The Staglin Music Festival for Mental Health
http://www.music-festival.org/

The Clinical Neuroscience Lab of Dr. Tyrone Cannon
http://www.cannonlab.psych.ucla.edu/

The Portland Identification and Early Referral Program (PIER)
www.preventmentalillness.org

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
www.nami.org

National Institute of Mental Health
www.nimh.nih.gov

Mental Health Research Association
www.narsad.org

Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
www.bpkids.org

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
www.samhsa.gov

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
www.aacap.org

Physician’s Desk Reference
www.pdr.net

www.schizophrenia.com

Other Research Clinics at UCLA

The UCLA Aftercare Research Program
Treats individuals between the ages of 18 and 45 who have had a recent first episode of psychosis. Treatment includes individual case management, group therapy, intensive support in returning to work and/or school, and the antipsychotic medication risperidone.
http://www.schizophrenia.ucla.edu/aftercare/

The UCLA Early Onset Schizophrenia Program
Works with individuals between the ages of 6 and 17 who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
http://www.npi.ucla.edu/familystudy

The UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program
Treats adults with bipolar disorder, major depression, schizoaffective disorder, dysthymic disorder, and minor depression.
http://www.semel.ucla.edu/uclamdrp/

UCLA Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Research Program
http://www.semel.ucla.edu/adc/behavioralanxietyprogram.htm

UCLA S.A.F.E.T.Y. Program
Works with adolescents who have presented to the emergency room with a suicide attempt. This three-month program provides individual/family therapy and case management.
http://www.hsrcenter.ucla.edu/research/safeyouth.shtml

Recommended Readings

Parenting Teenagers: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens (STEP)
By Don Dinkmeyer Sr.; Gary D. McKay; Joyce L. McKay; Don Dinkmeyer, Jr.

Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers
By Michael Riera

Staying Connected to your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They’re Really Saying
By Michael Riera

Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action
By A. Rae Simpson
Copies available online at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/parenting

Stop Negotiating with your Teen: Strategies for Parenting your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent
By Janet Sasson Edgette

Coping with Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families
By Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich

Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manuel
By E. Fuller Torrey

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know
By David J. Miklowitz

Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach
By David Miklowitz and Michael J. Goldstein

An Unquiet Mind
By Kay Redfield Jamison