Outliners and Mind Map Software: A Really Thorough, Annotated List

I'm a big fan of outliners and mind mappers

I use List Pro for lists that benefit from advanced sorting, such as contacts, and because it synchronizes with PDA's, as well as Action Outline, which has no note size limit, and is hailed for it's ergonomics. But it is way behind the times, so I can't recommend it. I am increasingly relying on Word for outlining because of the psychological writing that I do (articles, continuing education courses, books). Word actually has a very rich outline feature (accessed from the View menu). This list was started in Wikipedia, but was removed (2/07) because it included programs that are for sale. I haven't seen such a complete list anywhere so I'm posting it here, with modifications and updates. I don't know all these programs, but it looks like pretty much all those listed are among the higher-quality programs. YOU can help out by posting your thoughts and additional programs and resources. The last section of the list has "multiple platform" programs, meaning that some of them operate in Windows in addition to other systems. Don't forget to look there.

Did You Know?

Word has an outline function that allows a side-panel outline view (Document Map) and automatic level-sensitive formatting via the style commands (another aspect of Word that a lot of people don't know about). Click Outline from the View menu.

The PsycIN Directory of Mental Health Resources

Interested in outlines AND mental health? I have an outline of mental health resources that lives at here: www.PsychInnovations.com/dir/, and that is being imported into a more advanced set up (with searching and a better outlining function) here: www.PsychInnovations.com/psych. It's special focus is on free reading, research and news sources.

Windows Programs

• 3D Topicscape supports outlining and information mapping in 3D with flying and zooming.
• ActionOutline simple outliner considered highly ergonomic, has RTF.
• Aibase is a free-form outliner (main pane can contain trees and other object types).
• AlfaPad - simple outliner
• Bonsai by Natara is a powerful Windows desktop outliner in its own right--that syncs well with its Palm OS partner. See below.
• BrainStorm for Windows - still selling, launched November 1983
• CUEcards - free German outliner for Windows
• Dynamic List - free web outliner for IE/Windows
• Ecco Pro - full-featured day planner with built-in outliner
• Fresh Outline - visually good tree but notes are plain-text only (although you can add defined fields to notes).
• The Guide - open source, two-pane outliner with rich-text.
• Idea Cruncher - Minimalist outliner for writing and to-do list management.
• InfoSelect - freeform database, feature-rich and with a fast incremental search functionality
• Karteset
• Keynote - free outliner for Windows (no longer developed)
• kmAnywhere - Integrated outliner with built-in RTF, HTML, worksheet editors.
• ListPro - user can create columns in functional formats, sort on multiple columns, outline can be flattened, can synch with PDA, no RTF at this time.
• Literary Machine - offers a basic freeware version, as well as a more robust professional version.
• Maple - Sturdy, affordable two-pane outliner for Windows.
• MyInfo - two-pane outliner for Windows.
• MyLife Organized - Smart outliner with roots in GTD movement. Provides true sychronization with PocketPC devices.
• Maxthink - Outliner/Idea processor for focused high-level thinking. Editor's Choice PC Magazine. 20,000 plus users. Expands ideas into information, knowledge, and wisdom.
• ndxCards - Outlining software for organizing ideas, taking notes and writing.
• MyNotesKeeper - two-pane outliner with tab support for Windows.
• Neat Notes - two pane outliner, with up to ten additional tabs within each note and a unique "pockets" tool to temporarily store clippings
• Nelements KOS a 3d outliner tool.
• NormFall Outliner with strong document linking and other features. Ranges from basic to enterprise versions. But is there an English language interface available?
• NoteMap 2.0 Feature-rich, very powerful outliner marketed primarily to attorneys. Useful to anyone as a stand-alone--or as part of the other attorney's tools made by CaseSoft. A little pricey.
• NoteTab An advanced note-taker & outliner. Basic version freeware.
• NeoMem is a free outliner
• Outliner for Windows
• PocketThinker
• Scribble Papers - free German Outliner for Windows
• ToDoList - free, powerful outliner with a ton of features; many niceties for developers; color-coded priorities, rich-text notes section, many sorting options, etc.
• TreePad™ feature-rich personal information manager, organizer, database, and word processor--comes in several different versions.
• Ultra Recall - Outliner with multiple parent items links, configurable item attributes and internal brower
• WhizFolders Organizer - This outliner has many helpful features, even boolean searches, tags, internal hyperlinks, and ebook output.
• Microsoft Word - Excellent outliner. Select Outline from the View menu. While in Outline view, also select View | Document Map. Word's help documentation for outlining is very good. Use the Styles in the Formatting menu to control how each level and the text in the outline are formatted automatically.
• Zoot - a very versatile text manager. Included here because its list of items can be nested.

