I NEVER DREAMED I WOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH MY CHILD’S … mental illness, drug abuse, addiction, being accused of a crime ...
Facilitator Background
John McKinnon, MD is co-founder (1997) and CEO of Montana Academy, a therapeutic residential school located on a remote ranch in NW Montana. He trained at Yale. In the decades before fleeing to Montana he taught at UC San Francisco, directed psychiatric outpatient services at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and practiced adult and adolescent psychiatry in Texas. He has written: An Unchanged Mind: The Problem of Immaturity in Adolescence and To Change a Mind: Parenting to Promote Maturity in Teenagers.
Patty Flance Croughan graduated from Simmons College School of Social Work in 1970 then returned to St. Louis where she spent her early career years at a family social service agency before deciding to pursue a professional life in outpatient psychotherapy. After 40 years, she is still in practice working with individual adults and couples. Her specialty has been working with people who have serious illnesses and those who have suffered traumatic losses. She has facilitated support groups for cancer patients and their families, as well as for widows.