A new sort of index to good psychiatry and psychology sites has emerged: the META-INDEX. Such an index lists (and provides hot buttons to) only the following: the very best "comprehensive" indexes (on other sites), related to the area of focus, *AND* uniquely good sites (in the area of focus). This is a Meta-Index for general psychiatry and clinical psychology. (Note: The meta-indexes do tend to stay focused, with sites only *for a particular profession*. So they do their job of being both truely good and truely thorough VERY WELL, little unique to other areas of psychology may be found there.) Enjoy.
These sites have been categorized by the predominant type of site each is. Each site has been listed ONLY ONCE by what seems to be its predominant topic (sometimes the placement was really quite arbitrary). Because of this, it is important to peruse the entire list of sites if you want to be thorough.
**NOTE**: The purpose of the site is to offer a SELECT list of uniquely rich resources for someone in a typical general psychiatry (or clinical psychology) practice. Sites may be judged as rich if they provide an extensive index to many good sites and/OR if they are uniquely rich in some specific topic area related to general psychiatry (or clinical psychology). I would like suggestions for further inclusions. DO NOT HESITATE TO WRITE WITH SITES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE ADDED (given they seem to conform to the purpose of this site) !! I am also seeking help in categorizing the sites (as much as possible). In addition, it would be helpful to get input on the ones (by number) people find most valuable. Again, your suggestions will be appreciated. PLEASE WRITE TO ME IF YOU HAVE **ANY** SUGGESTIONS. Thanks. ** CATEGORY 6 ** Library, Reference AND Journals and other Publications ** CATEGORY 7 ** Drug and Drug Abuse Info.; Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment ** CATEGORY 8 ** Medical AND Mental Disorder Resources (seem to be about an equal mix of both) ** CATEGORY 9 ** Types of Treatment ** CATEGORY 10 ** General Psychology, Sites on Research, and Misc. ** CATEGORY 11 ** Other Problems (abuse, child abuse or neglect, incest, disasters, violence, grief, HIV, etc.) AND other Societal Behavioral Problems (includes matters of law and info. on laws) ** CATEGORY 12 ** Child Development, Childhood Disorders, Behavioral Problems, and Treatments. ** CATEGORY 13 ** Parenting ** CATEGORY 14 ** Sites of Organizations ** CATEGORY 15 ** Big Indexes ** CATEGORY 16 ** Software ** CATEGORY 17 ** SEARCH TOOLS *** OTHER SITES OF INTEREST *** Now, addressing aspects of the web page (#341), hot-buttoned directly
above. Re: Computer Inventory Scoring Algorithm, on this web site
(a program to fully score personality inventories ONESELF): A quote from a satisfied user: "... The program performs well
and appears to be accurate. It is a no frills straightforward
scoring program that will allow you to calculate the raw scores
as well as the T-scores. Written in basic the program is
easy to use and to modify to other psychometric instruments.
The program will score forced choice T-F and Multiple
choice instruments. The accompanying instructions ( If followed
faithfully) are very clear and easy to follow. Through the
kindness of Mr. Jesness the program is in the public domain.
It is available through his web site. " (end quote) This program can be
used to score ANY forced choice inventory, even ones with 100 + scales. The main paper at the web site hot-buttoned above is the one which offers a critique of the counseling/psychotherapy field as it is today, etc. This paper has been read in-full and given enthusiastic positive reviews by major clinical and counseling professors, including Allen Ivey, Alvin Mahrer, and Robyn Dawes. It has been considered an important paper by Paul Barrett of the U.K. (in his view, indicating important topics of needed research). It has been considered worthy of discussion in professional circles by Carroll Izard and Paul Meehl. The third paper on this other web site of mine (the SECOND one appearing on the web page, following the critique of the counseling/psychotherapy field) outlines an Ethological Conceptualiation of Learning (in terms of the development of interrelated capacities). AGAIN: W/R to the Meta-Index Web Page: It is my hope that people will send me suggestions for additions for this web page. This shall be the only way this web page can remain reasonably up-dated as the web resources grow possibly at an exponential rate. (last updated 05.24.99)
INDEX: (You may click on any of the CATEGORIES to go directly there.)
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** CATEGORY 1 ** Gen. Mental Health/Mental Disorder (ea. w/ much on many disorders)
** CATEGORY 2 ** Medications and Psychopharmacology
** CATEGORY 3 ** Patient/Client Information (BOOKLETS)
** CATEGORY 4 ** Information on ADULT Disorders and Assessment
** CATEGORY 5 ** Medical Sites
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** CATEGORY 6 ** Library, Reference AND Journals and other Publications
** CATEGORY 7 ** Drug and Drug Abuse Info.; Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment
** CATEGORY 8 ** Medical AND Mental Disorder Resources (mix of both)
** CATEGORY 9 ** Types of Treatment
** CATEGORY 10 ** General Psychology, Sites on Research, and Misc.
** CATEGORY 11 ** Other Problems AND other Societal Behavioral Problems
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** CATEGORY 12 ** Child Dev., Childhood Disorders, Behavioral Problems, & Treatments.
