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Directory: Professional Mental Health Resources,
Reading, Reference, Tools, More
PsychIN Directory™
Resources for Mental Health Professionals
Specialized resources such as Reference Tools
Concept, organization, annotation, design: Robert
A. Yourell, LMFT
Emphasizing free clinical information via journals,
abstracts, media, reference, specialized search tools, portals,
and other professional resources, this collapsible outline of
annotated titles and links is organized by topic.
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- Specialized Resources
- Reference, Search, & Research Tools
- About this topic
- This area contains search, reference and research tools. Research tools are specialized resources distinguished from search tools. Topical and general tools are included here.
- Reference
- Lists of Reference Resources
- Research Literature (ForensicProductLine.com)
- Clinical
- Phobia List
- Statistics on Mental Health
- Topical
- Legal
- See also Law and Ethics in the Practice Topics area.
- Licensing Boards Lists
- Addiction, Drug Abuse
- Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade (US ODCP)
- Social Science
- Social Science Dictionaries (Google Directories)
- Insurance, Billing
- General
- Mental Health
- Encyclpedia of Psychology
- Encyclopedia of the Mind (Plebius)
- Online Dictionary of Mental Health
- Medical
- General
- Directories of Medical Reference Tools
- Medical Reference (Google Directory)
- Dictionaries
- Directories of Medical Dictionaries
- Medical Dictionaries (Google Directories)
- Specific Medical Dictionaries
- Medical Dictionary, Merriam Webster
- Medline
- Glossaries
- Glossary On-Line: Psychiatry
- A glossary of terms used in psychiatry. Some defintions contain links to other resources developed by Psychiatry On-line.
- http://www.priory.com/gloss.htm
LINK >http://www.priory.com/gloss.htm
- Encyclopedias
- Medical Encyclopedia (US Medline)
- Multiple Reference Tools
- Look it Up (Intellihealth)
- Pharmaceutical Drug Reference
- DrugInfo offers the most professional information located for this category.
- Professional
- DrugInfo (Medscape)
- The Orange Book (FDA)
- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, various search types, including active ingredient.
- http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm
LINK >http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm
- RX List
- Public Targeted
- Drug Information (US Medline)
- Med Master
- Consumer-oriented searchable drug database based on The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists ASHP Medication Teaching Manual: The Guide to Patient Drug Information, "a publication developed for use in patient-education programs conducted by health-care professionals..."
- http://www.safemedication.com/About/medMaster.cfm
LINK >http://www.safemedication.com/About/medMaster.cfm
- Search for Articles, Chapters & More
- Most of these search tools pull from a large number of journals. Other types of searches are included here as well.
- Some of the listings in "Journals, Magazines, Article Collections" may have good article search features, but were not yet listed here because they were not available when reviewed, or we missed them. And remember that many journals have their own search features. Most major sites have search services, and that their holdings can be very large. See the Major Resources or Portals area for these. Online Libraries may also have what you need, but usually for a fee.
- Clinical Practice: Psychotherapy, Assessment, Etc.
- Clinical & Counselling Psychology (JournalSeek.net)
- General Mental Health
- Extensa
- PsycArticles Database (APA)
- APA's Full-Text Journal Article Database. View abstracts at no charge. Sign up to be notified of updates to online journals.
- http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/
LINK >http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/
- Medscape Advanced Search
- Mentalhelp.net
- "Search For Scientific Articles and Book Chapters"
- "The following databases contain citations and abstracts for published research in the social and biomedical sciences for the last 30 or so years. Search on a keyword, and the database will return a list of journal articles and book chapters that are relevant to that keyword. You can generally find the actual journal articles and book chapters in a well-stocked university library." (12/04)
- http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=1418&PHPSESSID=fc5f77115722f224436d8c0f8635622f
LINK >http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=1418&PHPSESSID=fc5f77115722f224436d8c0f8635622f
- PILOTS Database (via Nat'l Center for PTSD)
- It indicates if full text is available.
