Acknowledgments

The Experience Journal was created under the direction of Drs. David Ray DeMaso and Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich. Both are child and adolescent psychiatrists in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Together with Dr. DeMaso, Dr. Allison Lauretti, Project Director, and Carolyn Kinnamon, Rebecca Casey and Tobin Hack, Project Coordinators, have created the Overweight Experience Journal for families facing child and adolescent weight issues.

Support for the Overweight Experience Journal has come from John and Ann Ellen Rutherford.

The video clips were produced and edited by Dixon Yun of MRRC Multimedia, Children’s Hospital Boston. The web site was designed by Meghan Toczko.

We would like to thank Kathryn Skitt, Dr. Nicole Eldridge Marcus, Dr. David Ludwig, Jennifer Rein, Dr. Diego Botero, Jan Hangen, Colleen Kochman and Kelly Sinclair for their valuable contributions to this project.

We are indebted to the editing input of Nancy & Robert Anthony, Andrea Balch, Evelyn & Beth Bauer, Dr. William R. Beardslee, Dr. Marina Bers, Dr. Betsy Blume, Dr. Richard Bourne, Margaret Comeau, Sally Cottingham, Peggy Crowder, Marcia Cummings, Beth Donegan-Driscoll, Jan Hangen, Elyse Kenney, Kenneth Laferriere, Dr. Susan Lambert, Loralei Lauranzano, Dr. Alan Leichtner, Diane & William Pickles, Dr. Shahna Rogosin, Dr. Debbie Seacord, Dr. Margaret Stuber, Dr. Eva Szigethy, John & Joanne Vogel, Dr. Elizabeth Wharff, and Gail Windmueller.

Finally, and most importantly, we extend enormous gratitude to all of the families who generously provided their stories for the Overweight Experience Journal.