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Mental Health Resources by Topic

Last update: 24 September 2007,
by Maureen Bell



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

Here I've listed general mental health sites, and other links which don't readily fit into the specific categories listed in the column on the left of the page.


Behavior OnLine: The Mental Health and Behavioral Science Meeting Place
This site aspires to be "the premier World Wide Web gathering place for mental health professionals and applied behavioral scientists.." It has a number of interesting discussion groups in which well known authorities in their field participate. For example there is a discussion group on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in which Francine Shapiro participates.

The Factitious Disorder, Munchausen Syndrome & Munchausen by Proxy Page
Produced by Dr Marc Feldman, this page contains a large collection of links on factitious disorders.

Google Directory Mental Health

Health On the Net Foundation
The Health On the Net Foundation (HON), created in 1995, is a not-for-profit International Swiss Organization. HON's mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information. It has sophisticated search interfaces to allow access to a wide range of quality health material. Although it is a general health site I've included it here, as it includes an extensive range of mental health resources.

Historic Asylums (of America)
This is an amazing site for those of you with an interest in history. The page bears the subtitle "America's Vanishing Historic Asylums, State Hospitals, Sanitariums, County Homes, Medical hospitals, and Other Institutions" and represents an attempt to catalog and present America's historic state hospitals (insane asylums) founded in the latter half of the 19th century.

Information for Practice
The stated aim of this site, from the New York University School of Social Work, is "To help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship".

Internet Mental Health
Mental health encyclopaedia for professionals, consumers. Includes extensive descriptions of the symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments of the most common mental health disorders, as well as detailed histories of the most frequently prescribed medications. Online research articles, information booklets, and book reviews are also available.

Medscape - Psychiatry
Medscape - Psychiatry draws on a variety of resources to provide information on diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment of mental illness. Each day, full-text clinical articles (many offering CME credit), interactive cases, news reports, and/or literature reviews profiling issues relevant to primary care physicians and specialists in mental health are posted. You will need to register to access clinical articles, news, patient information, and other Medscape features, but registration is free.

National Electronic Library for Mental Health
A British site which aims to provide comprehensive, unbiased and up-to-date content aimed at primary care and mental health professionals.

Neurolink
Neurolink produce a range of initiatives and practical tools which have been designed to be utilised in the field by healthcare professionals involved in depression management, as well as teaching aids for medical professionals. Neurolink is an independent educational programme run by a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals.

Neurosciences on the Internet
This site is edited by an American neurologist, Neil A. Busis, from the University of Pittsburgh Shadyside Medical Center, and contains a wide range of resources, from journal links and databases to guides and newsgroups.

PEP Web
This site provides access to PEPLiteratureSearch, a free search of both the PEP(Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) archive of psychoanalytic literature and the current content of the PEP journals. The Archive contains over 50,000 articles from 1920.

PsychCrawler
PsychCrawler is a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology.

Psychwatch.Com
Psychwatch.Com was founded in April 1998 by Fritz Galette and Chris Nuesell, two graduate psychology students at Fordham University, presently working on their dissertations. It is intended for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other related mental health practitioners, both professionals and students.

PSY-LOG: The Psychoanalytic Search Engine
A trilingual page which lists a wide array of analytic material.

Sleep Home Pages
The page is divided into separate sections for researchers, clinicians, and the public.

Sleep Medicine Home Page
An extensive collection of links to sites on the web pertaining to sleep physiology and pathology, support groups, and disorder centers.

SleepNet
SleepNet was started to provide information about sleep disorders and sleep deprivation to the public, however it does contain professional and research links as well as less technical material.

World Database of Happiness
Described as a "continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life" directed by Ruut Veenhoven from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, this site contains the Bibliography of Happiness, a collection of over 3,000 scientific publications accessible by author or subject; the Catalog of Happiness in Nations, providing responses from over 1,500 national happiness surveys taken in 93 different countries between 1946 and 1996; the Catalog of Happiness Correlates, which presents the abstracts of correlational research findings from 662 studies worldwide; and finally, the Directory of Happiness Investigators, an international listing of more than 3,300 happiness researchers.

Writings on Mindfulness
From the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, located at the University of Wales, Bangor. There is full text here for a range of documents including some theses on mindfulness.

Yahoo! - Mental Health