NAMI Ask the Expert: You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers – Expert Contributor Spotlight
NAMI Ask the Expert: You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers – Expert Contributor Spotlight
October 03, 2024
This webinar took place on October 17, 2024. The recording is available below. Registration for the event is now closed.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | 4 – 5:00 p.m. ET
Register today for the next NAMI Ask the Expert! On October 17, NAMI’s own Dr. Christine Crawford will be joined in conversation by child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre.
NAMI’s second book, “You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers,” is the essential guide to navigating a child’s mental health. Written by Dr. Christine Crawford, this book includes stories of lived experiences from parent advocates and information from experts, such as Dr. Blaise Aguirre.
During this Ask the Expert session, attendees will:
Listen to a Q&A with Dr. Aguirre
Learn about Dr. Aguirre’s area of specialization, dialectical behavior therapy and other treatments for borderline personality disorder and associated conditions
Hear about how and why Dr. Crawford chose to write NAMI’s second book
Reserve your spot today to join this conversation between Dr. Crawford – an author, in addition to being a psychiatrist, parent, assistant professor, and NAMI’s Associate Medical Director – and Dr. Aguirre, who specializes in child and adolescent psychiatrist.
We welcome your participation and invite you to submit questions for our guest expert through the webinar registration form.
Dr. Christine Crawford Associate Medical Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)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, she’s a psychiatry consultant for the Boston Public Health Commission’s School Based Health Centers where 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 general public, as well as with 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. She lives with her family in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Blaise Aguirre Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical SchoolBlaise Aguirre, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is a trainer in, and specializes in, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as well as other therapies such as mentalization-based treatment (MBT) in the treatment of borderline personality disorder and associated conditions. He has been a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital since 2000 and is nationally and internationally recognized for his extensive work in the treatment of mood and personality disorders in adolescents. He lectures regularly throughout the world. Dr. Aguirre is the author or co-author of nearly 20 books which have been translated into many languages. In his upcoming book: “I Hate Myself” he tackles the understanding of and treatment of self-hatred as a risk factor to suicidal ideation and behavior.