- User Manual (PDF)
- The Database: BibleoLine Basic
- Free Use Version
- NISC International Home Page
- PsycArticles Direct (APA)
- PsychCrawler.com (APA)
- This pulls articles from a limited number of approved sites, and from APA publications. The articles are not necessarily for professionals, but usually are.
- "PsycCrawler® is a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology."
- http://www.psychcrawler.com/
LINK >http://www.psychcrawler.com/
- Psychology (JournalSeek.net)
- PSYCLINE
- Search for journals and articles. Large database.
- "PSYCLINE is owned and managed by psychologist Dr. Armin Günther, University of Augsburg, Germany. The website started in 1995 under its former name Links to Psychological Journals and has won a high reputation as one of the (if not as the) most comprehensive and up-to-date index of psychology and social science journals on the web."
- http://www.psycline.org/journals/psycline.html
LINK >http://www.psycline.org/journals/psycline.html
- PubMed (NLM, US)
- Citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's, links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
- Full Text "Link Out" Journals
- Sage Publications
- Fee-based, institutional book, journal, and citation management services.
- "Sage does not provide reprints in quantities under 100 but you may order back issues of the issue containing the article. To place an order for fewer than 100 copies, please contact Sage Customer Care at (800) 818-7243 or (805) 499-9774." (11/04)
- Home page
- About SAGE
- Journals Online
- Some articles have abstracts. Good search feature, browse topics, browse journals. Numerous mental health and human services subjects.
- http://online.sagepub.com/
LINK >http://online.sagepub.com/
- Content Alerts
- Journals Home Page
- US Government Behavioral Sciences Publications (Storming Media)
- Psychiatric
- See the Larger Publisher Collections and other psychiatric topics and Search Tools for access to larger numbers of articles.
- American Psychiatric Publishing free online articles
- MHSource.com
- The article holdings appear to be from a limited number of publications within the family of the publisher, and including Psychiatric Times. (11/04)
- http://www.mhsource.com/
LINK >http://www.mhsource.com/
- Psychiatric Services
- See the features page, this has many features, including pay-per-article or pay for full access. Reasonable fee for full-access option. Includes cross-journal search. Reference citations in article link directly to the articles to which they refer. You can browse this resource for free to see what it contains. Most articles are in both PDF and HTML. (11/04)
- Main Page
- Features
- Archive of All Online Issues
- General, Not Limited to Mental Health
- These resources are not limited to mental health, but include mental health and clinical practice articles. Some have mental health categories.
- CrossRef Search
- Join via ACA registration for free.
- "Please note that CrossRef does not host the full text or abstracts of any journals. CrossRef enables linking to and from the journals included here."
- "In order to open published scholarly content for the first time to free, full-text interpublisher searchability, a group of 29 leading journal publishers are participating in a CrossRef Search Pilot.
- Google has indexed the full text of scholarly journal articles on the publishers' websites through a CrossRef gateway. Users may submit searches from CrossRef Search Pilot boxes on participating publishers' sites. Results are returned from Google using the Google search and ranking algorithms, and using the article's DOI whenever possible to link from the search results to the published article.
- The purpose of the Pilot, which will run during 2004, is to determine the value to the scholarly community of a free, federated, full-text, interdisciplinary, interpublisher search focussed on the peer-reviewed scholarly literature."
- Search on psychotherapy yielded: "about 53,500. Search took 0.42 seconds."
- About
- Dekker.com
- EurekAlert Advanced Search
- "EurekAlert! is an online press service created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The primary goal of EurekAlert! is to provide a forum where research institutions, universities, government agencies, corporations and the like can distribute science-related news to reporters and news media. The secondary goal of EurekAlert! is to archive these press releases and make them available to the public in an easily retrievable system."
- http://www.eurekalert.org/search.php
LINK >http://www.eurekalert.org/search.php
- FindArticles.com
- HighWire (Library of Sciences and Medicine)
- Search their hosted journals (large number, including Medline journals). Various features.
- http://highwire.stanford.edu/
LINK >http://highwire.stanford.edu/
- Jake
- "What jake does is allow you to find out where a title is available, either in full-text or citation and abstracts. It does NOT allow you to search for specific articles -- just journal titles and databases."
