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The Best Kids’ Books on Mental Health of 2024

Child Mind Intitute

Clinicians at the Child Mind Institute specializing in conditions that include anxiety, depression, and autism reviewed more than 60 titles that were published in 2024 to compile our inaugural annual list of the best kids’ books for mental health. After the monster expresses his fears to readers (What if I miss the bus?

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Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother

Mad in America

In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects , interviews her mother, Dee Barbash, to discuss the circumstances that led to Brooke being prescribed a cocktail of antidepressants at the age of 15. It was a little different for me because I was 15. in psychology.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.