This website has some excellent resources on adolescent mental health, including first person accounts from young adults living successfully with mental illness, many of them written by high cognitive individuals who may have overlap with the 2e population (including at least one MH professional), and books aimed at caregivers and professionals.

http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/ahrci/adolescent-mental-health-initiative-book-series/

books can be purchased or are available as free downloadable pdfs.

"Monochrome Days" is the first-person account about depression.

HHS webpage on adolescent depression:

https://www.mentalhealth.gov/talk/parents-caregivers/index.html

Some NIMH pages:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/child-and-adolescent-mental-health/index.shtml

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/teen-depression/index.shtml

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publ...th-mental-illness-fact-sheet/index.shtml

NASP handout on depression and school-age children:

https://www.nasponline.org/Document...ession_Supporting_Students_at_School.pdf


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