- "a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. Jake does this by managing online resource metadata with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to add a local holdings layer."
- 11/04
- http://jake-db.org/docs/about.php
LINK >http://jake-db.org/docs/about.php
- Instant Jake on Your Web Page
- JournalSeek.net (Genamics)
- Many mental health categories allow you to find relevant journals, and the listing indicates whether articles are available online. All articles are probably fee-based access.
- Says their site: "Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet (sic)."
- (11/04)
- http://journalseek.net/
LINK >http://journalseek.net/
- Fee-Based Journal & Book Aggregators
- All but Ovid are institutional services. Some allow access to abstracts free online. (11/04)
- Ovid
- Fee-based aggregator of publications that include many mental health and psychiatry-related journals. Register for price quotes. Individuals may purchase items or subscriptions. (11/04)
- Ovid PayPerView
- Ovid's PayPerView service enables clinicians, students and researchers to expand their information reach by purchasing immediate access to the full text content in Journals@Ovid to which their institution has not subscribed. This service is available to customers searching in Ovid and by users who want to link to Ovid full text from external sites.
LINK >mailto:Journals@Ovid
- http://www.ovid.com/site/products/services/payperview.jsp?top=2&mid=3&bottom=9&subsection=20
LINK >http://www.ovid.com/site/products/services/payperview.jsp?top=2&mid=3&bottom=9&subsection=20
- Personalized Updates
- Research Tools & Assistance
- Not just search tools! Have a look.
- Human Help with Mental Health Research
- This category allow you to get human assistance with research.
- U of Mich Helpline
- MH and Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive, ICPSR, University of Michigan
- Toll Free Helpline: 1-888-741-7242
- MIT Open Courseware
- Recommended reading, suggested resource links, course outline, and other materials. It normally does not contain a significant amount of text to read for educational purposes. The reading links typically go to abstracts or book listings, not full text.
- Master Course List
- Spark Notes
- A large, free repository of summaries that provide well-organized information pertaining to college subjects. There is a psychology category with topics such as brain anatomy, personality, and memory. (1/05)
- http://www.sparknotes.com
LINK >http://www.sparknotes.com
- News and Timely Reading Zones
- About this topic
- Here reside current and archived news and timely reading from diverse resources. Some of the news resources cull mental health topics from the popular press. Many of the resources have free newsletters.
- The Topical section of this area makes it easy to scan a variety of news sources without hunting in the top-level Topical area.
- News Alerts provide news articles or links directly to you via email on specific topics that you create. This way even general news sources become your own specialized clipping services. For example, Google News Alerts can notify you of new popular press articles on subjects such as "psychotherapy" or by combining terms.
- Unfortunately, as of this writing, local announcements of small-time public talks and local practices dilute the news alerts, and any unrelated articles that use your search terms will show up. For example, the term "brainwave" is slang for a fresh idea, so it yields all sorts of irrelevant articles.
- News Alerts, Customized
- Google News Alerts
- Receive links to articles about keywords you select. Consider: psychotherapy, psychotherapist, "mental health," etc. However, the articles are breezey mainstream news. Local, commonplace announcements dilute the value even more.
- http://www.google.com/newsalerts?hl=en
LINK >http://www.google.com/newsalerts?hl=en
- Science Daily Alerts
- Clinical: Psychotherapy, Assessment, Etc.
- Want more clinical info? The General topic has plenty of clinically significant and timely material. The Psychiatric area is, of course, also clinical, and offers much more than material on medication.
- New Therapist
- Science Daily
- Don't be fooled by the name, this is not just about science. As of this writing, it was doing a better job of pulling up valuable articles for professionals than the news alert services or public periodical searches. However, beware that the article lists are not entirely faithful to their topic areas. The deeper you get into the Science Daily directory structure, the more faulty the listings become. For example, the alternative psychology link displayed articles simply because they included the word alternative.
Keep to the higher levels such as Mind and Brain, and Psychology. The Health area also has many mental health articles. There are plenty of topical links for navigation.
A click on the Links tab showed The PsychIN Directory™, but it was provided by The Open Directory Project.
