Research Catalog

Title

The price of silence : a mom's perspective on mental illness / Liza Long ; foreword by Harold S. Koplewicz, MD.

Author

Long, Liza

Publication

New York, New York : Hudson Street Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Koplewicz, Harold S.

Description

xxi, 282 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Liza Long is the single mother of a child with an undiagnosed mental disorder. When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was, 'What if my son does that someday?' She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal posted as 'I am Adam Lanza's mother.' The post went viral, receiving 1.2 million Facebook likes, nearly 17,000 tweets, and 30,000 emails. Now ... she takes a ... look at how we address mental illness, especially in children who are funneled through a system of education, mental healthcare, and juvenile detention that leads far too often to prison"--

Subject

• Children with mental disabilities > Psychology
• Violence in children
• Parents of children with disabilities
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
• PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
• Children with mental disabilities > Psychology
• Parents of children with disabilities
• Violence in children

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-274) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A day in my life -- Stigma -- Science -- Mental health care -- Education -- Crime and punishment -- Family.

ISBN

• 9781594632570 (hardback) :
• 159463257X (hardback)

LCCN

^^2014009322

OCLC

870984540

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library