Abnormal Psychology
This site is specific to the field of abnormal psychology. Here you will find different perspectives regarding the interpretation of abnormal behavior, many of the common types of disorders and information on treatment for certain types of disorders.
About Our Kids
An informational resource for parents and professionals on child and adolescent development and psychiatric illness in kids.
Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web
Designed to be a resource for mental health consumers to find what they want and, in particular, ways to recover.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration (Maryland)
ADAA is the state agency responsible for the planning, development, coordination and delivery of services to prevent harmful involvement with alcohol and other drugs and to treat the illness of chemical addiction.
Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer's Association is the largest national voluntary health organization supporting Alzheimer's research and care. On this site, you will find information about the disease, our programs and services, and our advocacy efforts.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
The leading national and professional medical association dedicated to treating and improving the quality of life for children, adolescents and families affected by mental, behavioral and developmental disorders.
American Counseling Association
The largest scientific and professional organization representing master's-level professional counselors in the U.S.; over 50,000 members.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Supports research and education to prevent suicide.
American Mental Health Counselors Association
The American Mental Health Counselors Association is the only organization working exclusively for the mental health counseling profession.
American Psychiatric Association
A medical specialty society with 40,500 physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional illnesses.
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Provides leadership to promote the psychiatric-mental health nursing profession, improve mental health care for culturally diverse individuals, families, groups and communities, and shape health policy for the delivery of mental health services.
American Public Health Association
APHA is a quality resource for public health professionals. With more than a century of achievements, APHA is on the forefront of disease prevention and health promotion.
Archives of General Psychiatry
The Archives of General Psychiatry website includes the text of many of the features of the print journal. Current issues are available on this website after the fifteenth of the month.
At Health
This site contains resources for finding a practitioner or treatment center, learning about disorders and conditions, reading about medications used in mental health treatment, getting the latest mental health news, locating resources for emotional growth and healing, searching for books and more!
Australia's National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy
This site identifies effective models for intervention and prevention of suicide in emergency, mental health, youth and community services.
Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc.
A mental health authority for Baltimore City. Provides and oversees mental health services.
Bipolar Disorders Information Center
Site containing information on clinical treatment for bipolar disorder. Includes the Bipolar Disorder newsletter and information about conferences, symposia and other resources.
CANMAT
Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments
Canadian Traumatic Stress Network
The Canadian Traumatic Stress Network's mission is to be the Canada-wide network of resources dedicated to the advancement of traumatic stress services through education, training, public awareness, professional development and research.
Case Management Resource Guide
A free, searchable database of over 110,000 specialty health care services, facilities, businesses and organizations.
Center for Disease Control Suicide Prevention Site
This fact sheet presents statistics on suicide across the country from 1999, the most recent figures available.
Center for Health and Human Services, Massachusetts
Website of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services for the state of Massachusetts.
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
An international listing of clinical research trials. You can use this listing to search for clinical trials, find out information about physicians and medical centers performing clinical research, and learn about drug therapies newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration. You may also sign up for their email notification service, which will inform you of future postings in a particular therapeutic area.
Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health
CEBMH is promoting and supporting the teaching and practice of evidence-based mental health care.
Cognitive-Developmental Assessment and Remediation
Resource page containing information on cognitive developmental assessment and remediation.
Community Residence Mental Health Programs
The Way Back is a nonprofit organization that operates community-based transitional residential facilities for men and women, ages 18 and over, who have a primary psychiatric diagnosis.
CONTAC
The Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center is a resource center for consumers/survivors/ex-patients and consumer-run organizations across the United States, promoting self-help, recovery and empowerment.
Coping with Depression Fallout
An excellent site that describes how to live and cope with depression.
CRISP
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals and other research institutions. The database, maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), , includes projects funded by the NIH Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH). Users, including the public, can use the CRISP interface to search for scientific concepts and emerging trends and techniques, or to identify specific projects and/or investigators. Below you will be able to access additional general information about the CRISP database, as well as obtain answers to questions frequently asked about CRISP. In addition, this home page serves as the gateway to interactive searching of Award Information.