They had an encyclopedia accessible from their home page, but is was provided by Wikipedia Encyclopedia, a semi-anarchistic but sincere and interesting resource that includes many links to resources.
Even though the news is often less helpful deeper in The PsychIN Directory™ structure, you can use these deeper topics as a specialized alternative search directory for articles, or a quick tab click into the Open Directory Project's topic for resource links. I don't know what aggregators provide their articles.
There are links to related discussion groups, that appear to come from Google Groups.
LINK >http://www.dmoz.org
- Advanced Search of Archives
- Counseling Services
- Clinical and Counseling Psychology
- Behavioral Medicine
- Topics (MentalHelp.net)
- Reading Room (Professional Development Resources)
- Topical
- The topics in this area are usually fairly broad, and the reading tends to include material that exceeds the topic.
- Disorders, Diagnoses
- General
- Mental Health Disorders (Science Daily)
- Sub-Topics
- Addiction Headlines (Intellihealth)
- ADD (Psychiatry24x7.com)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder & Impulsive Spectrum Letter (Psychiatric Times)
- Depression Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Neurological Disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury
- Neurological Disorders (Brain.net)
- TBI News
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma
- NCPTSD.org PTSD Articles
- News (Empty-Memories.nl)
- Smoking Cessation Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Issues & Populations
- Sexuality (Science Daily)
- Gender and Sexuality (Science Daily)
- Stress
- Stress Reduction Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Professional Practice
- Law & Ethics
- HealthLaw.org
- Treatment Advocacy Center (PsychLaws)
- Advocacy Newsletters (American Psychiatric Association)
- Professional Resources
- Professional Resources (Science Daily)
- Field of Interest
- Professional Fields, Settings & Services
- Fields
- Employee Assistance
- Neurology, Neuropsychology
- Neurology.org
- American Academy of Neurology
- Neuropsychology (Science Daily)
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Sociology, Social Science
- Social Science (Science Daily)
- Sociology (Science Daily)
- Treatment Methods, Modalities
- Biofeedback, Neurofeedback
- Other Areas of Interest
- Health/Well Being News, Articles
- Mental health news often appears in the health and well being news areas.
- General
- General Health Headlines
- Health (Science Daily)
- Health and Medicine (Science Daily)
- Health News (Google News)
- Health News (US Medline)
- Intellihealth News
- Topical
- Alternative Medicine Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Fitness Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Men's Health Headlines
- Prevention Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Sexual/Reproductive Health Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Women's Health Headlines (Intellihealth)
- Workplace Health Headlines
- Medical News, Articles
- MedNews (NewsWise)
- Although it is a press release feed, they only allow prestigious institutions to submit, and there is good quality here. See the news releases the mainstream news likes to butcher and spin.
- http://www.newswise.com/libraries/mednews/
LINK >http://www.newswise.com/libraries/mednews/
- Search Topic Archives
- WebMD News
- Science
- General Mental Health, Psychology
- About this topic
- Here you will find several lifetimes' worth of clinically relevant, timely material. Some resources that don't seem very inviting may surprise you. APA Press Releases can provide a fast look at current research, trends and what not, covering a broad view pretty quickly.
- In The Spotlight (About.com)
- Alley Dog for psych students
- APA Humanistic Psych Div.
- APA Position Papers
- In a column on this page. This is actually the press release page. These papers could be helpful in better expressing yourself regarding social issues relevant to mental health.
- http://www.apa.org/releases/
LINK >http://www.apa.org/releases/
- APA Press Releases
- American Psychological Association shows current releases, and has a searchable archive. Researchers, institutions and APA's journal produce press releases about journal articles, issues and so forth. This is a way to get summaries of new articles and other timely information. (11/04)
- http://www.apa.org/releases/
LINK >http://www.apa.org/releases/
- Behavior Online
- Harvard Mental Health Letter
- Fee-based subscription required.
- Intellihealth Mental Health
- MentalHelp.net
- Mix of public, professional interest and press releases.
