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We have collected thousands of links and resources and organized them, but we
have even more to come. We are also working simultaneously on a major medical,
health resource page. Please check back in a few month for improved resources.
| The Smokeless Side
- a
self help book with cartoons for smoking cessation and prevention
Why the cartoons? -
because humor is a healthy defense, and is far better than denial ! Supportive
text and tips are included.
Contents Testimonials
To own a copy
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Relaxation: Enjoy our free "e-z
load online big screen videos", nature scenes at the lake.
Note cards: Send note cards for all occasions.
(Highlight the URLs of these sites, copy (Ctr + C) and paste it (Ctr +V) in
your e-mail suggesting that they look up the pictures [flowers,
cartoons, motivational
quotes, jokes, or the above video clips].)
A resource to increase your empathy & understanding
of your patients:
virtual psychosis, virtual paranoia, virtual depression, virtual bipolar disorders,
with special effects - in progress.
Editorial Board,
(invitation)
After the full development of these sites, we plan to invite candidates to our
Editorial Board. If you are interested, please let us know. If you know someone
who would be an asset to our Editorial Board please let us know with the contact
e-mail address, or Fax number. We are also working simultaneously on other medical
specialties, and subspecialties to provide a major medical and health care site.
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and patient advocacy groups: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill : http://www.nami.org/,
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| See also: Associations and organizations listed under the different schools of therapy (use the "drop down menu" above). See also: American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/, http://mentalhealth.about.com/health/mentalhealth/msub13.htm, or by States: http://mentalhelp.net/guide/pro86.htm, Scholarly Societies: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html, Professional Organizations: http://healthcare.monster.com/links/ , |
Expert Consensus Guidelines - Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: http://www.psychguides.com/gl-treatment_of_bipolar_disorder.html,
Guidelines for the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, in HTML : http://www.psychguides.com/bpgl.html,
A Guide for Patients and Families, in HTML : http://www.psychguides.com/bphe.html,
and in Spanish: - El Tratamiento del Disturbio Bipolar Guia Para Los Pacientes
y las Familias : http://www.psychguides.com/bphs.html,
Expert Consensus Guidelines Medication Treatment of Bipolar Disorder 2000 (downloads
in Adobe Acrobat PDF format):
http://www.psychguides.com/gl-treatment_of_bp2000.html,
| Cross reference from our Depression page: |
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The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners Guidelines for
Primary Care Providers - |
| Cross reference from our Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective d/o page: |
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Expert Consensus Guidelines Treatment of Schizophrenia 1999 (downloads
in Adobe Acrobat PDF format): |
| General only: (http://www.guideline.gov/body_home_nf.asp?view=home) , NGC Disease/Condition: http://www.guideline.gov/BROWSE/mesh_tree.asp?leftkey=36460&rightkey=51219&LevelNum=2, |
Textbooks:
(links open in "new window")
1, Mood Disorders (U.I.): http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/Chapter15/01-15.html,
2, Crisis Intervention Techniques for the Suicidal Patient (UI/E.Psy.): http://www.vh.org/Providers/Lectures/EmergencyMed/Psychiatry/SuicideCrisis.html,
3, Medical Emergencies in Psychiatry: Common Overdoses - As Suicide Attempts
: http://www.vh.org/Providers/Lectures/EmergencyMed/Psychiatry/MedEmergOD.html,
4, Depression [Merck Manual]: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section15/chapter189/189b.htm,
and
5, Dysthymic Disorder [Merck Manual]: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section15/chapter189/189c.htm,
6, From the Mood Disorders [Merck Manual]: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section15/chapter189/189a.htm,
7, Suicidal behavior [Merck Manual]: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section15/chapter190/190a.htm,
11, On Sleep Hygiene (Psychiatry Notebook): http://www.fpnotebook.com/PSY101.htm,
12, Depression and Low Self-Esteem (Psychological Self-Help):
http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap6/,
13, How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Melba Colgrove, Harold Bloomfield,
and Peter McWilliams : http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/sur/srtoc.htm,
14, Free book related to assertiveness - negotiation:
You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen : http://www.bb.com/looptestlive.cfm?bookid=1574&startrow=2
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15, see Borderline Personality Didorder (and self-injurious behavior) under - Personality Disorders [Merck Manual]: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section15/chapter191/191a.htm,
16, The collection of the following papers are like
a free online textbook on Depression: (please see journals)
resources:
Online Depression Screening Test (New York University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry): http://www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/screens/depres.html,
Beck Inventory for the Screening of Depression : (scoll down on this link):
http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/Chapter15/01-15.html,
Geriatric Depression Scale: (scoll down on this link): http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/Chapter15/01-15.html,
