William R. Beardslee, M.D. is Academic Chairman at Children's Hospital Boston and the Gardner A. Monks Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has devoted his career to understanding childhood depression and developing ways to prevent it. Dr. Beardslee has shown that families can understand depression and take steps to prevent its emergence in their children.

Excerpts from Dr. Beardslee's book, “When a Parent Is Depressed” (published by Little, Brown and Company, 2003):

  • Symptoms of Depression
  • When a Loved One Becomes Depressed
  • Charlie
  • Jesse
  • Kate
  • Rebecca
  • Four Key Elements to Getting Treatment
  • Hospitalizing a Child
  • Recovering from Depression
  • Strategies to Sustain Change

Video excerpts form Dr. Beardslee’s October 20, 2002 Askwith Education Forum presentation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education:

  Risk Factors for Depression
  Depression Can Strike Anyone
  Parents Talking to Kids
  Depression Attacks the Soul
  Depression can be Treated
  Preventing Depression
  Understanding Depression
  Kate and Mary