- News
- Reading Room
- Perspectives
- Mental Health (Science Daily)
- Mental Health Foundation
- Mind and Brain News (Science Daily)
- Monitor on Psychology (APA)
- Professional Resources (About.com)
- As of 10/04, this isn't a typical news or reading zone, but it has timely reading. The articles are not organzed by category.
- The layout could confuse you, so heed this advice: First, the resources run down the middle and are in the somewhat larger type size. The categories off to the left are not professional resources, they appear on all the mental health pages. Second, after the first few listings, ad-supported listings appear. Don't stop! The listings continue after this and go on for several pages.
- Also important: you can quickly find yourself in the consumer-oriented holdings by clicking on category links, especially the ones on the left.
- http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/professionalstuff/index.htm?terms=mental+health+professional+resources
LINK >http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/professionalstuff/index.htm?terms=mental+health+professional+resources
- Psychology News (Plebius)
- PsycPort (APA)
- Psychology News (Science Daily)
- PsychWatch News
- Pulse
- A unique resource with diverse mental health content that includes organizational, social and political issues.
- It has topical areas, free subscription.
- "PULSE is a free service of the Centre for Community Change International, gathering new and noteworthy Internet resources for mental health providers, family members of individuals with mental illness, consumers of mental health services and consumer advocates. PULSE is researched, edited and designed by Bill Davis."
- http://radio.weblogs.com/0108660/
LINK >http://radio.weblogs.com/0108660/
- Science Daily Additional Relevant News Topics
- Below are main categories. From those pages you will find myriad subcategories. Just remember that it is based on search technology, so there will be overlap and inaccuracy, especially if you drill deeper into the categories. Social Work, for example, had nothing on social work, but did have an article on dolphin brain evolution. Of course, there should have been one on dolphin use of social services.
- Also, when you have the option to go to Summaries or Headlines, bear in mind that you will see the same articles, just a different presentation, with Summaries including some lead text to help you decide whether to read the article. (11/04)
- Mind & Brain News
- Headlines, Chronological
- Main Page
- As of 11/04, there was no added value to this page, go to the Headlines or Summaries pages. Same articles, just two different formats.
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain.htm
LINK >http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain.htm
- Headlines, Chronological, with Summaries
- Social Sciences News
- Social Behavioral News (Eurekalert)
- From here you can access a large number of mental health topics, such as addictions, psychology and homelessness. The mental health category gives the broadest headlines, as far as I can tell. Use the drop down menu. (11/04)
- http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/social.php
LINK >http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/social.php
- Psychology News (Eurekalert)
- WebMD Mental Health
- Psychiatric
- Psychiatry News (Medscape)
- Psychiatry and Mental Health Recently Posted Content (Medscape)
- Psychiatric Times
- Psychiatric News (American Psychiatric Association Newspaper)
- Psychiatry News (Science Daily)
- Psychiatry 24 7
- Psychopharmacology News (Science Daily)
- Top Psychiatry Articles (MD Linx)
- Biomedical, Health
- Medicine & Health News Topics (Science Daily)
- Conditions & Diseases (Science Daily)
- Health & Medicine News (Science Daily)
- Health
- Medicine & Health (EurekAlert)
- Medication News Topics (Science Daily)
- High-level categories, there are many subcategories.
- Drugs & Medicine News
- Pharmacology News (Science Daily)
- Discussion Forums Online
- About this topic
- This area, Discussion Forums Online includes general and topical forums. Within any forum, however, diverse topics, resources and news come up. The discussion threads (internal topics) can only be found in searches if the forum is open to the search engines, or if you are a member and use the internal search or follow the forum.
- You can select an appropriate forum, sign up, and begin a discussion on the topic by asking a question or posting an opinion or resource for feedback. You may participate in discussions on the topic that have already been initiated.
- Some forums are accessed online, while others send email to you. In the latter case, you should set up a separate folder for that discussion group, or at least for discussion groups in general. Otherwise, you may miss other email, or have trouble following the threads. Remember to white list the forum in your spam filter. Do not post your email address on discussion lists that are open to search engines, unless the address is disposable, because of spam.
- To save time, rather than deleting emails individually, you might want to scan for interes
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