SAMHSA National Wellness Week, September 16-22
At PDAN, we are so proud of our online community. Our goal is to increase awareness and decrease stigma around personality disorders. We work hard to provide a safe space for you to find advice, infor ...
Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is a form of mental health treatment. It involves the use of books to help children cope with changes, emotional problems, or mental problems. (Pardek, 1994) Bibliotherapy includes bo ...
There’s no such thing as a bad kid in these Spokane, WA, trauma-informed elementary schools
August 20, 2013 By jestevens
What’s a trauma-informed school? It’s a place where this happens:
There’s this third-grade kid. Let’s call him Sam. He’s got ODD (oppositional defiant disorder…a m …
5 Major Mental Illnesses Traced to Same Genetic Variations
By TRACI PEDERSEN Associate News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on August 19, 2013
Five major mental illnesses — depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia and autism — are traceab …
Announcing the “Umbrella for Alex” Giveaway Winner!
We had many entries for the PDAN book "An Umbrella for Alex"! This book is about a child whose mother has abrupt mood swings, and how he learns to understand the changes and cope with them. We greatly ...
Down the Center’s First FREE GIVEAWAY
PDAN has recently partnered with Down the Center to offer a very exciting giveaway. To win a free copy of An Umbrella for Alex, join the contest now! You can gain entries by tweeting about the gi ...
Literature-based social intervention used by parents to help children struggling with social issues
A new study out of the University of Cincinnati not only finds that parents feel responsible for taking action when their children struggle with social issues, but also that parents are influenced by …
The Trauma of Being Alive
MARK EPSTEIN August 3, 2013 Talking with my 88-year-old mother, four and a half years after my father died from a brain tumor, I was surprised to hear her questioning herself. “You’d think I would ...
Her by Felicia Johnson
We reviewed Atlanta author Felicia Johnson's recent novel, Her, about a teenage girl coming to terms with her diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. This book could be very helpful to those wi ...
Don’t Call Me Crazy!
Have you been keeping up with the new BBC series on the teenage mental health unit in Manchester? Don't Call Me Crazy follows a group of teenagers with their various disorders. Some kids are just s ...