** CATEGORY 13 ** Parenting
** CATEGORY 14 ** Some Sites of Organizations
** CATEGORY 15 ** BIG Indexes
** CATEGORY 16 ** Software
** CATEGORY 17 ** SEARCH TOOLS
*** OTHER SITES OF INTEREST***
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** CATEGORY 1 ** General Mental Health/Mental Disorder (i.e. sites are on MANY disorders or many mental health/mental illness topics).
2 National Institutes of Health
3 Athabasca University Psychology Resources
9 Behavior On-Line -- gathering place for mental health and applied behavioral science professionals
10 mental health links. Its target audience is mental health professionals
11 Information and Resources for Practicing Psychologists
12 Resource Center for Rural Behavioral Health
14 Pulier's Personal Psychiatry And Behavioral Healthcare Resources For Mental Health Professionals
15 Information for Mental Healthcare Providers (with search engine of a major index)
18 Psyc Broadcasting -- Continuous On-Line Education for Mental Health Professionals (includes on-line panels)
19 Psychology Resources on the Web (another major index of indexes -- index OF "comprehensive" psychology web pages)
20 Psychiatric Resources Arranged by Topic
21 Major index to MANY mental health resources (use only one of the three request boxes at a time -- scroll down to see complete lists: guides, health resources, and mental health resources)
22 Psychiatric Resources Arranged by Topic, an index to hot-buttoned indexes to many many resources on mental health disorders
24 Award-winning hot-button index to information on Mental health topics, resources, and professionals
25 This list contains over 350 links to information about various aspects of mental health. These links are organized in 25 topics. It is provided as a public service by Online Psych , a comprehensive information service for psychological professionals and consumers
28 The Behavioral and Mental Disorders.
32 A worthwhile mental health/mental illness index site. A mega-meta index by disorders and a good search engine. There are many good sites and some not so good here.
35 NYU Dept. of Psychiatry. offering information for the public and things for professionals, including a page of good links plus interactive testing for CMEs AND more (sub-sites of this site have already been indexed)
37 U.S. Dept. of Health an Human Services "National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network" (searchable)
40 "Best Other" Psychiatry Sites, a button from the site above.: Large index of hot-buttoned well-categorized sites.
** CATEGORY 2 ** Medications and Psychopharmacology
41 Clinical Psychopharmacology Seminar 1996-1997 Post traumatic Stress Disorder (with links to much else) ALSO: Buttons to previous and later articles provides pharmacology information for MANY disorders.
42 Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Therapeutics: Major resource (hot-buttoned index) to connect to pharmacological data bases and many other information sources
44 Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Therapeutics -- hot-buttoned index to many pharmacy resources
47 Clinical Trials Listing Service -- listing of and information about clinical trials and research, ETC.
48 Medical site including drug search and search engine for some other major medical sites with special portion on pharmacotherapy
54 Outlined hot-buttoned to all portions of a large document: "MOOD DISORDERS: PHARMACOLOGIC PREVENTION OF RECURRENCES, National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement"
55 This section enables you to find information about more than 7,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications, including common uses of a drug, the proper ways to use the medicine, possible side effects, and other helpful information.
57 "The Internet Drug Index" (searchable by actions, interactions, brands)
59 Pharmaceutical Companies' Information Page, including info. on drugs in development.
60 WWW Virtual Library: Pharmacy. The webmaster says: "This page includes all the Pharmacy Related (loosely defined) Internet Resources that I know about."
61 Pharmacy info. on the internet (searchable) Links.
64 Psychiatry On-line, a rich U.K. Psychiatry site with archives of professional papers (peer reveiwed; many on psychopharmacology; searchable).
** CATEGORY 3 ** Patient/Client Information (BOOKLETS)
66 Information on Specific Mental Disorders, Their Diagnosis and Treatment
69 Major Source of Patient Information (booklets, etc.)
70 Hot-buttoned index to a half dozen Sources of Information for Mental Health Patients
72 Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government.
