Suggested Readings and References

Gail has developed the following list of reading recommendations.

    Depression: Clinical Guidance & Memoirs

  • DePaulo, J. Raymond, Jr. Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.
  • Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. New York: Knopf, 1995.
  • Kramer, Peter D. Against Depression. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
  • Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2001.
  • Slater, Lauren. Prozac Diary. New York: Random House, 1998.
  • Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. New York: Random House, 1990.

    • Child & Adolescent Depression

  • Berlinger, Norman T. Rescuing Your Teenager from Depression. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
  • Copans, Stuart and Copeland, Mary Ellen. Recovering from Depression: A Workbook for Teens. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Co., 2002.
  • Day for Night: Recognizing Teenage Depression©. Video sponsored by Depression & Related Affective Disorders Association (DRADA), in cooperation with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Vanderpool Films, 1999. To order call 410-955-4647.
  • Duckworth, Kenneth and Gruttadaro, Darcy. What Families Should Know about Adolescent Depression and Treatment Options: A Family Guide. Washington, DC: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Arlington, Virginia, 2005. Available on line at www.nami.org.
  • Empfield, Maureen and Bakalar, Nicholas. Understanding Teen Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment and Management. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2001.
  • Fassler, David G. and Dumas, Lynne S. "Help Me, I'm Sad:" Recognizing, Treating and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997.
  • Fristad, Mary A. and Arnold, Jill S. Raising a Moody Child: How to Cope with Depression and Bipolar Disorder. New York: Guilford Press, 2004.
  • Koplewicz, Harold. More Than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 2002.
  • Levenkron, Steven. Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.
  • McCormick, Patricia. Cut. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 2000.
  • Mondimore, Francis M. Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  • Raeburn, Paul. Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.

    • Electroconvulsive Therapy

  • Fink, Max. Electroshock: Restoring the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Manning, Martha. Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

    • Neurobiology (Adolescent)

  • Strauch, Barbara. The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
  • PBS Documentary series FRONTLINE: "Inside the Teenage Brain." Original airdate January 31, 2002.

    • Neuropsychology

  • Broks, Paul. Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.

    • Psychiatric Medication

  • Barondes, Samuel H. Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Kramer, Peter D. Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self. New York: Viking, 1993.
  • ParentsMedGuide, a web-based resource published by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association, 2005. www.parentsmedguide.org

    • Society, Mental Health and Adolescence

  • Barber, Charles. Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
  • Currie, Elliot. The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004.
  • Finnegan, William. Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country. New York: Random House, 1998.
  • Hersch, Patricia. A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence. New York: Ballantine Publishing Group, 1998.
  • Hine, Thomas. The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager: A New History of the American Adolescent Experience. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999.
  • Hymowitz, Kay S. The Liberation’s Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003.
  • Kadison, Richard D. and DiGeronimo, Theresa Foy. College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to do About It. Hoboken, New Jersey: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
  • Kindlon, Dan and Thompson, Michael. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.
  • Marcus, David L. What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999.
  • Pipher, Mary. The Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1994.
  • Pollack, William. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 1998.
  • Shaw, Robert. The The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children. New York: ReganBooks, 2003.

    • Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Young People

  • Maran, Meredith. Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
  • Zailckas, Koren. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood. New York: Viking Adult, 2005.

    • Suicide

  • Blauner, Susan Rose. How I Stayed Alive When My Brain was Trying to Kill Me: One Person’s Guide to Suicide Prevention. New York: William Morrow & Company, 2002.
  • Jamison, Kay Redfield. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. New York: Random House, 1999.
  • Lester, David P. Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look at Why People Kill Themselves. Philadelphia: The Charles Press, Publishers, 1997.
  • Shneidman, Edwin S. The Suicidal Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Suicide: Helping Patients and Their Families in the Aftermath of an Attempt. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Arlington, Virginia, 2005. Available on line at www.nami.org or by calling the NAMI Helpline at 1 800 950 6264.
  • Suicide: Taking Care of Yourself and Your Family After an Attempt: Family Guide for Your Relative in the Emergency Department. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Arlington, Virginia, 2005. Available on line at www.nami.org or by calling the NAMI Helpline at 1 800 950 6264.
  • The Truth About Suicide: Real Stories of Depression in College, a film from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, produced by Ant Hill Marketing, Portland, Oregon, 2003. Available through the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, www.afsp.org. To order call 1 888 333 AFSP.

Recent news

  • 2007 Special Needs Bestseller by LibraryJournal.com

    Will's Choice listed as a 2007 Special Needs Bestseller by LibraryJournal.com

  • Newsweek Magazine, July 16, 2007, "Trouble in a 'Black Box,"

    Gail is quoted in this Newsweek article which suggests that the black box warning on antidepressants for teens and young adults may have had an adverse effect on prescribing practices. Griffith says, "If" I had known how much the label would rattle parents, I wouldn't have voted for it [the black box warning]." In December 2006, the FDA's psychopharmacological committee voted 6 to 2 to extend the black box labelling to young persons up to twenty-four years of age. Griffith voted against extending the label to include this larger constituency, siting the extraordinary vulnerability of this population and the disastrous consequences of failing to treat depression.

  • FDA names Gail griffith consumer representative to the Psychopharmacologica Drug Advisory Committee

    In August 2007, Gail was named consumer representative to the Food and Drug Administration's Psychopharmalogical Drug Advisory Committee for a four year term.

  • Will's Choice reviewed on American Association of Suicidology website, Summer 2007

    Will's Choice: A suicidal teen, a desperate mother, and a chronicle of recovery by Gail Griffith (2006) Reviewed by Judy R. Kletter. Go to: http://www.suicidology.org/ and click on "bookstore" AAS reviewed books.

  • Keynote spaker at 2007 American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Meeting

    On October 3, Gail will deliver the keyntoe address to the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, meeting in Kissimmee, Florida. She will recount how her family came to terms with the suicide attempt of her teenage son.

  • Radio interviews 2006

    Over the course of the summer, Gail was interviewed about teen depression and Will's Choice for the following live radio programs: What's Going On? June 9th WLYU- Vidalia, Georgia Jeff Brucculeri Show, June 21st KAKC-AM - Tulsa, Oklahoma Kris McGregor, June 22nd Spirit 88.9 FM KVSS - Omaha, Nebraska Greg Berg Show, June 23rd WGTD-FM - Madison, Wisconsin Ron Thulin Show, June 27th KAHL San Antonio KGAB, Wyoming, Friday, July 7th North Dakota Public Radio on "Access to Healthcare Issues" interviewed September 23, by Sarah Morrau.

  • Suicide Prevention Action Network

  • 2006 Tipper Gore Remember the Children Award

    Gail was honored with the "Tipper Gore: Remember the Children Award," given by the National Mental Health Association at their annual meeting in June. For pictures of the ceremony, or details about NMHA's annual meeting, please visit their website, www.nmha.org.