Mental Health Portals: Great resources such as Mental Health Net and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Mental Health Meta Directories: Lists of lists that have direct links to specific resources.
Mental Health Search Services
Directories with Mental Health
Categories
Specialized Mental Health Searches and Information
Continuing Education, Case Consultations, Discussions
Educational Materials for Psychotherapy Available Online
Managed Care
Computers, Bots: from serious to silly
Mental Health Portals
With Professional and Public Areas
Mental Health Net, John M. Grohol
Extensive listing of professional and lay resources in subcategories and disorders. Has an internal search engine. Resources are reviewed and rated. Numerous other features.
National Institute of Mental Health
News, status reports on research areas, government/public mental health initiatives and much more.
At Health, Inc.
http://www.athealth.com
" Connecting Mental Health Resources, " John L. Miller, MD,
mailto:jlm@athealth.com
Publishes electronic newsletters. Friday's Progress Notes provides weekly mental health information emphasizing information and organizational resources. Diverse information and services on this site.
Mental Health Infosource
http://www.mhsource.com/
With a strong section on continuing education, including online credits, this portal also has the breadth that includes various info resources, a list of conditions, and interactives such as "Ask the Expert."
MetaDirectories For Mental Health
(Lists of Resources)
Updates to The Insider's Guide to MentalHealth Resources Online, John M. Grohol, Psy.D. "The online world is in a constant state of flux. On this site, Dr. John Grohol keeps you current on changes in Web (URL) and E-mail addresses since The Insider's Guide's publication. He also provides brief listings for important new mental health resources that have come online since the book's publication."
The Mining Company, Leonard Holmes, Ph.D
http://mentalhealth.miningco.com
** e-mail address needed "A sizable collection of mental health resources. The Mining
Company is an attempt to 'take back the net' by using human 'guides' to help people find the best resources." Has articles, also.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
(Including Psychiatry/Mental Health)
http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md-psych.html
hardin-webmaster@uiowa.edu
Various professional mental health resource lists.
Search Services
National Library of Medicine and MEDLINE
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
The world's largest medical libraray. Medline, in particular, is a very impressive database of medical and psychiatric information and articles.
The Informant
http://informant.dartmouth.edu
This service keeps an eye out for new web sites on subjects of your choice. It notifies you by e-mail so you can explore the new links. Try it with a new modality you're watching, or your family name, for that matter.
Newspage
http://www.newspage.com
Customizable news service that includes categories of interest to therapists such as psychiatry, managed care, addiction. They will e-mail it to you, or you can visit your customized selections. Particularly good for keeping an eye on industries, because it's glutted with press releases.
Directories, Search Engines
About.com
Mental Health Resources
A human-edited directory of professional and lay
information, with numerous subcategories.
Neuroscience section
More links to psychological journals
DMOZ
A human-edited directory of professional and lay
information, also known as ODP, or the Open Directory
Project.
Mental Health
Mental Health as a Social Issue
Mental Health Legal Issues
Mental Health Products and Services
Google
An excellent automated search engine.
Yahoo
Mental Health
Human edited directory with numerous mental health
subcategories for professional and lay information.
Specialized Information Services
RxList
http://www.rxlist.com/
info@rxlist.com
Search for information on over 2,000 drugs. Section on top 200 prescriptions. Includes alternative medicine section. A patient education section can help your clients understand medications and their use.
If you'd like, you can search it right now!
PsycLink
http://www.plattsburgh.edu/psyclink
E-mail:psyclink@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu
"The PsycLink Software Information Service provides comprehensive information about software for psychology instruction and research, and counseling practice. PsycLink also maintains a an archive for PC software.
Who's Who in Mental Health on the Web
http://idealist.com/wwmhw/
A directory of mental health professionals and their networking interests around the globe. Submit your entry. If you qualify, you're invited to join by submitting a free listing.
www.Health.gov
http://www.health.gov
dbaker@maple.os.dhhs.gov
http://www.nida.nih.gov
A place to dig for government info on programs, demographics, public health statistics and other official information.
"www.health.gov is a portal to the web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal Departments. The site is coordinated by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
Continuing Education, Consultations, Discussions
(Not Including Discussion Lists)
Behavior OnLine
http://www.behavior.net
boleditor@behavior.net
Lists some discussion groups and organizations. Has the Journal of Online Behavior.
audioPsych
http://www.audioPsych.com/
Online Continuing Education in Mental Health, delivered as spoken lectures accompanied by slides and other visual demonstrations. All courses are offered for continuing education credit. Courses are fee-based.
Educational Materials for Psychotherapy,
On Line
Climate Help
http://www.unsw.edu.au/clients/crufad/climate/climate.htm
lisah@crufad.unsw.edu.au
According to Martin Briscoe of Computers in Mental Health,"Well worth looking at. The download only took me 2.5 minutes. Climate Help can nowbe downloaded for free."
"Climate is essentially a computerised book containing something in theregion of 200-300 screens of information covering the assessment, diagnosis and managementof psychiatric illness. The assessment chapters contain flow charts forpresenting problems and new cases, a problem screening checklist and about 30 screens ontaking a psychiatric history and examining the mental state. The diagnosis chaptersgive the clinical features and differential diagnosis for about 20 of the major ICD-10categories. The management chapters provide essential information for patients andfamilies; specific counselling for patients and families; and information on medicationand when to seek a specialist opinion for each of the diagnostic ategories."
ManagedCare
Open Minds
http://www.openminds.com
Monica E. Oss, President, OPEN MINDS, 10 York Str, Ste 200, Gettysburg
PA 17325-2301, 717-334-1329, fax: 717-334-0538, email:
monicaoss@openminds.com
Managed care info and resources for therapists and administrators. Newsletter available for a fee. Publications, magazine and training available. Sponsorship of Managed Behavioral Health Care discussion list.
Managed Health Links
http://www.managedhealthlinks.com
"A user-friendly search tool that conveniently pinpoints targeted healthcare web site addresses on the Internet."
Managed Health Links functions much like a search engine, and provides links to the top managed care web sites in categories such as Associations, Pharmaceuticals, Journals, and Conferences. The site also lists upcoming conferences and trade shows.
Computers, Bots
Computers in Mental Health (CIMH) (Martin Briscoe)
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimh
Various resources, discussion list. Includes database of software used in mental health.
Eliza
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.htm
Developed in the mid-seventies, this chatter bot imitatesa Rogerian psychotherapist. Surprising abilities, given the program itself is very short.I played with this on a Kaypro computer with 64 kilobytes of RAM (memory) long ago.
Got a question for, um, her?
Eliza: Hello. I am ELIZA. How can I help you?
This will take you to the Elize page. Hit your back button when you're done.
Chatterbots
http://www.chatter-bots.com/
These programs that imitate human interaction or perform various search and interaction chores, such as shopping, news finding or negotiation. You can"communicate" with them through this site, and learn about them.
Social Action/Social Welfare
Join Together
http://www.jointogether.org
Join Together is a national resource centerfor communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence.
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