Handbook of preschool mental health: Development, disorders, and treatment

Handbook of preschool mental health: Development, disorders, and treatment is a guide to exploring the development of psychiatric disorders in 2- to 6-year-olds. Edited by a professor of psychiatry, this updated edition contains:
*Many new authors; extensively revised with the latest research and empirically supported treatments.
*Heightened focus on brain development and the neural correlates of disorders.
*Section on risk and resilience, including chapters on sensitive periods of development and the early environment.
*Chapters on parent-child interaction therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapies, attachment-based therapies, and translational approaches to early intervention.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Parenting through the storm : find help, hope, and strength when your child has psychological problems

Parenting through the storm: Find help, hope, and strength when your child has psychological problems is a 278-page resource for parents who are raising children with mental health concerns. Written by an award-winning parenting author, this book offers strategies, tips, and stories from other parents who have been through it and survived.

This book is broken out into five parts. Part one is entitled, The Challenge and Your Child, discussing the "parent radar," obtaining a diagnosis, starting treatment, and advocating for your child. Part two, "You and Your Child," covers stress management and coping skills, making a difference for your child, and calming the raging storm. Part three offers suggestions on caring for the rest of the family, while part four looks at finding support in your child's school and in the community. Part five offers hope for recovery and beyond.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find this book in a library near you.

FSSA Resource Guide

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration has put together a resource guide of services in the state containing information about programs provided and administered by FSSA.  The guide also gives direction on how Hoosiers qualify to receive state assistance from a variety of programs including:

• Early Care & Education

• Employment

• Financial Services

• Food / Nutrition

• Health Coverage

• Home- & Community-Based Services for the Aged, Blind and Disabled

• Mental Health / Addictions

• Transportation

• Housing

The guide can be found in its entirety at:

http://www.in.gov/fssa/files/FSSA_Resource_Guide.pdf

May is mental health awareness month

May is national mental health awareness month. According to the Centers for Disease Control about 1 in 4 Americans is currently living with mental illness. This is significant not only for the mental illnesses themselves but also for the oftentimes secondary factors that can accompany them such as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity: http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealthsurveillance/

Many organizations are trying to bring about change in the way that mental illness is identified and supported. Here are just a few:

http://www.changedirection.org/
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/may
http://www.mentalhealth.gov/
https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Raise-Awareness/Awareness-Events/Mental-Health-Month

http://blog.samhsa.gov/2015/05/01/national-mental-health-awareness-month-2015/

Actors wanted

Love the arts and want to be an actor in a play? The only qualifications you need for this play is to be utilizing mental health services. No other experience is necessary.

Nobody Needs to Know is a forty minute, one act play about mental illness, stigma and recovery. The Casting Call is at 1pm on Saturday, March 28th, and 1pm on Saturday April 4th, 2015 at Irvington United Methodist Church, 30 N Audubon Rd, on the near south east side of Indianapolis.

To learn more about it, please visit:
http://www.artsworkindiana.org/index.php?pageId=95&newsId=218

The Teenage Brain

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor Presents

The Teenage Brain

Tuesday, April 30th 

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. 

Bloomington North High School

Sponsored by NAMI Greater Bloomington Area

For more information, please visit: 

http://www.namibloomington.org/whats_been_said.html

Mental Health and Employment Support

"Employment is the highest priority for many people with severe mental illness and it is a central aspect of recovery." So begins the book description of Individual Placement and Support: An Evidence-Based Approach to Supported Employment, a book that is written for professionals and researchers working with those with psychiatric disabilities and those in mental health and social service settings.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Children's Mental Health Training Institutes

The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development is offering Training Institutes on improving mental health services for children, adolescents, and young adults with or at risk for mental health challenges and their families. The biennial Training Institutes are co-sponsered The Annie E. Casey Foundation and are designed for a variety of individuals including state, tribal, territorial, and local administrators, planners, providers, clinicians, care managers, families, youth, advocates, managed care organizations, educators, evaluators, technical assistance providers, and others concerned with improving services for children, youth, and families.

Want more information? Visit: http://gucchdtacenter.georgetown.edu/Activities/TrainingInstitutes/index.html

MOSAIC Presents A Diversity Film Festival

Bloomington, IN – The City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department’s Diversity Theater presents MOSAIC: A Diversity Film Festival. The festival’s main event is a showing of Joe Pantoliano’s “No Kidding! Me 2!” at 1 p.m. on May 12 at the Monroe County Public Library. The showing is part of Mental Health Month and will be followed by a discussion from 2:25 to 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

“No Kidding! Me 2!” is Pantoliano’s (The Sopranos, Memento, and The Matrix) documentary directorial debut and was created as part of his fight against the stigma of mental illness. According to Mental Health America, one in four Americans live with a diagnosable and treatable mental illness. Diversity Theater is sponsoring the event with Mental Health America and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Facilitators will be Gates Agnew, a retired clinical social worker, and Jane McLeod, president of Mental Health America.

Diversity Theater exists to increase awareness of discrimination and inequality based on race, ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation, aging and homelessness.

The MOSAIC film festival is sponsored by the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department in conjunction with the Monroe County Public Library, Mental Health America Monroe County, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Indiana University Office of Multicultural Initiatives.

For more information, please contact:
Nancy Woolery, 349.3851 or wooleryn@bloomington.in.gov
Audrey Heller, 336.3198 or hellera@indiana.edu

24th Annual Children’s Mental Health Research and Policy Conference

Sunday - Wednesday

March 20 - 23, 2011

Hyatt Regency ~ Tampa, Florida

Registration rates for the 24th Annual Children’s Mental Health Research & Policy Conference include participation in the plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, poster presentations, and networking luncheon along with all conference materials.