Macintosh-only Software

• activeRenderer outline publishing for Radio UserLand Software
• AquaMindsNotetaker
• CircusPoniesNotebook
• Curio
• Deep Notes
• Dossier
• EmacsWiki: OutlineMode - (X)Emacs outline mode
• iKnow & Manage
• MacJournal
• Mori - Outliner / notebook hybrid with full text search, smart folders, and AppleScript support. Free for download.
• MyMind - Outliner / mindmapping combination.
• OmniOutliner
• Opal the successor to the classic Acta
• TAO from Beach Systems
• TextMate - Text editor with folders, folding, and simple outlining.
• Tinderbox from Eastgate Systems - Create, organize, and analyze notes in multiple views (outlines, maps, charts, etc.). Agents automate tasks. Documents are stored as XML and can be exported to many forms (e.g., text, HTML) through templates.
• VoodooPad

POSIX (Linux, BSD, *nix)

• hnb - Hierarchical notebook (ncurses-interface)
• TuxCards Open source outliner for Linux
• Riot - ncurses-outliner, using mbox as file-format
• KJots [1] - Free and simple to use outliner for KDE on Linux. Tree structured, it refers to nodes as 'books' and notes as 'pages'. Book view shows a TOC and view mode for all entries. No word wrap.
• KnowIt Open source outliner, KDE-based
• Gjots2 - Python/GTK/GNOME nice outline editor. Data compatible with KJots.
• Zim - A desktop wiki and outliner

Software for UIQ SmartPhones

• Mandala Notebook - outliner with Word import/export

Cross-platform Software, Multiple Version Software

• Bloxware's Lessons Learned Server a multi-user server based outliner that utilizes Apache,MySQL & PHP
• Buzz a Python-based outliner
• Code Browser a folding and outlining editor for Linux and Windows
• FlyDoc CRM full-function CRM and electronic document management system written on J2SE has document/notes tree
• Inspiration - Visual Outliner for Mac and Windows - Versatile visual outliner now being marketed for business use; also available for Palm OS
• Java outline editor (free software/open source software: BSD License)
• Leo - free multiplatform outliner
• ListPro shareware software for Desktop PC with MS Windows / PocketPC / Palm
• Microsoft Word in outline mode is probably the most popular outliner (Windows/Mac/Linux under WINE or CodeWeavers)
• Natara Bonsai - Works/Syncs on Palm and Microsoft Windows. Software can be purchased bundled together or separately.
• outliner.js Open source CSS+Javascript based basic XOXO outline editor
• OPML Editor
• ShadowPlan - Outliner for Palm with Desktop for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
• Tcl/Tk outline editor
• TiddlyWiki - self-contained wiki has outliner functions (as wiki engine)
• TreeLine - free database outliner in Python
• TreePad Windows, Mac and Linux versions. Basic version free.
• TVO: The Vim Outliner - A better Vim outliner
• VimOutliner - Free software (GPL v2) outliner built for keyboarding speed. Uses the Vim text editor as its engine. Features promote/demote, expand/collapse, body text, interoutline linking, checkboxes, color schemes, and executable lines to run external programs. Downloadable from VimOutliner.org, or as Debian or Gentoo packages.
• WikidPad Open source Python based powerful outliner based on the Wiki approach
• xoxo.py Open source Python library for XOXO outlines

Related Areas

Also see the Issues and Populations area. It holds issues such as weight management and populations such as teens. Of course the resources in that area may address specific disorders like this section does, but Issues and Populations resources specialize more in an issue or population than a specific diagnosis or disorder.

Also see Methods and Modalities of Psychotherapy. Although some resources there may address a method that is intended primarily for a specific disorder, all resources in Methods and Modalities of Psychotherapy primarily address one or more specific therapeutic approaches.

Disorders in General

These resources cover a broad range of disorders. Here you will find article collections, search tools, and news.

Pick at least one news resource to look at regularly.

Specific Disorders

Resources pertaining to specific mental disorders reside here. The outline shows the available disorder topics. Some have subtopics, that is, more specialized resources.

Aging

These resources are for geriatric issues and the aging population of seniors of interest to mental health professionals.

National Institute on Aging

Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development

Attachment

These resources pertain to issues of attachment such as attachment disorders, resources for doing attachment work in psychotherapy, and other related topics for mental health clinicians and professionals.