Depression/Bipolar Disorder Resources
Steven Thow's The Write Brain includes a broad range of information relating to depression and bipolar disorder for consumers and professionals.
Development and Psychopathology
This multidisciplinary journal is devoted to the publication of original, empirical, theoretical and review papers that address the interrelationship of normal and pathological development in adults and children.
DMDA Depression Site
The Australian Depression and Mood Disorders Association.
Drug Strategies
A nonprofit research institute that promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education, treatment, law enforcement and community initiatives. Duke University Programs on Psychiatric Advance Directives
Provides tool kits and user friendly instructions for consumers, clinicians and family members on how to complete psychiatric advance directives and health care power-of-attorney documents.
Fitzmaurice Community Services, Inc.
Provides information about this mental health organization for the mental health field, consumers and the community.
Fragile X Syndrome
Information on fragile X syndrome, the number-one inherited cause of mental retardation.
The Future of Children
NCSL Report on state-based mental health services for children.
Georgia Mental HealthNet
A site containing a URL database with over 500 mental health–related sites.
Harvard Brain Bank
A national nonprofit resource for the collection and distribution of postmortem human brain tissue for medical research into the causes of devastating neurological and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Health On the Net (HON) Foundation
The purpose of this not-for-profit international Swiss organization is to guide laypersons and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information.
Healthier You
Vital information for the informed patient and caregiver. Treatment Access Expansion Project
A Medicare Part D Enrollment booklet.
The Human Growth Center
A nonprofit organization committed to providing needed psychotherapeutic services to the Greater Bucks County, Penna., community.
INFOMEDICAL
A search engine for medical businesses containing information on companies, distributors, products, organizations, services and other resources.
The Initiative Today
Site containing initiatives to reduce underage drinking.
International Journal of Psychopathology, Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
An electronic journal devoted to innovations in the understanding of psychopathology and in the psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic techniques for preventing, eliminating, or reducing the suffering that results from psychopathology.
Internet Mental Health
A site whose goal is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness throughout the world; includes online diagnosis of certain conditions.
InteliHealth
One of the leading online health information companies; has relationships with Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Sponsored by Aetna.
Kids Help Line
A 24-hour telephone and online counseling service for children and young people in Australia.
Lifescape
A complete mental health site featuring chats and various educational articles, with an interest in recovery from addictions as well. Chats are open 24/7, plus scheduled chats with celebrities and featured speakers.
MacArthur Foundation Library Video Project
Information on videos dealing with mental illness and other topics.
Make A Noise On Line
Make A Noise is the central concept that has been adopted to engage young people in help-seeking behavior.
MedExplorer
An Internet health/medical search engine.
Mental Health Association in New York State
A voluntary, not-for-profit statewide association dedicated to ensuring that mental health policy is just and fair and that it promotes equality and opportunity.
Mental Health Association of Hong Kong
The Association is a nonprofit social welfare organization aiming at promoting mental health education and providing social and vocational rehabilitation services for persons with mental illness/disorders and mental handicaps.
Mental Health Association of Northern Kentucky
A private nonprofit agency serving Northern Kentucky. Organized in 1954, the Association has long been a leader in providing information and services to combat mental illness and to promote mental wellness.
Mental Health Center of North Central Alabama, Inc.
MHCNCA is a public, nonprofit corporation established to educate and assist people who are affected by mental health problems and to remain available for them as long as they need assistance.
Mental Health Council of Arkansas
The Mental Health Council of Arkansas is a nonprofit organization governed by a board of directors with a representative from each of the 13 participating private, nonprofit, community mental health centers and their affiliates.
Mental Health Foundation
Leading UK charity working in mental health and learning disabilities. Site includes news and events on mental health issues, as well as information on problems, treatments and strategies for living with mental distress.
Mental Health Information and Services
The Stark County (Ohio) Community Mental Health Board provides a system of care that includes a complete range of mental health programs and services for Stark County residents, their families and the general public.
Mental Health InfoSource
Resource site for mental health education.
Missouri Institute of Mental Health
Home page for the Missouri Institute of Mental Health and its Policy Information Exchange.