73 Page of articles and information for patients, families, and caregivers
74 Self-Help and Psychology Magazine's Links for Consumers of mental health services -- a big index categorized BY topic to many resources
75 Booklets on Health and Mental Health from the British government
76 Royal College of Psychiatrists' "Help is at Hand" Leaflet Series
79 Index to various categories of Info. for the Public from the Amer. Psychiatric Assoc.
80 The goal of FedWorld is to provide a one-stop location for the public to locate, order and have delivered to them, U.S. Government information.
**CATEGORY 4 ** Information on ADULT Disorders and Assessment
82 TREATMENT OF PANIC DISORDER: National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement.
84 David Baldwin's Trauma Info Pages (award winning with links to many things)
86 Large hot-buttoned index to Classification and Assessment Resources
87 Hot-buttoned Index to Classification and Assessment Resources
89 FePsy ('The Iron Psyche') is a system for automated (neuro)psychological testing. It contains a set of computerized tests for cognitive (neuropsychological) functions and a relational database system for storage of the results.
91 Index to Assessment Inventories ON the WWW
92 THE MAJOR information source about schizophrenia AND its treatment AND it also has numerous excellent links to information about psychopharmacology and other disorders !!
95 Second Inter. Conf. On Bipolar Disorder: Read all the abstracts OR listen AND SEE the talks themselves through imported audios and imported slide show !!
96 Index to the above site: find some more nice slide shows (if you can figure out how to read the index -- which is not hard) -- there is a way to get CMEs out of some of this
99 Caregivers' page for dealing with Alheimer's and Dementia. An unbelievably rich page (also has great depression links AND A LOT OF FUN STUFF TOO) -- see especially the "Resources" link !!
101 A doctor's large index to information on depressive disorders. Here's what he says about his page: "This site is Internet's central clearing house for information on all types of depressive disorders and on the most effective treatments for individuals suffering from Major Depression, Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder), Cyclothymia, Dysthymia and other mood disorders."
102 A very good bipolar disorder site (a large number of excellent authoritative links to useful material from that site's several hot-buttoned indexes).
104 Huge index to resources on sleep and sleep disorders.
105 Quality of sites VARY, but SleepNet's goal is to have links to all the sleep information located on the internet.
106 Index including a link to the page of an Assoc. for understanding suicide (American Association of Suicidology) and links to several anxiety disorder pages, and one to the Amer. Psychoanalytic Found. page (itself with several links), and others.
108 Articles on how to do screening for many physical illnesses and mental disorders.
113 Huge index to a tremendously large number of clinical psychology and psychiatry links. INDEXED by disorder and by topic area on this page. Each link on this page typically leads to scores of links on the topic.
115 Papers (with many references) and info. on: Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia; and
"Rape Trauma Syndrome" and the treatment of the disorders.
118 Nat. Anxiety Foundation web page. With MUCH information about some major anxiety disorders AND a directory, by state, to anxiety health care professionals.
122 Information about transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat depression. (Be sure to click on several of the buttons provided on each page.)
126 Bibliographies and articles on Trauma and Dissociation.
127 Information to help people with Panic Disorders. Complete short book on how to treat an aspect of panic attack disorder.
** CATEGORY 5 ** Medical Sites
129 MedicineNet -- A free Medicine Reference
131 The Virtual Hospital is the Apprentice's Assistant (TM). The Virtual Hospital is a registered trademark of The University of Iowa. Information Page
132 Peer reviewed World-Wide Web sites on common medical problems AND search engine of Virtual Hospital (above)
133 Welcome to Med Help International (with searchable med library)
136 Medical Information for Healthcare Providers
138 They charge no fees to register or use the Medical Matrix database. Your information will be utilized to refine and improve the content of Medical Matrix. Thank you for your continued support of Medical Matrix. With your help, we can build Medical Matrix into a 21st Century Medline.
139 Continuing Medical Education
141 WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences: Medicine
143 MedicineNet -- a free medical reference (including medical dictionary, diseases and treatments info., pharmacology info., medical news, and articles)
144 U.S. National Library of Medicine (searchable; includes free Medline)
146 A site for doctors to identify new worthwhile medical sites on the "web" and provide an index to them -- see how they did. Be sure to click on "Sitemap" sometime -- after that you can go to their complete collection (via the "Internet Medical Resources" button !!) Be sure to also click on the "Research" button of that outline (index) page sometime.
PAGE 2: META-INDEX for Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology to Major, High Quality Hot-Buttoned Indexes with Links to all major General Resources on the 'NET (continued). Rich sites keep coming -- partly because the U.K. is fast increasingly coming on-board. For the continuation of the list of recommended sites (entries 149 - 262), see below.
