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KEY CONTACTS
Prometheus Books
Email publicity@prometheusbooks.com
Tel 800-853-7545
Independent book publicist Skye Wentworth (Boston area)
Tel 978-462-4453
Email skyewentworth@gmail.com
Author Victoria Costello
Email victoria@victoriacostello.com
Call 415-505-0867
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Publisher’s Weekly – A science journalist and mental health advocate in San Francisco, Costello offers both an affecting chronicle of her family’s mental illness and a useful guide to detection and prevention…What Costello had to face was what she calls “connecting the dots” from her children’s mental illness to that of several generations of family members, such as her father’s alcoholism and depression, her sister’s death from a drug overdose, and her own depression and abuse of alcohol. Attempting to diagnose children for mental disorders takes into account this predisposition and family history. [It's] useful for early detection and treatment; moreover, recognizing and avoiding environmental factors for at-risk kids such as chaos at home (i.e., divorce), bullying, and drug abuse can actually prevent the onset of mental illness. In the end, Costello presents a book of vigorous personal and factual research. 10/24/11
Book review by the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Advocate
Recent Articles by Victoria Costello
Ten Tips for Family Mental Wellness on Psych Central
When One in 15 Teens is a Daily Marijuana User: Re-evaluating Youth Psychosis on Psychology Today
Writing “A Lethal Inheritance”: Finding the Right Balance Between Fact and Feeling on Reporting on Health
The Implications of Plot Lines in Illness and Memoir on Nieman Storyboard
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