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who support our mission, communicate and advocate. We cannot provide
any warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability
or completeness of furnished data. If you doubt any of our
information, check it against the multidisciplinary research
sources.
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While we will make every effort to provide
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telephone numbers, links to other sites, etc. may change prior to
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improvement, please use the email address, which is at the bottom of
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Cautions about using
Internet
Internet provides a wealth of information, but
that information can be good, bad, or indifferent.
Your most reliable
information will come from the National Institutes of Health,
Institute of Medicine, Center for Disease Control, and the major
multidisciplinary university research centers.
Next in order are the
professional societies that subscribe to multidisciplinary research
and treatment approaches. These usually have the word society
or academy in their name, such as the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Associations
are frequently a form of trade association. These may be promoting
the use of their members, and single discipline theories. These may
be good, but their information should be checked against the
multidisciplinary sources.
The national advocacy
groups can be a good source of information, which is written for
people who have a mental disorder and their families. The major
advocacy groups have professional advisors and groups that review the
literature and videotapes that they list. We advise checking
information from these sites against the multidisciplinary
professional sources until you are comfortable with the reliability
of the site.
At the bottom of the
reliability order are the sites that want to sell you something. This
is often the case with natural remedies and food supplements. Check
with a number of sites, with books in your library, and with your
friends. If you are under professional care, discuss the use of these
supplements with your health care provider, some may interact with
prescription medications.
In our "issue papers" we are trying to
provide reliable information. Even here we encourage "healthy
skepticism." If in doubt check it out! Internet opens a wealth of
information so that you can check things out. If you find a an error
in our work, please let us know.
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Date Last Modified:
5/7/01