CABF Chat Schedules
CABF offers a wide range of chats to meet your needs. Each week we have ongoing parent chats where you can connect with other parents raising a child, teen or young adult with bipolar disorder. We also offer moderated chats with experts in issues related to parenting, mood disorders and the accompanying challenges. Ask these top experts your own questions!
The CABF Expert Chat series for 2010 is filled with timely and informative topics in response to your feedback. We have some excellent guests lined up and more on the way! Be sure to mark your calendar and watch for email updates for more information. To get the latest updates and information go to your CABF profile and click on 'expert chat' under 'Special Interests'. Transcripts are always available after each chat. Click here for transcripts from March, 2010 on or here for transcripts from earlier chats.
Expert Chat Calendar
Marya Hornbacher, August 18
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Dr. Mary Fristad, December 8 Caring for the Caregiver
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How Do I Enter Chat?
Bookmark http://www.bpkids.org/connect/chat, or click the link on the Connect menu. You will be asked to login.
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Expert Bios
Linea Johnson July 15, 2010
Marya Hornbacher August 18, 2010
Marya Hornbacher was twenty-four when she was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar disorder. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated national bestseller Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, a book that remains an intensely read classic, and of the acclaimed novel The Center of Winter. Marya's new memoir Madness: A Life (Houghton Mifflin) is an intense, beautifully written book about the difficulties, and promise, of living with bipolar disorder from an early age. It is already being called "the most visceral, important book on mental illness to be published in years."
Marya was on CABF's podcast for teens and young adults. Listen to an excerpt below.
Mary Fristad, Ph.D. December 8, 2010
Caring for the Caregiver: Putting Yourself First (or at least not last)
Mary Fristad, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Dr. Fristad is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Ohio State University, where she has been on faculty since 1986. Dr. Fristad is the Director of Research and Psychological Services in the OSU Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Fristad’s area of specialty is childhood mood disorders. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters addressing the assessment and treatment of childhood-onset depression, suicidality and bipolar disorder (manic-depression).
Dr. Fristad recently edited the Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents. She has also written a book for families entitled Raising a Moody Child: How to Cope with Depression and Bipolar Disorder. Dr. Fristad has been the principal or co-principal investigator on over a dozen federal, state and local grants. Recently, she been awarded a 5-year NIMH grant to investigate the efficacy of Multi-Family Psychoeducation Groups in treating childhood mood disorders and a 2-year grant from the Ohio Department of Mental Health to investigate the efficacy of Individual Family Psychoeducation in treating early-onset bipolar disorder. Dr. Fristad is a member of CABF's Scientific Advisory Council.
Other topics that we are in the process of scheduling include:
AACAP Parent Guide to Medications
Sibling Issues
Self Destructive Behaviors, with a focus on eating disorders and cutting.
Parent Chat Room
Meet other parents of children, teens and young adults with bipolar disorder in this casual member chat.
| Day | Pacific | Mountain | Central | Eastern | Topic |
| Sunday | 5-7 PM | 6-8 PM | 7-9 PM | 8-10 PM | General Chat |
| Monday | 6-8 PM | 7-9 PM | 8-10 PM | 9-11 PM | General Chat |
| Wednesday | 9 - 11 AM | 10 - Noon | 11 AM - 1 PM | Noon - 2 PM | General Chat |
| Wednesday | 6-8 PM | 7-9 PM | 8-10 PM | 9-11 PM | General Chat |
| Friday | 6-8 PM | 7-9 PM | 8-10 PM | 9-11 PM | General Chat |
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