caregivers, and young people themselves share personal stories about their paths to recovery, ensuring readers know that they are not alone.-- Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781638930808
  • ISBN: 1638930805
  • Physical Description: xxviii, 401 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Zando, 2024

Content descriptions

General Note:
Portion of subtitle from cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-391) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword by Ken Duckworth, MD, Chief Medical Officer of NAMI, and Daniel H. Gillison Jr., CEO of NAMI -- Introduction -- Author's note -- Part I: How to think about your kid's mental health -- Part II: Exploring mental health conditions in children and adolescents -- Part III: Lessons from lived experience -- Acknowledgements -- Resources -- Index -- About the author.
Biographical or Historical Data:
Christine Crawford, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. Additionally, she's the Medical Director for the Boston Public Health Commission's School Based Clinician Program in which she provides direct guidance on how best to support the socio-emotional wellbeing of children within the Boston Public School System. She is also the Associate Medical Director for NAMI, having been hand-picked by Dr. Ken Duckworth, author of You Are Not Alone. On behalf of NAMI, she regularly engages with the public, as well as with organizations, companies, healthcare providers, and fellow clinicians and researchers. She is also a trusted source of child mental health expertise for major media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, the Boston Globe, NBC, and Medscape. She makes regular, on-camera appearances for the Today Show, Black News Channel, and local news affiliates of CBS, Fox, and ABC. She lives with her family in Boston, Massachusetts.
Subject: Child mental health > United States > 21st century.
Child psychiatry > Social aspects.
Adolescent psychiatry > Social aspects.
Parenting.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Erlanger Branch 618.9289 C899y 2024 (Text) 33126026832554 New Adult Nonfiction Available -


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