LIST OF MENTAL HEALTH TOPICS
Aboriginal Mental Health
Administration and Policy in Mental Health
Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Phobias
Art Collections and Art Therapy
Books By or About People with a Mental Illness
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Consumers and Carers
Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services
Depression
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Dual Diagnosis
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Evidence-Based Mental Health
Forensic Psychiatry
Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry
Guidelines
- to assist with clinical treatment issues
Health Promotion (Mental Health)
Housing for People with a Mental Illness
- includes problems of homelessness
Legislation
Mental Health (General mental health sites)
Personality Disorders
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Primary Care - Mental Health
Psychiatric Drug Information
Psychiatric Nursing
PubMed (a free version of Medline) - and how to use it
Rating Scales
Rehabilitation and Recovery
Rural Mental Health
Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Statistics
Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviour
Theorists and Theories
Violence, Aggression and Dangerous Behaviour |
Lists of books and journal articles are available on my subject bibliographies page. Check under "Antipsychotic Agents", or other cataegories of drug, and drug
therapy of major diagnostic categories eg. Depression - Drug
Therapy. There are also links under Psychopharmacology, but there are no searches on individual drugs.
Library members have online access to a number of journals in this area, including
European Neuropsychopharmacology
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Human Psychopharmacology
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
Psychopharmacology
Psychopharmacology Update
Australian
Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin
Current issues in drug safety are published by Adverse Drug
Reactions Advisory Committee in the quarterly publication, the
Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin.
Australian Medicines Handbook
Access is restricted. You will need your Library username and password to access this text.
Healthtouch® - Drug
Information
This site enables you to find information about more than 7,000
prescription and over-the-counter medications, including common
uses of a drug, the proper ways to use the medicine, possible side
effects, and other helpful information. It is intended for
consumers, and encourages discussion of the information with an
appropriate health professional.
Internet Mental
Health: Medication Research
This site provides lists of references to journal articles on a
range of drugs used in psychiatry.
Internet
Mental Health: Medications
Information on each medication includes Pharmacology, Indications,
Contraindications, Warnings, Precautions, Adverse Effects,
Overdose, Dosage, Research. The information for these drugs is from
Canadian monographs. There can be differences in indications,
dosage forms and warnings for these drugs in other countries.
MEDLINEplus:
Drug Information
Information for consumers on a wide variety of drugs, including
commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs.
Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress
From the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2002.
Psychopharmacology - The Fourth Generation of Progress
From the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2000.
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
From the Department of Health and Ageing, this site provides access to the Australian government's Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits.
Psychopharmacology
Tips
This site is maintained by Robert Hsiung, MD Assistant Professor of
Clinical Psychiatry University of Chicago, who provides the
following advice on the use of the information. "These tips are
just that --tips -- and not (with some exceptions)
the results of scientific studies. They should not be
construed as providing diagnosis, medical advice, or treatment.
They have worked before and might work again, but they are
not necessarily generalizable and should not be
applied without attention to the particular situation and the
involvement of a knowledgeable physician."
RxList
RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a
licensed California Pharmacist, and provides both professional and
consumer drug information.
Texas
Department of State Health Services - Texas Implementation of
Medication Algorithms
The stated goal of this project is "to develop and continuously
update medication algorithms and to train systems to utilize them
in order to reduce the immediate and long-term emotional, physical
and financial burdens of mental disorders for clients, their
families, and their health care systems."
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