Goldberg Depression Scale: http://psychcentral.com/depinv.htm,
Goldberg's Mania Scale: http://psychcentral.com/mancinv.htm,
17, Please also see: Resources to give out to your patients,
18 See also cross reference from our Psychosis,
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective d/o page
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And as
for General Textbooks: 2, Be Your Own Therapist- Psychology Self Help, by Thayer White MA MFT, Contents (need to scroll down): http://www.psychologyhelp.com/book.shtml, 3, For Online Texbooks please also see the corresponding chapters under the "psychiatry" textbooks (or as listed above), 4, The collection of the following papers are like a free online textbook on bipolar disorder (please see journals) , 5, Please also see: Resources to give out to your patients, |
Journals:
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Bipolar Disorders: http://www.munksgaarddirect.dk/usr/munksgaard/tidsskrifter.nsf/a0785010418aba41412565f300449b31/929779b24a983e854125668a0048a379?OpenDocument
Journal of Affective Disorders (contents): http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/6/0/7/7/
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Depression:
Depression and Anxiety: http://journals.wiley.com/1091-4269/
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Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss: http://www.tandfdc.com/JNLS/pil.htm,
or: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/frameloader.html?http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/10811443.html
Archives of Suicide Research: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/journalhome.htm?1381-1118
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| Cross reference from our Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective d/o page: |
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Schizophrenia Bulletin : http://www.medscape.com/govmt/NIMH/SchizophreniaBulletin/public/about.SB.html
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Other selected journals:
| Search Psychiatry Related Journals : http://www.mymedline.com/medline/psych.php3,
Search NeuroSciences Related Journals: http://www.mymedline.com/medline/neuro.php3, See also: Psychology journal search: http://mentalhelp.net/journals/, Psychological and Medicine Search Engines: http://www.gemstate.net/susan/links.htm , MEDLINE: {http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/doler?account=++&password=++&datafile=medline }, Other: http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/, NLM-PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed, Multiple Medical/Internet Search Engines: http://www.med.jhu.edu/peds/neonatology/internet.html#search , 100 000 web pages, net, medline: http://www.mwsearch.com/ (for some quiery major search engines give better results), Emory.Edu: http://WWW.MedWeb.Emory.Edu/MedWeb/search.htm, mdchoice: http://www.mdchoice.com/index.asp, Medscape-drug/disease search: http://promini.medscape.com/drugdb/search.asp, Medscape keyword search: http://www.medscape.com/Home/Search/Keywords/Keywords.html, refdesk : http://www.refdesk.com/health.html Other Health Search: http://www.achoo.com/ http://healthweb.org/ , http://healthweb.org/subjABC.html , http://www.medexplorer.com/ , http://medwebplus.com/search.html , |
News:
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Depression archives: - http://www.mentalhealth.org/newsroom/depressionarchives.htm,
Bipolar "portal", news etc.: http://www.pendulum.org/,
| See also: PsychNews International: http://mentalhelp.net/pni/ Psychiatric Services: http://www.newspage.com/browse/46610/46618/2928/ , ReutersHealth: http://www.reutershealth.com/ newsrounds: http://www.newsrounds.com/ (=also for specialties), MedicalTribune: http://www.medtrib.com/ |
| http://www.medbookstore.com ,http://www.medicalbooks.com |
Resources
to give out to your patients:
(links open in "new window")
Bipolar Disorders (NIMH)- includes - What is Bipolar Disorder?, Awareness,
Recognition, Treatment, Getting Help, : http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm,
Manic-Depressive/ Bipolar Disorder (APA public info): http://www.psych.org/public_info/MANIC-~1.HTM,
Intelihealth :
Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depressive Illness) : (What is it? Symptoms, What the
doctor looks for, Treatment, When to seek treatment, Prognosis) : http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8271/8604/187920.html?d=dmtContent,
and http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8271/8604.html,
as well as on depression: http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8271/8588.html,
NIH on Bipolar Disorder: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolarmenu.cfm,
Manic depressive illness (from The Royal College of Psychiatrists): http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/public/help/manicdep/man_frame.htm,
Bipolar Disorder: http://www.health-center.com/mentalhealth/bipolar/default.htm,
Depression:
http://depressionclinic.com/mentalhealth/depression/default.htm,
Supportive education (from theNational Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association):
http://www.ndmda.org/educate.htm,
like: Patient education/Self-Care: Living With Affective Disorders: http://www.ndmda.org/edpat.htm,
or: Bipolar Disorder: Rapid Cycling and Its Treatment: http://www.ndmda.org/rapid.htm,
Comorbid Bipolar Illness and Substance Use Disorders: http://www.mhsource.com/bipolar/bp0011comorb.html,
Online Depression Screening Test (New York University School of Medicine Department
of Psychiatry): http://www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/screens/depres.html,
Beck Inventory for the Screening of Depression : (scoll down on this link):
http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/Chapter15/01-15.html,
