The perfect follow-up to “You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health,” “You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health” is the resource for every trusted adult helping a child or young adult manage their mental health.
In You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers, child psychiatrist and NAMI’s Associate Medical Director Dr. Christine 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.
NAMI Associate Medical Director, Dr. Christine Crawford, on the TODAY Show, where she reveals helpful tips about children and mental health for parents and caregivers as part of Mental Illness Awareness Week.
Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH is the associate medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) which is the country’s largest grassroots mental health organization. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair of Education at the Boston University School of Medicine.
She also provides outpatient psychiatric care to children and adolescents at Boston Medical Center. Additionally, Dr. Crawford serves as a psychiatry consultant for the Boston Public Health Commission’s School Based Clinician Program in which she provides direct guidance on how best to support the socioemotional wellbeing of children within the Boston Public School System.
On behalf of NAMI, she regularly engages with the public, organizations, companies, healthcare providers, and fellow clinicians and researchers. She is 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 has made on-camera appearances for the Today Show, BBC, and local news affiliates of CBS, Fox, and ABC.
You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers can be purchased at major book retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Target.
Yes, if you need to purchase more than 25 copies, you can do so through our bulk retailer, Porchlight. For bulk purchases—such as for support groups, organizations, or events—we suggest contacting Dan Brouchoud from Porchlight via email at [email protected] or by phone at 414-220-4451. Porchlight offers tiered discounted rates based on quantity.
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NAMI HelpLine is available M-F, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ET. Call 800-950-6264,
text “helpline” to 62640, or chat online. In a crisis, call or text 988 (24/7).