Parent Resources

Based on his lived experience, Ron Bassman describes his efforts to create an educational and support program that links families with survivors.

An analysis of the huge increase in drugs for children, the role of Big Pharma, and a look at the impact on families and communities.

Surveillance exacerbates anxiety, destroys trust in relationships, and diverts money away from effective treatment.

This is the story of Chandra and her daughter Sophia (not their real names), who has been in the mental health system since the age of 10.

Supporting a Child, Teen, or Young Person in Crisis - Our guest panel, Ciara Fanlo, Morna Murray and Sami Timimi join host Amy Biancolli to share stories of crisis but also stories of healing and of hope.

We have two guests today. One is Susan Swim, executive director of the Now I See A Person Institute, which she created in 2007...

Reduced brain volumes due to SSRI exposure in pregnancy was not explained by maternal depression alone.

Being re-grounded in my community reminds me that mourning and love are inseparable, and that “nothing about us, is for us, without us.”

ADHD is a disaster area, in terms of the diagnosis, clinical research, and the harms inflicted on hundreds of millions of healthy people.

I needed to teach my nervous system, via different types of neuromuscular reeducation, that it was safe to move again. Before I could walk, I had to crawl, literally.

Peter Gøtzsche discusses the results of the MTA study on ADHD drugs and the misleading statements textbooks make about ADHD treatment.

Researchers find that SSRIs increase suicide attempts up to age 24, and have no preventative effect at any age, even for those at high risk of suicide.

An advocate in the psychiatric realm is a key witness for the patient and his or her experience, and carries a weight that the doctor cannot easily ignore.

Peter Gøtzsche discusses the broadening of ADHD diagnostic criteria and the misleading and biased stimulant drug trials.

The Lexapro study is marketing dressed up as science. It represents a flagrant abuse of ethics, deceiving readers at the cost of children's lives.

Response and remission rates were the same in the drug versus placebo groups, and Lexapro increased suicidality sixfold.

For many caregivers who assist their loved ones, the journey involves navigating the medical system and its many challenges. This time, the journey takes...

I’ll never forget standing beside my sister Lucy as she was strapped to a gurney during a midnight admission to an E.R. in Cambridge, Mass.

James Greenblatt is an innovator and longtime authority in the fields of integrative medicine and functional psychiatry, focusing on nutrition and other natural modes...

Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Nandita Chaudhary about children’s lives across cultures, the problems with global aid agencies and their interventions, psychology’s bias in the study of children, the limits of attachment theory and more.

We all want to help our kids or our students, and sometimes finding the right key to unlock a child’s gifts is a matter of time, patience, trial, and error.

Researchers have again and again demonstrated that depression pills double suicides both in children and adults.

The poster-children of psychiatric genetics, who endured abuse throughout their lives, were also the product of a racist culture.

My guardian decided to seek out “professional” advice about how to diminish my “outbursts.” I was perceived as a problem that needed to be extinguished into a compliant state.

As family support people for those caught in the mental health system, our job is to mitigate as much of the trauma as we can.