Web sites of note
Please bookmark this page and check back frequently for links to web sites which have been recommended by other AACP members. If you would like to share a good site or if you experience any problems linking to a site from this page, please email Ken Thompson, MD.
General Health
Minority Health
Performance Measurement Resources
Journalism on Mental Health and Psychiatry
General Interest Links:
- Advocates for Recovery through Medicine
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
- America's Health Together
- American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.
- American Association for Emergency Psychiatry
- American Association of Psychiatric Administrators
- American College of Physician Executives
- American College of Psychiatrists
- American Orthopsychiatric Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- APA Seclusion and Restraint Resource: "Learning from Each Other: Success Stories and Ideas for Reducing Restraint/Seclusion in Behavioral Health"
- APA Task Force On Patient Safety Report
- American Public Health Association--Mental Health Section Newsletters
- American Society of Adolescent Psychiatry
- Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry
- Association of Women Psychiatrists
- Assuring Cultural Competence in Health Care:
Recommendations for National Standards and
an Outcomes-Focused Research Agenda produced for the Office of Minority Health, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services. - Bibliography on Health Literacy produced by The National Library of Medicine, it has 479 citations under such topical areas as: Backgrounds, Strategies, Tactics, Ideas, Internet Resources and Readability.
- Bilingual Mental Health Website an English-Spanish mental health and well-being website
- Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
- Centre for Community Change International provides consultation, technical assistance, strategic planning, research and Internet services through grants and contracts with federal, state, provincial, and local organizations
- Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health Promoting and supporting the teaching and practice of evidence based mental healthcare
- Cross Cultural Health Care Program
Since 1992, the CCHCP has
been addressing broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. - Cross Cultural Resources of the American Psychiatric Association
- Cultural Competence Standards in Managed Mental Health Care from WICHE
- Deerfield Behavioral Health has LOCUS and CALOCUS software and reporting tools.
- Demand Treatment a nationwide initiative to increase the number of people who get alcohol and drug brief interventions and quality treatment in American communities.
- Directory of Prescription Drug Patient Assistance Programs
- Duke University Health Policy Cyberexchange
- Expert Consensus Guideline Series
- Evaluation Center at the Human Services Research Institute
- Facing Fear Together -- Mental Health and Primary Care in a time of terrorism
- Historic Asylums of America
- Health Policies for the 21st Century: Challenges and Recommendations for the US Department of Health and Human Services
- International Poverty and Health Network
- Internet Mental Health Resources a training site from Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic on mental health resources on the internet.
- Integrated Primary Care
- Join Together Online Supports community-based efforts to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse across the nation funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Boston University School of Public Health
- Journal Watch Edited and reviewed by more than 80 physicians, JWatch regularly combs 180 medical journals for important findings in psychiatry,
- Kaiser Permanente Community Relations Information about grants and other community initiatives
- Launching Healthy People 2010
- Medicalconferences.com a large and interactive free access database of medical conferences with over 7000 upcoming events in over 90 countries.
- Medicare Part D Information
- Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, December 1999
- Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program--a 25+ year effort on the part of the NIMH and now CMHS to improve and support data capacity for mental health planning and evaluation by the states.
- Moving from Coercion To Collaboration in MH Services A monograph derived from a 6-hour symposium at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) meeting in New Orleans in May 2001
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- National Association for Rural Mental Health
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors; Research Institute
- National Council on Community Behavioral Healthcare
- National Health Law Program
- National Mental Health Association (NMHA) is the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness.
- National Institute of Mental Health Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology Branch web site.
- Now
that We Are Listening: Psychiatrists Report on Letters to
Dear Abby from People with Schizophrenia, Committee on
Psychiatry and the Community, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Fall, 1999 - Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence (SAMI CCOE) The Ohio SAMI CCOE helps mental health agencies and substance abuse agencies throughout the State of Ohio develop and enhance services to persons with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders by supporting the implementation of the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Dual Disorder Integrated Treatment (DDIT) model
- Pam Pohly's Net Guide: Management Resources for
Healthcare & Managed Care Executives - President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
- PULSE The Centre for Community Change International's free weekly e-mail alert service of new and noteworthy links for mental health professionals and consumer advocates.
- Report on Mental Health Care for Patients with Chronic Medical Illness posted on the site of the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research of the University of Pennsylvania
- Recovery, Inc. a mental health self-help program. This site features a "guest" track with an instructional design geared to help people learn some of the basics of the Recovery language and a professional track, as well.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- South Carolina Department of Mental
Health Clinical Information Site . The purpose of this site is: to provide practical
clinical information for front line mental health professionals,
psychiatry residents, graduate students, mental health clients and family members. - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
- Task Force on Community Preventative Services a federally sponsored initiative looking at developing preventive health services (not just in psychiatry).
- Village Integrated Services Agency
- Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Library WPIC Library is one of the world's most comprehensive resources in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. The collection of books, journals, audiovisuals and electronic databases mirrors the diversity of the programs and services at WPIC and provides the intellectual foundation for its research, education and clinical activities.
- Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Office of Education and Regional Programming. Providing training to Mental Health professionals, consumers and family members
-
World Association of
Young Psychiatrists
and Trainees (waypt)