MEET OUR KEYNOTE
In his 20-plus years with Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc., Geoffrey Canada has become nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform.

To register and for more information, go to: http://cmhtampaconference.usf.edu/home/registration/

American folk art

Artwork by and on behalf of individuals who have mental illnesses will be the subject of a display at City Hall during the month of July. The theme of the artwork on display is “This land is our land…American folk art” and includes a variety of subjects, such as landscapes and cityscapes, using a variety of media including decoupage, paint, ceramic and textile. A public reception will take place Thursday, July 15 from 4 to 5:30 pm.

The exhibit will run July 2—30 in the City Hall atrium, which is located in the building's main entrance at 401 North Morton Street. The exhibition hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday, as well as additional evening or weekend hours when City Hall is open for meetings. For more information about the exhibit, contact Robin Carrothers at robin.carrothers@centerstone.org

The City of Bloomington is committed to providing opportunities for Bloomington and area artists to exhibit artwork in the City Hall Atrium. For more information on the exhibition program, contact Miah Michaelsen, the City's Assistant Economic Development Director for the Arts, at or (812) 349-3534.

Trainings in Mental Health

The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development is announcing trainings on local systems of care for children and adolescents with or at risk for mental health challenges and their families.

The trainings will be held in Washington, DC from July 14 - 18, 2010. The intent of the Institutes is to provide in-depth, practical information on how to develop, operate, and sustain systems of care and how to provide high-quality, effective clinical interventions and supports within them.

For more information on these trainings and to register, go to: gucchd.georgetown.edu/training/88504.html

Still no power

Hello, we are still without power, but hopeful that we will be able to reopen tomorrow morning! In the mean time, check out this recent story at NPR on a new diagnosis for children who would have been labeled as having bipolar disorder in the past.

Georgetown Conference Call Series

The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, under Georgetown University's Center for Child and Human Development, will host a series of teleconferences this year on "cover important and emerging trends in the mental health field." Each month's conference will cover a unique topic.

The first, scheduled for 1pm EST on January 20th, will center on "The status of children's mental health policy in the US." It will be facilitated by Jim Wotring, with presenters Gary Blau and Larke Huang of SAMHSA.

To register and see the full year's calendar of calls, visit http://gucchdtacenter.georgetown.edu/resources/2010calls.html.

Mental Health Parity Act

Whether the proposed federal health plan goes through or not, US citizens will reap the benefits of a health insurance law passed by Congress last year: the Mental Health Parity Act. As of January 1st, 2010, all insurance plans covering more than fifty people will be required to provide the same amount of service for mental health as they do for physical. This helps ensure that individuals with depression, bipolar disorder etc. have equal access to care.

Make sure to review your insurers new regulations for 2010 to see how the changes will affect you, your charges and family members. Visit the New York Times article for a summary of the pros and cons of the new law. For more resources on mental health, look through our previous posts on the subject.

Mental Health Month

May is Mental Health Month, and this year is the celebration of 100 years of support and education for individuals with mental health conditions. Check out more information at Mental Health America.

Looking for an interesting resource regarding this topic? Inside Outside: Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital is a film depicting the lives of eight people as they transition from nursing homes to psychiatric hospitals into the community. This film carries an encouraging message of possibility, recovery, and success.

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Conference on mental health

A one-day conference on the topic of “Bringing Worlds Together ID: MH (Intellectual Disabilities: Mental Health)” will take place in Indianapolis on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. The conference is being presented by Meridian Services in association with NADD-An association for persons with developmental disabilities and mental health needs.

Two keynote presentations are planned: Lauren Charlot, PhD., will speak on “Medical Problems that May Present as Acute Psychiatric Disorders” and Edwin Mikkelsen, MD, will speak on “Pathways to and from Polypharmacy.” This will be followed by six concurrent sessions on topics that include community collaboration, crises, individual supportive therapy, trauma treatment, assessment of risk, and mood disorders in people with ID.

Online registration will be available in late April. For more information, go to http://www.thenadd.org/

The Gift of Adult ADD

The Gift of Adult ADD: How to Transform Your Challenge & Build on Your Strengths by Lara Honos-Webb, PH.D offers a new approach on how to transform symptoms into strengths. This guidebook show readers how to use their ADD to improve their parenting skills, relationships and work lives. It also includes inspiring stories of people with ADD who have become successful by focusing on their strengths instead of on their weaknesses. This book offers positive and inspiring strategies of how to have a better overall quality of life.

Interested in this book and live in Indiana?

If not, check to see if your local library has it in WorldCat.

I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here: A Breakthrough Approach to Understand Someone Living with Alzheimer's by John Zeisel focuses on connecting with individuals that have Alzheimer's and learning to look at different aspects of their abilities that don't diminish over time. For example, listening to music or viewing art allows individuals to use parts of their brain that still function well. Zeisel also reveals that certain symptoms expressed by the individual with Alzheimer's are not symptoms of the disease but rather a person's reaction to what he calls the "four A's." Agitation, anxiety, aggression and apathy. He shows how caregiver's can have a vibrant and meaningful relationship with individuals that have the disease to have a better quality of life.

Hidden Disabilities

Hidden Disability Coalition, now called the Bloomington Association of People with Hidden Disabilities, is having their monthly meeting at Monroe County Public Library, meeting room 1A on Thursday, February 26 at 4:00pm.
This month they will be discussing stigma and discrimination. "Hidden Disability" covers areas of disabilities that are not always apparent or visible.