Geriatric Depression Scale: (scoll down on this link): http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/Chapter15/01-15.html,
Geriatric depression scale (Koenig) : http://www.ncemi.org/cgi-ncemi/edecision.pl?TheCommand=Load&NewFile=koenig_geriatric_depression_scale,
Goldberg Depression Scale: http://psychcentral.com/depinv.htm,
Goldberg's Mania Scale: http://psychcentral.com/mancinv.htm,
| General: Online pamphlets/psychology-psychiatry (brochures and articles): http://www.psychwww.com/resource/brochure.htm , http://psycserv.com/archives.htm, ( http://psycserv.com/vrt-bin/search-form?BUILDINDEX=y ) Resources (university counseling): http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/selfhelp.html, The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection: http://uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu/scrs/vpc/virtulets.html, American Psychological Association's Self-Help Brochures: http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/pubinfo.html, also see other internet resource links: http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/Internet/index.html, NIMH Patient Education Materials: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/practitioners/patinfo.cfm, Johns Hopkins's developed health information: http://www.intelihealth.com/ Mental health -index to a variety of articles: http://www.suite101.com/category.cfm/mental_health, |
Support groups
for patients and related web pages:
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bipolar disorder support groups: http://www.egroups.com/dir/Health/Mental_Health/Disorders/Bipolar_Disorder,
http://www.egroups.com/dir/58491,
from egroups: search > http://www.egroups.com/search?query=bipolar%20disorder
, or http://www.egroups.com/search?query=bipolar
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Grief (Bereavement) Online Support: http://www.support-group.com/cgi-bin/sg/get_links?bereavement, Borderline Personality Disorder (a list from egroups): http://www.egroups.com/dir/7702
, Depression Care Givers Support - Message board (run by a husband who provided care to his depressed wife for years): http://members.tripod.com/garyicare/msgbrd.htm, or http://members.tripod.com/garyicare/, |
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General: self-help clearinghouses: http://mentalhelp.net/selfhelp/clrnghse/clrnghse.htm
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Related web pages,
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Links:
° You may also type in for URL "the brand name medication .com" you are interested in ° - To open a new window press Crt + N
Bipolar "portal", news etc.: http://www.pendulum.org/,
Mood Disorders: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter4/sec3.html,
Diagnostic Criteria For Bipolar I Disorders: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-md02.html,
Diagnostic Criteria For Bipolar II Disorders: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-md05.html#BP2,
Bipolar II Disorder : http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-md05.html,
Cyclothymic Disorder: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-md03.html,
Drugs for Treating Mental, CNS and Neurological Disorders:
(Pharminfo): http://pharminfo.com/disease/mental.html#drugs,
And a far more extensive site : http://www.mentalhealth.com/p30.html,
Information about Specific Types of Disorders (Pharminfo): http://pharminfo.com/disease/mental.html#special,
Childhood bipolar disorder - to educate and support parents: http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/1068/,
A thought from a patient or on being human: http://www.searchingwithin.com/bipolar/graffiti/,
| Other general links (psychology): A very extensive list of links: http://inst.santafe.cc.fl.us/~mwehr/SBAlLib.htm, http://mentalhealth.about.com/health/mentalhealth/, http://www.behavior.net/ "Meta" Links: http://www2.cybernex.net/~jas/, Internet MH resources: http://freenet.msp.mn.us/ip/stockley/mental_health.html, Mental Health Topics: http://www.athealth.com/topics.html , |
CE/CME & free online CE/CME , Conferences:
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Free CE-CME in psych/mental health (Medscape): http://cmecenter.medscape.com/Home/Topics/psychiatry/directories/dir-PSY.CMECenter.html#CMS,
APA CME calendar: http://www.psych.org/pract_of_psych/cme_calendar.cfm, APA International Meetings - list: http://www.psych.org/pract_of_psych/intlmeet.cfm, APA online CME listing: http://www.psych.org/cme/, Association Meetings from mhsource.com: http://www.mhsource.com/resource/assocmeeting.html,
CMEsearch.com: http://www.cmesearch.com/,
Medical: http://www.medicalconferences.com/,
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(links open in "new window") Practice Management (APA): http://www.psych.org/pract_of_psych/managed_care.html, |
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(links open in "new window") Psychology, Mental Health: |
Reference:
See also: Psychiatry's reference
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DSM IV (Mental Health Symptoms and Treatment): http://mentalhelp.net/disorders/, ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 The Electronic International Classification
of Disease - also to download : http://www.eicd.com/,
http://www.who.int/whosis/icd10/
, http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/about/major/dvs/icd10des.htm
, medical dictionary Drug Doses of Commonly Prescribed Medications: (medical library
near you/and on the web: See also: Psychiatry's reference |
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| The Smokeless Side
- a
self help book with cartoons for smoking cessation and prevention
Why the cartoons? -
because humor is a healthy defense, and is far better than denial ! Supportive
text and tips are included.
Contents Testimonials
To own a copy
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