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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 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
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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)
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