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Free Parent Education Session Thursday (25); Warning Signs of Depressive Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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For Release: June 19, 2009

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Parents of children and adolescents in the Bay Area are being offered a free education session with child and teen depression specialists this Thursday (25) at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
 
The session will be led by Frances J. Wren, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and of pediatrics at Stanford University and director of the child and adolescent depression clinic at Packard Children's Hospital, and Johanna Warchola, PhD, a clinical instructor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford and Packard.
 
In the wake of two recent teen suicides in Palo Alto, Wren and Warchola are working to raise community awareness of mental health resources for young people, help clarify the warning signs of teen depression, and help counteract the stigma teens or families may feel about seeking treatment.
 
The presentation by Drs. Wren and Warchola will be followed by a question and answer period.
 
Session and RSVP info
Thursday, June 25, 2009
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Freidenrich Auditorium, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA  (map)
Phone: 650-721-6327
Fax: 650-725-9544
RSVP: Maura Chatwell at chatwell@stanford.edu
 
More information about Child and Adolescent Psychiatry services at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital are available by calling (650) 723-5511 or online at www.psychiatry.lpch.org.
 
About Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Ranked as one of the nation's best pediatric hospitals by U.S.News & World Report, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is a 272-bed hospital devoted to the care of children and expectant mothers. Providing pediatric and obstetric medical and surgical services and associated with the Stanford University School of Medicine, Packard Children's offers patients locally, regionally and nationally the full range of health care programs and services, from preventive and routine care to the diagnosis and treatment of serious illness and injury. For more information, visit www.lpch.org.

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