Brandy Mechling: PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, Lecturer

Education:

• 2012 - PhD - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
  
• 2005 - MSN, Hampton University, Hampton, VA
  
• 1997 - BSN, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

Research Interests:

• Ambiguous Loss in family members of the mentally ill
  
• Outcomes for young adults who grow up with a mentally ill parent in the home
  
• Young caregiving in children and adolescents of mentally Ill parents
  
• The experience for children growing up with a depressed mother or father; buffers to the experience; risk and resiliency factors

Community Engagement

• Camp Bones, 2006 - present
  
• P.O.R.T. Human Services - SEARISE Program Advisory Board Member, 2010 - present
  
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) local chapter member, volunteer, 2008 - present