Articles

Representative Research (NY Attachment Consortium)

Molding Clay: The Process of Constructing the Self and Its Relation to Psychotherapy

Patricia M. Crittenden "This paper considers what attachment theory, with its emphasis on developmental processes and the protective function of attachment figures, together with current information from the cognitive neurosciences, can contribute to an understanding of psychological disorders of the self."

Overview: Dynamic-Maturational approach to attachment theory

Helpful charts shed light on the approach.

Major Sites

Attachment Theory and Research at Stonybrook Institutes

Family Relations Institute

"A collaboration of researchers and clinicians (click here for details) interested in the development of attachment theory and its applications to service delivery, including psychotherapy, early intervention, social work, and health services."

Children

Also see the School Mental Health and Family topics under Field of Interest.

Major Resources

Child Psychology (PsychNews.net)

Childrens Group Therapy Association

Newsletter.

"The Children's Group Therapy Association was established by a group of professionals who are actively involved in the field of Children's Group Therapy. The association functions as a support system for group therapists and as an advocate for quality group services for children, adolescents, and parents. The Association provides training opportunities and informational services to practitioners. Membership in CGTA is open to professionals invested in children's and adolescent group therapy who have an interest in facilitating the expansion of training opportunities in the field" (11/04)

Specific Article & Presentation Abstracts

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (NYAS)

Child Psychology (NYAS)

Topical

Bullying, Violence

Bullies2Buddies, Joseph Kalman

Innovative anti-bullying program teaches "a powerfully effective method devised for teaching kids how to stop being teased and bullied...teach parents and teachers a dramatic method to reduce aggression..."

Available at website: Free manual for adults and for children, training for clinicians and personnel, materials for sale.

Child Custody

High-Conflict Cases (ABA)

2001 report includes child custody evaluation issues and the recommended role of mental health providers.

Trauma

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Learning Materials Very large site, great number of excellent resources. A good number of audio presentations.

Sexual Offenders: See Sexual Offenders one level up

Violence, School Violence

ACA Articles, Resources

Legal Support, General

Justice For Children

Organization that advocates for childrens legal needs. 8/06

Cross-Cultural, Multi-Cultural Issues

This section is for cross-cultural or multi-cultural issues of interest to professionals in mental health.

Discussion Lists

Diversegrad-L (Discussion list)

"Diversegrad-L is an internet mailing list providing a forum to discuss multicultural/cross-cultural and diversity issues in the counseling profession and society at large. It offers subscribers throughout the United States and Canada the opportunity to interact with students, counselors, counselor educators, and psychologists, etc. about diverse concerns. In order to subscribe to Diversegrad-L@listserv.american.edu, send the message:

SUBSCRIBE DIVERSEGRAD-L

To: Listserv@listserv.AMERICAN.EDU"

Cyberpsychology, Cyberspace, Online Clinical Work

This section holds resources pertaining to issues of cyberpsychology such as compulsive web surfing or Internet use, experiences of online communities, and performing psychotherapy online.

Journal of Online Behavior

"Dedicated to the empirical study of human behavior online." (11/04)

TrueCenterPoint.com

Continuing education courses can be read, heard, or viewed free. Psychology of cyberspace, special populations, online clinical work. (1/10)

Death and Dying

This area contains death and dying resources for mental health professionals.

Music Thanatology

Chalice of Repose

Site promotes the use of live music during the transition to death. Scroll down for articles button linking to several articles. (11/04)

Domestic Violence

This area is for domestic violence or intimate partner violence for mental health professionals.

Resource Link Pages

Violence Research and Resources (Growing.com)

Very large list in categories. (12/08)

Professional Sites

Family Violence Treatment Education Association

"We are independent educators, researchers and mental health professionals from varied backgrounds, all of us specialists in the field of family violence. We are joined in a common purpose, concerned about partner, parent and sibling abuse and their consequences." (3/09)

Internation Family Aggression Society

Internation Family Aggression Society, founded by Nicola Graham-Kevan of the University of Central Lancashire, U.K. ngraham-kevan@uclan.ac.uk

Aims of IFAS:

To be a multidisciplinary society open to all who work (either paid or on a voluntary basis) in any area of family violence.

