Mental Health – Other sites of interest

Mental health

At Health – Covers mental health diseases and conditions. Newsletter, practitioner directory, treatment center directory, featured articles, and a bookstore.

Internet Mental Health – The 52 most common mental disorders, medications, news, recovery stories, links.

Help Center – Information on many topics including family and relationships. Quality articles and a resource for finding psychologists. Resources for dealing with everyday problems. From the American Psychological Association.

First Person – Provides accounts, opinion, poetry and artwork by people who have mental health conditions.

The Madness Group – Creates a decentralized electronic forum and distribution device. People who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions can exchange strategies for changing existing public mental health systems, and provide each other mutual support.

Psychology Today – Featured columns on relationships, mental health education, and work related issues.

Planet Psych – Offers information about disorders, treatments, self-help techniques, therapist directory, interactive quizzes, a bulletin board, and a chance to receive free answers from a therapist to your questions.

@ease – Unique and interactive site. A journey of exploration of feelings and how to help put your mind at ease. Problems told through the eyes of characters on the site, offering helpful information.

BBC Mental Health – Aims to help people understand the range of mental health conditions, promote positive emotional health, and provide information and resources for getting help and treatment.

Psybersquare – Using hosted chat, interactive exercises, motivational informative articles, and Ask the Expert Boards, Psybersquare helps with everyday problems at work and home.

Healing Hug – Inspiring stories of healing through love, faith, hope. Overcoming adversities such as sickness, depression, alzheimer’s disease, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Mayo Clinic: Mental Health Center – Mental illness is the second leading cause of disability and early death in developed countries. Definitions of mental health conditions, current news and treatments.

A Thoughtful Moment – Positive and inspirational messages. Mental health resources on depression, relationships, stress, and grief issues.

Mental Health Resources – Mental health resources from all over the Net along with regular original features from about.com.

Mental Health Recovery – Articles on recovery from the label of mental illness, self-help, rehabilitation information, and news about the recovery model.

Twilight Bridge – Offers an open counseling forum, newsletter, mental health videos, and links to mental health resources.

The Mental Health Foundation – Information about mental health issues and the work of the Foundation. Definitions, resources, and links to mental health information sources.

WebMD – Mental Health – Consumer health information on mental health, written and reviewed by WebMD doctors.

InteliHealth – Mental Health – Diagnosis and treatment information, medical commentaries, and news on a wide range of mental health issues.

Connects – Mental health and learning disabilities portal. A worldwide, interactive, personalised forum for the sharing of information by people whose lives are touched by mental health problems and/or learning disabilities. (requires registration)

Psyc Port – News about psychology and mental health.

allPsych – Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.

Coping.org – Free onsite manuals for coping with a variety of life’s stressors including: variety of adult mental health issues and parenting especially dealing with children with disabilities.

Spokane Recovery Index – E-learning tutorial on the recovery model. Educational resources to promote utilization of evidence based best practices in psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery from mental illness and disability. For consumers and professionals.

The Tidal Model of Mental Health Recovery – Based on research, involving consumers and professionals, the Tidal Model is currently the subject of an international evaluation. Theory, testimonials, and references.

Mental Health News – Mental health newspaper for consumers, families, clinicians, providers, and students with topics about mental illness, treatment options, and resources in the community.

NorthEast Health Realization Institute NEHRI – Health Realization Model, an approach for prevention of problem behaviors through books, training, coaching. Three principles for parenting, mental health, education, and well-being from the inside-out.

Campus Blues – Developed in cooperation with college and university counseling centers throughout the United States and Canada to improve student awareness of resources for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and loneliness.

Denver Branch Of The International Traumatology Institute – Training And Preparation for helping other in crisis situations!

Other Useful Health Web Links
National Institutes of Health (NIH) – US Government department in charge of medical research.

AHRQ: Clinical Information – Clinical information on evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines, medical effectiveness, pharmaceutical therapy, new technology, screening and preventive services, outcomes research, and the National Guideline Clearinghouse.

The UK Health Technology Assessment Programme – Site contains details of program’s many projects and publications; an NHS national research and development initiative.

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) – Panel of health care experts that evaluates the latest scientific evidence on clinical preventive services.

Controlled Trials from History – A historical examination of research methods designed to reduce biases in studies assessing the effects of health care, social care and education. Contains many images of historical items.

WebExhibits Directory-Medicine – Interesting topics in biomedicine.

Center for Evidence-Based Medicine – Includes introductory tutorials on practising and teaching evidence-based medicine.

Inside Medicine – Sells descriptions of current research on a wide variety of diseases and medical conditions.

Academic Info: Health and Medicine – An annotated directory of Internet resources on Health and Medicine.

SoCRA – Educational and charitable nonprofit membership organization, offering educational programming and certification to clinical (health care) research professionals and others interested in clinical(health care)research.

Bio-Forum.net – Research discussion group.

Australian Association of Academic General Practice – A non-profit association to further research and teaching by general practice physicians in Australia.

Chinese Cochrane Evidence-Based Medicine Centre – Preparing, maintaining, and promoting accessibility of high quality systematic reviews for health care decision-makers to improve clinical practice and use health resources more efficiently.

Survey Research Group – Offers medical research questionnaires, women’s health research, industry analysis, and health statistics in the medical research field.

Medical Hypotheses – A forum for the presentation and criticism of ideas in medicine and the related biomedical sciences.

AllExperts Medical Research Q&A – Experts volunteer to answer questions related to locating medical resources on the internet.

Evidence-based Decision Making – The primary purpose of this site is to support health care decision making. Includes summarized key articles, through the use of a critical appraisal journal club, application of EBDM principles and links to related sites.

Life and Molecular Medicine – Interesting, eclectic collection of information and links regarding the latest developments in this new field and how these advances relate to your life.

Daedalus Medical Research – Providing evidence-based evaluations of new and current technologies in surgery by a select group of specialists.

Medical News Headlines – Links to latest five top medical news headline stories by Moreover Technologies, Inc.

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