Organizations Providing Support and/or Information
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Assisting parents and families in understanding developmental, behavioral, emotional and mental disorders affecting children and adolescents.
Bipolar Disorders Center This center has been created especially for parents of a child with a bipolar disorder and for adolescents with bipolar disorders.
Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation The Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF) is a parent-led, not-for-profit, web-based membership organization of families raising children diagnosed with, or at risk for, early-onset bipolar disorder.
Family Guide to Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). A public education Web site, developed to support the efforts of parents and other caring adults to promote mental health and prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs among 7- to 18-year-olds.
Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation raises and distributes funds for the most promising research into the causes, treatments and prevention of early-onset bipolar disorder. The JBRF is the first charitable foundation devoted solely to support research in childhood-onset bipolar disorder.
Not MY Kid Not MY Kid, Inc. is dedicated to raising awareness about the most prevalant youth and adolescent mental health and behavioral health issues. Click the link for "Depression" to go to the "Depression and Bipolar Disorder" information page.
Teen New Horizons Teen New Horizons is committed to teen and family healing. We are a group of families who have experienced the same type of family struggles and issues with their teens that brought you to this website. Our families come from all walks of life. We are committed to helping families with teens who are struggling in life. This website is designed to help you evaluate your situation and to provide you with one stop comprehensive information about options available to your family and struggling teen.
Private Support and Information Sites
Alice's Garden Support and information for parents of children with depression
BiPolar Children And Teens Homepage A page for finding information to help parents deal with BiPolar Disorder in their Children and Teens
IEP_Guide Special education support group with free IEP guide.
MomsAndDadsAtHome.com This site is dedicated to being the very best place to come for parents, family, educators, friends, anyone who is living with, around or knows someone who has been afflicted with ADHD and/or Bipolar. We are here to provide life stories, helpful resources, support, answers to commonly and frequently asked questions. We care! We also offer resources for those of us who have found it necessary to work from home. Information and links to work at home, stay at home, home based business, business opportunities.
NAMI Child & Adolescent Action Center Working to focus attention on the critical need for systems reform and to support communities and families. Our goal is to build and support our grassroots advocacy to ensure an expanded systems reform agenda at every level of government.
Parenting a Bipolar Child -- a Mother's Thoughts On the CABF web site
Parenting Bipolar Children This website was set up BY parents and caregivers FOR parents and caregivers of children with bipolar disorder, mental illness, emotional problems, behavioral problems, troubled teens
Here, you will find links for anything and everything related to Education Issues (IDEA, IEP assistance), Child Advocacy, Organizations, the latest Articles, Research and research programs, Med Info; Treatment Alternatives for Bipolar Children, help in Finding a Doctor, all the way to Creativity and the Bipolar mind.
Parenting Bipolars The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child. A survival guide for parents.
Treatment for Early Age Mania Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. A study on how well three medications work in making your bipolar child feel better.
Books and Articles
An exchange of letters related to the debate about mania and ADHD From the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, May 1999. Reproduced here by permission of Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Bipolar Child This site promotes the authors' new book and assembles much valuable information of interest to parents of children having bipolar disorder. Of special interest is a model IEP (individual education plan) for a bipolar child. The book is The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder. By Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos
CABF eBulletin Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation.
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder An Update from the National Institute of Mental Health
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder On the NAMI web site. By Demitri Papolos, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder: A Review of the Past 10 Years By Barbara Geller, M.D. and Joan Luby, M.D. From the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1997.
Childhood-onset Bipolar Disorder: Under-diagnosed, Under-treated and Under Discussion By Demitri F. Papolos, M.D. NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) Research Newsletter.
Complex and Rapid Cycling in Bipolar Children and Adolescents: A Preliminary Study By Barbara Geller, M.D., Kai Sun, Ph.D., Betsy Zimerman, M.A., Joan Luby, M.D., Jeanne Frazier, B.S.N., Marlene Williams, R.N.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents By Mary Beth Cogan. Psychiatric Times, May 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 5.
Difficulty of Diagnosing ADHD and Bipolar Disorder in Children By Anne Brown. NARSAD Research Newsletter.
Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents By Anne Brown. NARSAD Research Newsletter.
Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Resolved: Mania Is Mistaken for ADHD in Prepubertal Children A debate sponsored by the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in October 1998.
Roundtable on Prepubertal Bipolar Disorder On April 27, 2000, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Developmental Psychopathology and Prevention Research Branch, in collaboration with the Child and Adolescent Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch, convened a small roundtable meeting to discuss possible approaches to outstanding issues for research on prepubertal bipolar disorder.
www.BPChildren.com Our mission is to help the bipolar child and people in their world to understand this illness. Our booklets provide knowledge to the mind, courage to the heart and hope to the spirit. We believe that education happens a little at a time. We're just trying to help it along a bit!
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