Evidence-Based Mental Health

Clinical guidelines relating to the diagnosis and treatment of specific disorders are on my guidelines page.

Lists of systematic reviews on mental health topics can be found on my bibliographies and reading lists page. These searches employ the Systematic Reviews Subset Strategy developed by the National Library of Medicine.

Library members have online access to the following journals in this field.

Evidence-Based Healthcare
Evidence-Based Medicine
Evidence-Based Mental Health
Evidence-Based Nursing

The Campbell Collaboration
The Campbell Collaboration collaborates closely with its sibling organization, the Cochrane Collaboration, which prepares and maintains systematic reviews of the effects of interventions in health care. The Campbell Library of Systematic Reviews provides free online access to systematic reviews in the areas of education, criminal justice and social welfare.

Below are lists of abstracts of Cochrane reviews from various specialist Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups. The complete reviews can be accessed through the Cochrane Library, but these lists make browsing easier.

Cochrane Reviews - by topic Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems
Cochrane Reviews - by topic Dementia and Cognitive Improvement
Cochrane Reviews - by topic Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis
Cochrane Reviews - by topic Drugs and Alcohol
Cochrane Reviews - by topic Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
Cochrane Reviews - by topic Schizophrenia
Cochrane Reviews - by topic Tobacco Addiction

There's also a complete alphabetical list of reviews by title.

Evidence-Based Psychiatric Practice: Implications for Education and Continuing Professional Development
By E M Goldner, A Abass, J S Leverette, and D R Haslam. A position statement of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, 2001.

Finding the Evidence: A Gateway to the Literature in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Second edition)
Edited by Angela Scott, Mike Shaw, and Carol Joughin. The Focus Project, Research Unit, Royal College of Psychiatrists. London, Gaskell, 2001.

TRIP Database
The TRIP Database searches across a range of high-quality medical information and gives direct, hyperlinked access to 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc. Sources searched by TRIP

What is an Integrated Care Pathway?
This is one of the Bandolier "What- is" series. Additional topics are listed at Bandolier - Evidenced Based Health Care - Extras

Women's Mental Health: An Evidence Based Review
A report by Mental Health Determinants and Populations, Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2000