Topic: Children with a Parent Living with Mental Illness
We are very pleased to have special guest, JoAnne Nicholson, Ph.D., a national expert on children who have a parent living with mental illness and a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School on our November Children’s Conference Call with Dr. Ken Duckworth to discuss the challenges children who have a parent living with mental illness may have, programs that exist for them and what their needs are. This conference call is in response to the huge interest in this issue from NAMI members and we are excited for the opportunity to address this topic.
Friday children’s conference calls with Dr. Ken Duckworth, NAMI’s Medical Director and a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, take place on the third Friday of every month. The calls are toll free and are scheduled from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. E.T. To access the toll-free call, please dial 1-888-858-6021; access number 309918#. We hope that you will join us!
COMING TO PBS STATIONS IN OCTOBER
MINDS ON THE EDGE: Facing Mental Illness zeros in on wrenching situations playing out every day in hospital ERs, on city streets and school campuses, in courtrooms and in jails, as Americans struggle with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The dramatic scenario of this Fred Friendly Seminars program reveals personal dilemmas facing individuals and families, medical practices that can be obstacles to treatment, and public polices that are falling short.
Moderated by Frank Sesno, the program features Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Nobel-Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Pete Earley, and other panelists from law, medicine, and public policy — including several who have personally faced the challenges of mental illness and offer their riveting insights.
Visit the Minds on the Edge Web site for TV schedule information
and multimedia content on serious mental illness.
If you missed the program on-air you can watch it online.
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