Dr. Joanne Nicholson

Nicholson and colleagues published the first guide for parents living with mental illness written by parents, Parenting Well When You’re Depressed, and a guide for professionals written with professionals, Creating Options for Family Recovery: A Provider’s Guide to Promoting Parental Mental Health. She is committed to non-traditional as well as scientific knowledge dissemination, having published over 150 papers and original articles in professional journals and edited volumes, provided interviews for newspapers, magazines and radio in the U.S. and other countries, and having been an invited contributor to the Huffington Post. Nicholson has visited programs around the word as a consultant and trainer in Australia,

The Netherlands, Spain, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, Finland, Northern Ireland, Austria and Canada. More recently, she is exploring emerging technologies and peer supports on behalf of individuals with behavioral health conditions and disabilities. Nicholson co-founded and partnered with colleagues in the Maternal Mental Health Research collaborative to build the community of mothers with behavioral health conditions and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities. She co-founded the National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities. She is currently studying systems transformation as a Co-Principal Investigator on the evaluation of the 2022 - 2027 Massachusetts Medicaid 1115 Waiver Demonstration Project. Most recently Nicholson collaborated with diverse colleagues from Philadelphia Medicaid Community Behavioral Health to implement training and coaching on the ParentingWell Practice Approach.