Eastern State Hospital Mental Health Library

InteliHealth
Based at Johns Hopkins University, the InteliHealth site provides links
to pages from the American Medical Asssociation site and the National Institutes
of Health site, as well as, an "Ask a Doc" service, information on prescription
drugs, and a link to Medline databases.

CornellCARES
CornellCares.com offers innovative yet sensible practice tools, information, and resources to make
geriatric mental health and psychosocial assessments and interventions
easier and more effective for all health care practitioners.

Image of a woman showing signs of mental stress and medical image of a man National Institute of Mental Health
This government sponsored Web site features the latest studies and advances in research. Here you can look into
participating in clinical trials that have posted notices for volunteers, and review straightforward
descriptions of diseases and treatment, with long list of organizations
to contact for more information. The site lets you order free publications
on topics such as "What to do when a friend is depressed"
and "A consumer's guide to mental health services."
The site is geared toward practitioners and researchers as well as the public,
this site ends up being less consumer-friendly than others.

Reuters Health Information Service
A selection of current news articles on health issues.
There is also a link to MedLine on this site.

Mental Health Net
An award winning guide to mental health, psychology and
psychiatry on line sponsored by CMHC Systems.
Mental health net is searchable and easy to navigate,
number resources indexed is 9,300. Learn about disorders and treatment, search the professional resources,
read free online books: Psychological self-help, and self-help Sourcebook online.
The professional resources are excellent and contain such items as Professional licensure information, DSM Diagnostic Criteria, DSM-IV Codes and much more.

Cinematherapy
One of the most complete sites on the web today regarding the serious
use of film in therapy for healing and growth.

The American Psychiatric Association
This site is filled with a wide variety of ijformation on mental disorders,
the professional association itself, consumer-oriented "Let's Talk Facts" brochures, and a whole lot of information for psychiatrists and laypeople.

The National Mental Health Consumer's Self-Help Clearinghouse.

Web of Addictions
A large, comprehensive site with information on drug and addiction topics.Contains a global listing of fact sheets on addictions.

National Institute on Drug Abuse
Education resources & materials on drugs of abuse, marijuana, ecstasy, smoking, steroids, cocaine, to name a few.For the health professional there is information on grants & funding, treatment prevention research, clinical resources, workshops,and conferences.

Alzheimer's Outreach
Alzheimer's Outreach provides education and information for families/caregivers, as well as educating the general public and health professionals about Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders.

The Alzheimer's Association
Alzheimers Disease Association The national Alzheimer's Association. Provides information about Alzheimer's disease,
resources, research...clinical studies, warning signs, related disorders, publications and web links.

National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education
Special Education & Learning Disabilities Resources: A Nationwide Directory ... National Association for Parents with Exception Children. Contains resources for assessment process for ADHD, Autism and dyslexia. Brief
explanation of learning disabilities and the assessment process. Therapy and educational alternatives.

Wing of Madness: A Depression Guide
A consumer's guide to depression, with articles about depression, links and a
depression news weblog. Supportive forum with message board and chat for.

Image Bizarre I are a distored image of a man Schizophrenia
The Leading Independent Information Source on Schizophrenia Diagnosis,
Treatments, News, Blogs, On-line Schizophrenia Support Groups and Chat
and Education

Encyclopedia of Human Illnesses and Behavioral Health
The Encyclopedia of Human Illnesses and Behavioral Health contains detailed
articles about a variety of conditions and treatment advice.

ElderWeb
A huge resource of elderly resources, including topics on health, living arrangements, dying,
financial, social, mental, spiritual and many other aspects of aging.

Child Psychology Center
Psychology information for teenagers, students, parents and professionals
on a variety of topics including eating disorders, self-injury, and youth violence

Clinically Psyched
This site is dedicated to bringing readers breaking news on clinical psychology, abnormal psychology,
neuroscience, psychopharmacology, neurotheology, cognitive psychhology,
developmental psychology, mental illness, clinical diagnosis, psychiatry,
psychopathology, sociopathology, and other fields relating to biological psychology.

Crazy Meds
An unconventional mental health resource, created and updated by a patient for
patients, features informal commentaries on personal experiences with psychiatric medications.
Discussion pages include: 12 Steps to Staying on Medications, Support Groups-Why You Need Them,
Crazy Meds support Forum, and many pages on various medications.

Internet Mental Health
A free encyclopedia of mental health information. Contains information on
each of the most common mental disorders, information booklets, magazine
articles, research information, treatment information, online diagnosis
programs, medications and links to the most popular mental health sites.

Healthfinder

A link to health resources recommended by the U.S. Government. Searching
this site will provide you with a list of online resources and/or organizations
you can contact to find out more about a particular health condition. There
are also links to online medical journals, state health departments and
audiovisual resources.


SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center
The United States Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services. Contains a wealth of information resources onn mental health. Publications, description of mental disorders and latest news.

Mental Health Matters
Offers mental health, self-help and psychology information and resources.

American Self-help Group Clearinghouse: Self-help Group Sourcebook
This site has been developed to act as a starting point for exploring real-life support groups
and networks that are available throughout the world and in your community.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

About Psychotherapy
Everything you always wanted to know baout psychotherapy, the different types, and what it is (and isn't).

Self-Harm
Offers information about self-harming behaviors, self-mutilation, self-abuse, and cutting.
Offers alternatives to self-injury, support groups, and stories, and a way to stay safe.

Trauma Info Pages
A great set of resources that focus primarily on emotional trauma and
traumatic stress, including PTSD, whether following inddividual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster.

Alternative Mental Health Online
The largest internet site on alternative mental health, containing articles
testimonals, a bookstore, and the net's only directory of alternative mental
health practitioners.

Some myths about mental illness Art Against Stigma
This web site is dedicated to fight stigma in mental health through art.

BDDCentral
This site on Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) was created by a support group
full of BDD suffers, for other suffers and their family members. It includes
both
clinical type information, and personal information, which
cannot be found anywhere else. A well-designed, useful site.

PubMed
PubMed PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes
over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for
biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million articles.

Medline Plus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions.
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches
are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles.
MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Geropsychology Central
Online resources devoted to the study of neurological, psychological,
and sociological aspects of the aging process.

Administration on Aging

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