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American Psychological Association:
Help Center
http://helping.apa.org
The American Psychological Association offers help on everyday living including
topics like controlling anger, painful shyness, stress in the workplace, children
and television violence, help for stepfamilies, and more.
Internet Mental Health
http://www.mentalhealth.com/
Internet Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health information.
National
Mental Health Association Mental Health Fact Sheets
http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/index.cfm
Free information from the National Mental Health Association on various mental
health issues and referrals to a broad range of local services and support groups.
National
Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/index.cfm
Information from NIMH about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental
illnesses. Included are brochures and information sheets, reports, press releases,
fact sheets, and other educational materials.
National Mental
Health Awareness Campaign
http://www.nostigma.org/mhlinks.html
Mental Health links.
NIH:
Mental Health
http://health.nih.gov/search.asp?category_id=16
Mental health information from the National Institutes of Health.
Mental
Health Resources on the Internet
http://www.gcc.mass.edu/folderacad/library/Path/MentalHealthPath.htm
Metasite of mental health resources from Greenfield Community College in Massachusetts.
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Electronic Databases
Health
Reference Center
Includes information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases,
Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs,
Prescription Drugs, and more.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center--Consumer
Search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences,
food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Publications covered include Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health.
MEDLINEPlus
Up-to-date, quality health care information from the world's largest medical
library. This service provides access to extensive information about specific
diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from
the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians,
drug information, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical
trials.
MasterFile
Premier
Provides full text and abstracts from general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.
ProQuest
Online Newspapers
Databases with millions of articles originally published in national, regional,
and local newspapers. Titles include: Includes Wisconsin State Journal, Madison
Capital Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune,
Minneapolis Star Tribune, New York Times (index only), Wall Street Journal,
and more.
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Audiovisual Materials
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Trouble
in mind.
This series of 13 tapes examines mental health conditions and problems and outlines
treatments. Includes discussions of panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder,
delirium, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression, postpartum, post traumatic
stress disorder, antisocial personality disorder, eating disorder, psychosomatic
disorder, bipolar personality disorder and attention deficit disorder.
362.2 TROUB 1999 VIDEO TAPES A-M
Depression
and manic depression.
Explains depression and manic depression through the experiences of several
people, including Mike Wallace, Kay Redfield, Lama Dejani, and Robert Boorstin.
Provides an overview of the medications and therapy currently in use.
616.8527 DEPRE 1996 VIDEO
A
living hell.
An investigation of clinical depression. Patients describe their feelings, while
cognitive therapy pioneer Aaron Beck and other researchers discuss the results
of their inquiries into contributory causes of depression. Case studies of patients
with adult, childhood, and postnatal depression define the spectrum of the illness.
362.25 LIVIN 2001 VIDEO, Episodes 1 & 2
The
World of abnormal psychology.
Series that covers the spectrum of psychological disorders from simple stress
to paranoid schizophrenia. Therapists, physicians, and researchers weave their
commentary on causal factors, treatments and prognoses around the patients'
own stories Includes: Looking at normal behavior, The nature of stress, The
anxiety disorder, Psychological factors and physical illness, Personality disorders,
Substance abuse disorders, Sexual disorders, Mood disorders, The schizophrenias,
Organic mental disorders, Behavior disorders of childhood, Psychotherapies,
An ounce of prevention.
616.89 WORLD
Managing
Stress.
Helps the viewer develop the skills necessary to deal with stress.
155.9042 MANAG 1991 VIDEO
Kids in Crisis.
Looks at the problem of mental illness and emotional turmoil among teenagers,
profiles five youths, their parents, and their doctors.
618.9285 KIDS 1993 VIDEO
Anorexia & bulimia.
From C. Everett Koop: Understanding the diagnosis -- What happens next? -- Treatment
and management -- Issues and answers.
616.8526 ANORE 1996 VIDEO
Mirror for the heart: facing eating disorders.
Looks at the hidden behavior, stress, denial, and the cycle of guilt and shame
that underlie eating disorders; shows how depression, low energy, desperation,
serious medical complications, and even death can result.
616.8526 SELFIM 1996 VIDEO
Dying to be thin.
Discusses the characteristics of anorexia nervosa and bulimia and identifies
those most likely to be affected by these disorders.
616.85262 DYIN 1995 VIDEO
Teenage suicide: the silent threat.
A teen with bipolar disorder describes her suicide attempt and her struggle
to deal with her illness through medication and therapy. Parents of several
teens whose depression and/or eating disorders led to suicide also relate their
experiences and mental health experts tell of promising screening projects that
may help identify at-risk youth and lead to effective prevention.
362.28 TEENA 1999 VIDEO
Suicide.
Recognizing suicide as an often preventable act, this program discusses intervention
with the acutely suicidal patient. A question and answer format is issued to
provide information essential to recognizing and giving care to the suicidal
patient.
616.858445 SUICI 1986 VIDEO
Before you say goodbye: an intimate discussion with those touched by suicide.
An eye-opening wake-up call documenting the startling reality of suicide.
362.28 BEFOR 1999 VIDEO
Periodicals
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Psychology
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Addiction
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The
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons complete home guide to
mental health.
Frederic I. Kass
REFERENCE 616.89 C72
The insider's guide to mental health resources online.
John M Grohol
025.0661689 G874
Essential guide to depression.
American Medical Association
616.8527 ES78
How therapists diagnose: seeing through the psychiatric eye.
Bruce Hamstra
616.89075 H232
Psychological symptoms.
Discusses characteristics, causes and coping strategies for common behavioral
difficulties including anxiety, phobias, shyness, depression, anger, compulsive
overeating, perfectionism and drug abuse.
Frank J. Bruno
616.89 B89
More than moody: recognizing and treating adolescent depression.
Harold S. Koplewicz
616.85270083 K83
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