Harold S. Koplewicz - The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety

There are so many people to thank for their work on The Scaffold Effect and the Child Mind Institute.

First, I want to thank my agent, Michael Carlisle. He has been after me for years to write this book. If he hadnt kept at it, the wheels would not have been put in motion. Thanks to Eliza Rothstein for seeing it through with such close attention and care.

Marnie Cochran has been the perfect editor. Her comments and expertise have elevated the book to the highest level. I couldnt have asked for a smarter publishing partner.

Huge gratitude to Valerie Frankel, a very talented writer, who worked closely with me to get all my stories and strategies onto the page and help me grow a one-page outline into a fantastic book. And thanks to Dana Points for introducing me to Val.

The mission of the Child Mind Institute is the transformation of the lives of kids struggling with mental health and learning disorders by providing the highest standard of care. The litmus test for me in bringing people into our institute is whether Id trust them with my own children. Every one of our clinicians passes the test. They are what makes CMI so special. All of them have contributed to the formation of the core concept in The Scaffold Effect, but I want to thank especially the doctors who added their voices and stories to these pages: Drs. David Anderson, Jerry Bubrick, Rachel Busman, Matthew M. Cruger, Jill Emanuele, Jamie M. Howard, Stephanie Lee, Paul Mitrani, and Mark Reinecke.

Our researchers share their data before they publish, altruistically, nobly, and pragmatically, making sure that were accelerating the pace of discovery. Thanks to Michael Milham, vice president of research, and his incredible team.

A special thanks to our Scientific Research Council, made up of researchers and scientists from national leading academic medical centers, for all their wisdom and support.

Thanks to Mimi Corcoran, our executive director, and our leadership team, including Amie Clancy, Brett Dakin, Julia Burns, for making sure the trains run on time and helping me turn my vision into reality.

Blythe Gillespie was indispensable in bringing order to an unruly project (and to my unruly life).

Our communications department educates the public about scaffold parenting principles on childmind.org and are just as essential to our mission as our researchers and clinicians. Much thanks and appreciation to editorial director Caroline Miller and our press officer Haleigh Breest for their dedication and hard work.

Very special thanks goes to Harry Kimball, director of communications special projects, for always making me sound so smart and working on some of the research for the book.

Id like to thank the Child Mind Institutes board of directors for its endless support and belief in my vision and dream of creating the institute against the odds and the prevailing belief that this was not possible as an independent national nonprofit. With special thanks to: Brooke Garber Neidich, cofounder and cochair; Ram Sundaram, co-chair; Debra G. Perelman, cofounder and vice chair. Our board members are generous with their time, creativity, intelligence, and financial support: Arthur G. Altschul, Jr.; Devon Briger; Lisa Domenico Brooke; Phyllis Green and Randolph Cwen; Mark Dowley; Elizabeth and Michael Fascitelli; Margaret Grieve; Jonathan Harris; Joseph Healey; Ellen and Howard Katz; Preethi Krishna; Christine and Richard Mack; Anne Welsh McNulty; Julie Minskoff; Daniel Neidich; Zibby Owens; Josh Resnick; Linnea Roberts; Jane Rosenthal; Jordan Schaps; Linda Schaps; David Shapiro; and Emma Stone.

Thanks to extraordinary donors Helen and Chuck Schwab, Linnea and George Roberts, and Devon and Pete Briger, and supporters and friends in the San Francisco Bay Area, led by our West Coast Advisory Council, including Megan and Harris Barton, Cori Bates, Ashlie Beringer, Suzanne Crandall, Stacy Denman, Abby Durban, Eve and Ross Jaffe, Liz Laffont, Andrea McTamaney, Karen and Ronnie Lott, Jen Sills, Christine Tanona, and Angelique Wilson. Thanks for helping to make the Child Mind Institute bicoastal.

Thanks to Bloomingdales, our first corporate sponsor when no major national brand was adopting child mental health as their cause. I want to thank Anne Keating for being stubbornly supportive, former CEO Michael Gould for listening to her, and my friends Frank Berman and CEO Tony Spring for taking it to a new level of partnership.

Over the years weve had the great opportunity to work with actors, authors, musicians, journalists, entrepreneurs, politicians, and other notable and creative people in our public education campaigns and events, and they have done so much to bring our message to people everywhere. Thank you to Reese Witherspoon, Kevin Love, Jesse Eisenberg, Charles Schwab, Lindsey Stirling, Whoopi Goldberg, Lorraine Bracco, Naomi Judd, Brian Grazer, Trudie Styler, Orlando Bloom, Governor Gavin Newsom, Goldie Hawn, Glenn Close, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Ali Wentworth, Cynthia McFadden, Elizabeth Vargas, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jimmy Buffett, Michelle Kydd Lee, Adam Silver, Bill Hader, Kim Kardashian, Jim Gaffigan, Mark Ruffalo, Al Roker, Deborah Roberts, Meredith Vieira, Patrick Kennedy, and Scott Stossel.

During my career I have been blessed with many remarkable and wise mentors who have shared their brilliance, support, and love. I thank them all and especially Drs. Rachel Klein and the late Don Klein, Robert Cancro, Gaye Carlson, Tom Insel, Bennett Leventhal, Cathy Lord, Kathleen Merikangis, Nora Volkow, and Ruth Westheimer.

Many thanks to all my wonderful friends, colleagues, and dedicated supporters, and specifically Virginia Ginger Anthony, Ann and Fred Axelrod, Emary Aronson, June Blum, Alex Briscoe, Kenneth Cole, Geoff and Sarah Gund, Jenji Kohan, Edi Kornell, Michelle Kydd Lee, Daniel Lurie, Wes Moore, Chris Noxon, Gail and Len Saltz, Lisa Schultz, Klara and Larry Silverstein, and Ron Steingard.

I get so much joy watching my son Adam and daughter-in-law, Zaneta, parent our grandson, Jackson, so naturally. And thanks to my sister, Edith Koplewicz, for always being able to make me laugh.

Life is so much easier when you have a best friend. Im so fortunate that Brian Novick has been mine since medical school. Thanks, Brian, for all the support and for taking so much pleasure in other peoples happiness.

Finally, you might have heard that behind every successful man is a strong woman. My wife, Linda, does not stand behind me or anyone. Shes been standing next to me, and always asking me whats truly important and keeping me focused on our goals for our family and our lives. Thanks for everything we are, have been, and will be, Linda.