152 Amer. Psycho. Assoc. Major Searchable Behav. Sci. Abstracts (PsychInfo?) -- requires member number
153 APA Science Journals (typically abstracts -- may well be searchable though)
156 Library and Reference Resources -- here you may search many medical libraries
157 Take off point to read many on-line professional medical and psychiatric journals
158 PsychArticle Search -- search abstracts of 1000+ journals
160 Online journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
163 Newspapers and some more journals On-Line, and an index to all newspapers on line and all N.Y. Times Book reviews since 1980.
164 Psychiatric Libraries
165 Electronic Mental Health Journals and Newspapers
167 Home of Psychiatric Times (#1 Psychiatric Publ.) with Mental Health Infosource Search Engine
168 Index to gain access to Psychiatric Libraries on the web
169 Electronic Mental Health Journals and Newspapers and Newsletters
173 Having trouble finding the information you need on the net? Want to expand your library? Looking for a particular textbook? The brand new Multimedia Medical Bookstore is now on-line. Also has index to resources on the web.
174 New England Journal of Medicine Home Page
176 Library of Congress Home page (searchable)
179 Gateway to the on-line offerings of the journal: Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
182 Electronic Library (30 day free access)
186 FULL TEXT of Canadian Jour. of Behav. Sci. (all of the last two years) -- simply click on "frames version" or "no frames version" to get to index !!
189 Scientific American ON-LINE ! Includes select full articles ! (Site is searchable.)
199 For variety or fun: Tons of links to newspapers, magazines and computer publications on the web. It features links from all over the world.
202 Major index to references on addictions.
203 Includes access to huge ETOH searchable database on alcohol and substance abuse problems
204 The mission of NIDA is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. This site has great links.
209 Homepage of Rational Recovery, an alternative to AA. With an on-line tutorial to instruct you about the organization.
211 Amer. Council for Drug Ed. homepage.
213 Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web
214 Another index to resources on mental health, psychiatry, AND medicine
216 Continuing On-Line education for the Professional (including psychology, psychiatry, and medicine)
217 Combined Health Info. Database -- another search engine for information (associated with Nat. Inst. of Health and Center for Disease Control)
220 The Self Psychology Page is dedicated to discussion, information, and communication regarding Heinz Kohut's psychology
221 The Source on the Web for Information and Resources about Object Relations Theory and Practice
225 Index to a variety of resources on/of psychoanalysis.
226 Rich Adlerian site with interesting essays (or "readings"), interviews, guidance for parents, and including a section called "Dealing Effectively with Children's Mistaken Beliefs".
228 APA Science Links
233 schizophrenia.com's pages of Information for Researcher's and those interested in current research (with many external links as well)
234 Index to many research areas and research findings from mental health researchers in Australia
236 Links to many, many personality theory and personality assessment readings !!!
239 Compeer, an organization that matches community volunteers with children and adults receiving mental health
treatment. Newsletter on-line. Info. to set up new branches and to contact any existing branches.
242 Child Abuse Prevention Network is devoted to providing unique and powerful resources for professionals in the field of child protection. Child maltreatment, abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse and neglect are our key areas of concern. We provide a one-stop site for all workers in the area of identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention.
244 A comprehensive information service for people working in the fields of HIV prevention, care, and support.
247 Homepage of the Administration for Children and Families. Select links to several offices or programs and choose from several topics and you are brought to the info. you want.
248 Child Abuse Information and Resources Directory. Be sure also to click on the research button and "Child Abuse Facts"
250 Many resources presented by The American Bar Association Commission on domestic violence.
255 Dept. of Justice Violence Against Women Homepage.
256 Sexual Assault Information Page. Numerous hot-buttons indexed by topic. Site searchable.
258 Cult Information Page. Check out the "Links" page.
261 Legal advocacy for the civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disability.
262 How the Federal Emergency Management Agency's helps after a disaster including crisis counseling and federal
assistance.
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264 A absolutely excellent index to information and resources for school psychologists and good for anyone dealing with similar types of problems.
269 Page out of Indiana including many links for information on teen problems (and some mental disorders, generally) and how to deal with many of these problems.
270 What schools can do for students with mental illness -- site sponsored by UCLA.
274 Univ. of N. C., Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children.
275 Learning Disabilities on-line. Includes MANY In-Depth Articles on LDs.
276 A site dealing with the challenges of difficult children, with a hot button to a huge index of impressive links.
278 Homepage of Nat. Inhalant Prevention Coalition.
279 Download many long articles on critical issues for children and youth.
280 Internat. Dyslexia Assoc. homepage: Bibliographies and summaries of recent research and interventions.
283 The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities. Be sure to click on the publications button.
285 An amazingly rich site on changes that occur in adolescence and during the transition into adulthood. Also on issues in adolescence and early adulthood. Links.
