Project Team

Project Director:

• Judith Siegel, MSW, LICSW

Consultant and Collaborator:

• William Pollack, PhD

Project Committee Members:

• Daniel McCarey, BA
• Francis Guarino
• Elan Rochbert

Actors:

  Medical Providers:

• Joshua Borus, MD, MPH
• Errol Fields, MD, PhD, MPH
• Holly Gooding, MD, MSc

  Mental Health Providers:

• Paul Arandia, MSW, LICSW
• Lisa Varchol Perron, MSW, LICSW

  Patients:

• Owen Alderson
• Kori Alston
• Ben Lidsky
• Greg Rodney

Graphic Designer:

• Amanda Kohn, BFA

Filmmaker:

• McElroy Films

Project Contributors:

• Emily Arenson, MSW, LCSW
• Joshua Borus, MD, MPH
• Richard Chung, MD
• Holly Gooding, MD, MSc
• Areej Hassan, MD, MPH

Acknowledgments:

This project is the combined work of many people who gave their time and creativity to make it possible. A special thank you to William Pollack, PhD whose expertise in the area of the emotional development and life of adolescent boys and young men was invaluable. We also appreciate the critical feedback and editing by S. Jean Emans, MD, and Adrianne Goncalves, and we are grateful to Dr. Emans for her continuing encouragement and support of this project. We also want to gratefully acknowledge the Walnut Hill School for the Arts for casting adolescent male actors.

We are grateful to our funders:

• The Jane Addams Fund of the Boston Children’s Hospital Social Work Department
• The Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital MCH Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) Training Program MCH/HRSA T71MC00009 effective clinical interviewing of boys and young men