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Cheryl K. Olson is codirector of the Center for Mental Health and Media, Massachusetts
General Hospital Department of Psychiatry. She received her doctor of science degree in
health and social behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests
include adolescent mental health, effects of mass media on youth, and using media to change
health behaviors.
Lawrence A. Kutner is codirector of the Center for Mental Health and Media. He earned his
PhD in psychology from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include parentchild
communication and using mass media to destigmatize mental illness.
Dorothy E. Warner is currently a project coordinator at the Judge Baker Children’s Center in
Boston. She earned her PhD at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts
University. Her research interests include electronic play, the socioemotional development of
children with chronic illness, and virtual communities as therapeutic/educational environments.
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