286 Nat. Inst. of Mental Health site on ADHD. Links to other sites with info. on specific mental disorders.
287 National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System: Good links and links to publications, or ways to order publications. Includes info. on disabilities.
289 Paper on Semantic Pragmatic Disorder with link to American Hyperlexia Association Home Page.
291 Shared Parenting Information Group a group striving to to promote responsible shared parenting after separation and divorce and to make available information, research and resources to all concerned.
293 U.S. Dept. of Ed. site with several articles on teaching a child age 3 - 10 to read.
294 Ohio State Human Development and Family Life Education Resource Center. Many articles. Parenting Education Database -- to find oppor. for education (searchable). Fact sheets and pamphlets (fact sheets are on-line). Some important links.
295 Many articles on child development, including social-emotional development. Concentrates on early childhood. Many long articles available.
296 We are pleased to bring AMA Health Insight to the Web as a public service made possible by AMA members -- physicians dedicated to the health of America.
297 APA Public Info. Page
298 Society for Neuroscience
299 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH web site
300 The Abraham A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
304 American Psychoanalytic Society, providing an index with many links of possible interest
305 Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, a non-profit organization working to minimize the harm associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
306 Another META-INDEX to indexes in psychiatry, clinical psychology, and patient resources, etc.
310 ANOTHER meta-index
312 Another mega-meta index, this one searchable
313 One major gateway to the internet page from the above site
314 Another somewhat large index to Psychiatry -- Clinical Resources (it contains one or two things I missed)
316 May be "the mother" of all mega mega indexes, yet clearly indexed by topic and sub-topic with clearly labeled indexes within indexes each with hot-buttons to clearly labeled resources.
317 A huge list. It is fair to say that entries vary in quality, but a number of the good ones are there and some I missed. It is nice in that it has a list of of the special psychiatry research centers/institutes/labs.
318 Psychology Department Home Page, UTexas, Austin -- a nice index to quite a number of resources (including some other indexes may have missed)
319 U of Iowa Professor's psychiatry links
320 Software for Psychology & Internet/WWW
327 Big search engine
331 Hot-Buttoned index of and TO Major Mental Health Search Engines
333 Medical World Search -- big medical search engine (plain english searches)
335 Search Engine: Starting point for finding UK government documents (this site currently indexes documents held on other UK Government Servers as well as their own server).
336 Another way to a search medical database -- which seems to yield good results.
340 *** NOTE ****: A VERY large, though less discriminate list of many of my *favorite* bookmarks, containing most of those in this META-index, but also many, many more (**100s more**). If you have not yet found what you are looking for (because, for example, it is more specific), click HERE. The site may also be worth your perusal since most of the sites on this META-index are listed by the briefer site name (rather than the typically longer description I provide here, on the META-index). Sorry for the repeats, though. ALSO, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING QUITE SPECIFIC, BE SURE TO SEE THE LAST HOT-BUTTONED SITE ON THIS PAGE.
341 Be sure to read the home page of the author of this Meta-Index. It offers a critique of the counseling/psychotherapy field and solutions (along with another major paper and an algorithm for scoring your own assessment inventories !!)
I have two other papers I have written that may be of interest to readers:
342 "How YOU Can Tell if PSYCHOLOGICAL Treatments ARE GOOD (Usually)" -- a summary of some research and of a meta-analysis on this topic.
343 "General Realities and the American Vision" -- a paper on the psychology of religion and religious doubt, its adaptive utility examined and understood naturalistically in terms of neo-Freudian theory.
ANNOUNCING THE AVAILABLITY OF AN OBJECTIVE, RESEARCH-BASED TOOL TO AID IN THE SELECTION OF PEER COUNSELORS OR CANDIDATES FOR COUNSELING/CLINICAL GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMS !!:
344 If you own a PC AND are running Internet Explorer 4.72 or above, this is an on-line Peer Counsleor Effective Predictor **program**. It takes in a subject's 20 t-scores on the main scales of the California Psychological Inventory and calculates a score of how good a peer counselor that person would be. It is entirely researched-based and has been successfully piloted on a group of counselors-in-training (masters candidates). It correlated moderately with a global rating of effectiveness by these candidate's supervisor (blind to the peer counselor predictor score).
THE MAIN RESEARCH ON WHICH THE TOOL IS BASED:
345 Bibliography of the major sources (from the literature review) on which the Peer Counselor Effectiveness Predictor is based. All ratings and weightings involved in the Peer Counselor Effectiveness Predictor formula are rationally based on the research literature. Further cooperation in doing research on this measure is welcomed and encouraged. Please e-mail me.