Parenting Well When You're Depressed: A Complete Resource for Maintaining a Healthy Family

Jonathan C. Clayfield, Susan M. Phillips

New Harbinger Publications Incorporated, Jan 1, 2001 - Family & Relationships - 226 pages

Parenting Well When You're Depressed is a unique guide, based on more than ten years of research on depressed parents and their families. Psychologist Joanne Nicholson and her colleagues provide a complete tool kit of strategies and action plans for anyone trying to be the best parent he or she can be while struggling with depression.

About the author

Nicholson has been a clinical and research psychologist for over twenty years. She is Associate Porfessor in Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Associate Director of the UMMS Center for Mental Health Services Research, where she directs the Child and Family Research Core. Nicholson has established an active, client-based program of research on parents with mental illness and their families. She writes extensively on the challenges facing these families, and provides training and consultation to professional and consumer groups.

Clayfield is a project coordinator at the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is a licensed mental health counselor with considerable experience in community-based mental health treatment programs as well as in the psychiatric rehabilitation clubhouse environment. Clayfield provides technical assistance and consultation to agencies interested in establishing support programs for parents with psychiatric disabilities and has presented workshops on supporting parents with psychiatric disabilities and has presented workshops on supporting parents with psychiatric disabilities at local and national conferences.

Phillips is a research coordinator at the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has extensive experience training and supporting individuals with psychiatric disabilities to work as research assistants at the Center.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Parenting Well When You're Depressed: A Complete Resource for Maintaining a Healthy Family; Early English books online; Unassigned Series
• Authors: Jonathan C. Clayfield, Susan M. Phillips
• Editor: Joanne Nicholson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Incorporated, 2001
• ISBN: 1572242515, 9781572242517
• Length: 226 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Psychology / General