MyNDTALK
Relationship and mental health resources, mental health commentary and a link to a live relationship and mental-health radio program.
NAMI
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders. NAMI - There are two documents describing Medicare Part D in relation to people with psychiatric disabilities: a longer one and a shorter one.
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NARSAD
An organization formed from four major citizens' groups (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, National Mental Health Association, National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association and the Schizophrenia Research Foundation) in 1986.
National Foundation for Brain Research
An educational resource and referral center for those with a depressive disorder and addresses the issues and effects of depression in the workplace.
National Institute of Mental Health
The homepage for NIMH, the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the US government.
National Institute of Mental Health Publications on Suicide
This site, for the public and for professionals, links to several publication on suicide .
National Mental Health Association
NMHA is the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. With more than 340 affiliates nationwide, NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million individuals with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service. A consumer workbook in English and Spanish that provides comprehensive coverage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit in easy-to-understand language. There are also factsheets on different components of Part D on the NMHA website.
National Mental Health Information Center
A site developed by the National Center for Mental Health Services to provide information about mental health.
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
This site links to the full report on the goals and objectives of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, the Institute of Medicine's Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative, and the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Suicide.
Network on Psychopathology and Development
MacArthur Foundation-sponsored initiative to network and link researchers from diverse disciplines, to facilitate interdisciplinary communication and cross-fertilization, and to support the development and pilot testing of novel research approaches and methods.
Neuropsychiater
A German site that offers information (in both English and German) on neurobiological disorders.
New York City Voices
A journal in which mental health consumers, family members and professional helpers can let their voices be heard, providing mutual support for living the most empowered and independent lives possible.
NISA (Northern Initiative for Social Action)
Umbrella group for seven consumer/survivor-driven programs based in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Office of National Drug Control Policy
The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities and objectives for the nation's drug control program.
Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute
A valuable resource for comprehensive evaluation and management in neuropsychiatry and psychopharmacology at the clinical, research and forensic levels. Unique information on seizures, the brain, experience, the temporal lobe, head injury, deja vu and instruments.
Progress Foundation
Progress Foundation is a nonprofit agency that provides treatment and housing for people with mental health issues.
Psychiatry 24x7
Round-the-clock resources for psychiatry.
PsychNet-UK
A major psychology link site for mental health professionals, students or those just wanting to know more.
Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
This report by the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences covers the incidence, causes and prevention of suicide, as well as research into suicidality, treatments for people who are suicidal, and recommendations for reducing suicide.
Selective Mutism Group Inc.
Selective Mutism Group, Inc., an aggressive charitable organization uniting to educate those on the front line in the development of children affected by SM: parents, health professionals and teachers.
Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Association
Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) defined, with useful information to help people overcome social anxiety.
Stanley Neurovirology Laboratory
A lab at the Johns Hopkins Medical School devoted to the elucidation of the role of infection and immunity in the etiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Suite101.com—Depression
A weekly series of articles on depressive disorder, both informative and personal, plus annotated links to recommended websites.
Tarrant County (Texas) Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Collection of mental health-related information and links.
UNC Department of Psychiatry
Patient-oriented research and clinical programs emphasizing causes, diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of mental illnesses.
Victim Assistance Online
An online information, research and networking resource for victim-assistance specialists, professionals in related disciplines, and all interested in the field of victimology.
Wellness Reproductions & Publishing, Inc.
A hands-on resource center offering creative therapeutic and educational products focusing on mental health.
World Psychiatric Association
Organization for psychiatrists of different national and cultural origins, of different schools of thought, of various areas of interest and of diverging ideological proclivities. The WPA aspires to establish a worldwide front of professionals united in the pursuit of increased knowledge in the field and of greater capacity for the care of mental patients.
Yahoo—Mental Health
Yahoo's guide to mental health sites on the Internet.
Youth Suicide Prevention Information
A resource site containing information on the danger signs of suicide, what you should do when a child talks of suicide, suicide prevention and crisis intervention agencies, and youth crisis and information hotlines. | |
