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John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
Dr. John M. Grohol, Psy.D. is a visionary pioneer in the online mental health market, publishing the first commercial mental health portal in 1995. Recognizing the educational and social potential of the Internet, Dr. Grohol transformed the mental health educational, informational and online support group resources. Dr. Grohol's leadership broke down the barriers of stigma often associated with mental health concerns, bringing trusted resources to the Internet.
After receiving his graduate training in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University in 1995, Dr. Grohol co-founded and oversaw Mental Health Net, one of the largest mental health portals and online communities. He has worked tirelessly as a patient advocate to improve the quality of information available for mental health patients, highlighting "quality" mental health information, support communities he's built over the past 11 years and has continuously hosted a free weekly mental chat online since 1995.
Dr. Grohol was the first to publish a self-help book online, Psychological Self-Help (authored by Clay Tucker-Ladd, Ph.D.), as well as the first to publish the official diagnostic symptom lists for mental disorders. Recognizing the connective social power of the Internet, he started the first large-scale online mental health self-help support community in 1996 and helped bring one of the first and largest online therapy clinics to popularity in 2000, HelpHorizons.com. During his career, Dr. Grohol has designed and successfully implemented the mental health center for drkoop.com, the website of the former Surgeon General of the United States, C. Everett Koop, M.D. He was the industry's youngest Chief Operating Officer while at HelpHorizons.com, Inc. and led the firm to its successful sale in January 2006 to Workplace Benefits.
Dr. Grohol is the author of The Insider's Guide to Mental Health Resources Online (Guilford, 2003), a published researcher, and sits on the editorial boards for the Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journal of Online Behavior and CyberPsychology & Behavior. He is also a founding member, fellow and the first president of the International Society for Mental Health Online. Dr. Grohol has chaired and presented at over three dozen symposia about online mental health and psychology at American Psychological Association conventions and for others.
Dr. Grohol currently publishes the 11-year-old Psych Central (http://psychcentral.com/), one of the leading mental health portals online offering consumers professionally-reviewed mental health information, resources, news, research briefs, the popular World of Psychology blog, and a safe support community.
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