Acknowledgments

The Experience Journal was created under the direction of Drs. David Ray DeMaso and Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, who are child and adolescent psychiatrists in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Together with Dr. Joseph E. Nyre, a child and adolescent psychologist at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, they have created the Depression Experience Journal for families facing childhood and adolescent depression. Content for the Depression Experience Journal was collected by Emily Baum, the Project Coordinator.

The Depression Experience Journal was developed and implemented with support from the Sidney A. Swensrud Foundation. Past support for the Experience Journal has come from the Fleet National Bank, Trustee of the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory Inc., Cambridge, and Tellalbs Foundation.

We thank Dr. William Beardslee, Academic Chairman at Children's Hospital Boston and the Gardner A. Monks Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, for allowing excerpts from his book, When a Parent is Depressed: When a Parent Is Depressed, Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family (published by Little, Brown and Company, 2002) to appear on this web site. We also thank the Harvard Graduate School of Education for contributing video clips from Dr. Beardslee’s October 20, 2002 Askwith Education Forum presentation.

The Depression Experience Journal would not have been possible without the enthusiasm and dedication of Rachel Amgott, Elizabeth Colton, Lara Kay, Erin Kelley, and Dayna Miller. The video clips of clinicians that appear throughout the web site. were created with the help of Ariel Botta, Marcus Cherry, Eugene D’Angelo, Stuart Goldman, Nadja Reilly, and Caroline Watts. We are also indebted to Nancy Anthony, Rick Bourne, Beth Donegan, Susan Hecht, Kelli Nyre, Christine Rich, and Elizabeth Wharff as well as all of the families who contributed to the Depression Experience Journal.

The video clips were produced and/or edited by Marcella Hoekstra. This web site was designed by Meghan Toczko.