Parent Resources

Jim Probert is a psychologist at the University of Florida Counseling and Wellness Center. He talks openly about his own lived experience of emotional...

Elayne Clift writes about women, health, politics and social issues from Saxtons River, Vermont. She has written extensively on issues relating to mental health, women, politics,...

Johanna Ryan is a workers’ comp paralegal and a union and healthcare activist in Chicago. She may or may not have a biological brain...

Pat Risser is an award-winning trainer, facilitator, speaker, author and consultant. He has been a human rights activist and mental health advocate for over...

Mark A. Radcliffe is the author of two novels; Gabriel's Angel (2010) and Stranger Than Kindness (2013), he is a long term columnist in...

The author has a BS in Biology/Health Science and went on to complete a professional post-graduate master's program and certification. While starting their career,...

NCMHR works to ensure that consumer/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care, mental health, and social policies at the...

Dennis D. Embry, PhD, was responsible for drafting the letter signed by 23 scientists, who collectively represent scores of randomized prevention trials of mental illnesses...

Dennis D. Embry is a prominent prevention scientist in the United States and Canada, trained as clinician and developmental and child psychologist. He is...

David N. Elkins, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a professor emeritus of psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine...

Mindpower: Auður will be blogging about her work in Iceland, as the director of the foundation of Hugarafl (Mindpower), as well as their goals...

Dion Zessin is a freelance psychiatric researcher and writer, and author of the book Codex Alternus: A Research Collection of Alternative and Complementary Treatments...

Patrick Landman, MD, is a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, lawyer, and Chairman of STOP DSM. His interests include how institutions — such as Institutional Psychotherapy — can be...

Sheryl Rose is a medical sociologist who has had a lengthy career as a health practitioner and policy consultant journeying from the remote jungles of Papua...

Stephen D. Shenfield is a semi-retired freelance translator and researcher. He and his wife live with their autistic daughter in Providence, RI. The family...

M.O.M.S: Cindi Fisher is founder of the organization M.O.M.S. She networks moms and others together to support each other in advocating for themselves or their...

David's posts focus on the Child Safeguarding issue of the over-prescription of a wide range of psychotropic drugs to children following dubious diagnoses of...

Elizabeth Hill has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She is currently revising a novel based on her journey through madness and the...

Alesandra Rain is an author and prescription drug expert for the O-Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel and ABC, lectures worldwide and is frequently a...

Tracey Libby specializes in the management of pain, chronic illness and mindbody health. Tracey also sees clients struggling with other life issues and transitions...

Lucy Costa is deputy executive director of a non-profit service user rights-based organization in Toronto, Canada. She works as an advocate promoting the rights...

Jim Maddock is a retired teacher, co-founder of MindFreedom Ireland and co-author, with his wife Mary, of Soul Survivor - A Personal Encounter with...

David Hidajattoellah is an English/maths teacher, educational scientist, statistician and philologist in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I work as maths/statistics teacher, peer support teacher and senior researcher at...

Optimizing Children's Mental Health: Tabita Green writes about ways not only to prevent children's and teen's mental distress, but to optimize mental health. Centered...

Let’s face it, as our kids slowly developing brains wrestle with behavioral and maturity issues while also trying to juggle expectations related to academic and social challenges, some of the behaviors they display can be quite concerning. Understandably, after trying what seems like everything in the books plus the kitchen, bathroom and laundry room sinks, caring and often exhausted parents are actively looking for help, resources and answers. But guess what? Without any need for pharmaceutical intervention or “drug therapy,” for centuries parents have been quite capable of helping challenged children overcome semi-annoying and concerning behaviors that some “experts” want to label today as symptoms of a mental disorder. Behaviors that a billion kids worldwide display every day.