This quote from David Shern, PhD, president and CEO of Mental Health America (formerly National Mental Health Association, NMHA), explaining the results of the organization's recent attiduinal survey on stress, has been picked up by several news outlets and is helping to raise public understanding of everyday mental health concerns:

"The majority of Americans are struggling to find a balance among the multitude of challenges that they have in their busy lives. . .People who have parenting responsibilities report the greatest level of stress . . . About 40 percent of them report three or more significant stressors in their lives."

Dr. Shern's comments were featured in a December 4, 2006 Voice of America (VOA) story on stress in the industrialized world and have also appeared in Men's News Daily, Contacto magazine, and NBC's Your Total Health.