To be international

To facilitate knowledge transfer within the family violence fields, both within and between disciplines

To act as a clearing house for information on family violence for governments and the media

To facilitate inter and intra disciplinary collaboration in order to enhance family violence research and practice

Contact: John Hamel, LCSW, San Rafael, CA
(415) 472-3275
www.johnhamel.net
www.favtea.com

Nicola Graham-Kevan, PhD, University of Central Lancashire, UK

National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center

The purpose of the National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center www.NFVLRC.org is to provide state and national legislators with unbiased and scientifically sound information and model legislation regarding family violence issues.

Information and model programs are also presented for members of the Judicial, Corrections, Attorney General, City and County Prosecutor, and Law Enforcement community as well as State and Federal agencies such as Health and Human Services, Corrections and Child Protective Services.

National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center is comprised of clinicians, victim advocates and among the most renowned family violence scholars in the field. Its purpose is to provide policy makers, law enforcement, advocates and intervention providers the research and contact information they need to create fair, research-based and effective family violence legislation and model programs.

(3/2009)

Case Management and Coordination

Multidisciplinary Responses to DV (ABA)

Information for the Public

Domestic Violence Safety Plan (ABA)

A brochure that provides safety tips for victims of domestic violence.

Five Ways to Eliminate DV, List of Coalitions (ABA)

Public Education Brochures

Discussion Lists

Domestic Violence Treatment (dv-treatment)

This group has been fairly active, and does not adhere to the ideological gender paradigm. As of this writing, it has not had a strong clinical focus in the sense of discussing psychotherapy. However, there are very informative posts and there are experts among the membership.

"Domestic Violence Treatment (dv-treatment) is a group of mental health professionals and paraprofessionals from around the world who treat male and/or female perpetrators of domestic violence.

We have no particular clinical orientation, nor do we support one form of intervention (group, individual, couples and family therapy). We discuss clinical theory and techniques, legal and ethical issues, diagnosis and current research in the field. We also discuss the related fields of child maltreatment, trauma and substance abuse, as these issues often overlap with domestic violence.

This is not forum for people having problems with violence, anger and emotion regulation. For support and assistance you may consider joining "angertoolbox" or "MensIssuesOnline." Just use the search function to find and join these groups.

Right now this group is open to anyone who wants to join. Because the discussion of domestic violence can evoke strong emotions in people, all we ask is that you discuss these issues respectfully with other members. Yahoo! Groups guidelines will apply.

We hope you enjoy Domestic Violence Treatment."

Daniel Sonkin, Ph.D.
Moderator

(7/2010)

Domestic Violence Discussion List (APA)

This email discussion list is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) and is open to licenced clinicians and their registered interns who treat victims and perpetrators of domestic violence - researchers and others are also welcome.

How to join: Send a current copy of your clinical license to the List Moderator: Julie Stowasser, P.O. Box 15101, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406.

Be sure to legibly indicate the email address with which you wish to subscribe.

Interns who wish to join the list can send a copy of their registration along with a letter from their licensed supervisor.

Other interested parties may be considered on a limited basis. Please send a letter of interest to the mailing address above.

If you are successfully subscribed, the listserv will generate two emails welcoming you to the list - one is from the APA and the other is from the List Moderator, please read both.

Thank you for treating domestic violence.

Please do contact me if you have any questions.

Julie Stowasser, M.S., LMFT
DV-Treatment List Moderator
Certified Batterer Intervention Provider

EMDR-HAP Facilitator/EMDRIA Consultant
San Luis Obispo and Atascadero, California
805-544-2273, 805-466-4681
Website: www.juliestowasser.com

(10/08)

Families

This area is for issues pertaining to families such as legal issues of interest to mental health professionals.

Work and Family

Work & Family Connection

Family Law

ABA Family Law Section: Public Resources

Includes reference materials for consumers that may be of interest to mental health professionals.

Homelessness

This section contains resources pertaining to mental health issues of homeless persons, for mental health professionals.

Collection (PsychiatriOnline.org

Homeless Persons (Psychiatric Services)

Psychiatric journal articles pertaining to homelessness.

Illness

This area is for resources concerning illness, provided for mental health professionals.
Caring Bridge

Free, personalized websites that support and connect loved ones during critical illness, treatment and recovery. (0908)

Lists of Issue and Population Resources

These are directories or lists that include a range of issues or populations of interest to mental health professionals.

Patient Groups/Issues (Psychiatric Services)

World Advocacy

Lists primary support organizations and online resources for a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from mental health, to consumerism, to civil rights, to environmental.

Men's Issues

This area really needs to be developed. Please submit resources in comments. This is for resources for mental health professionals pertaining to men's issues including psychological and civil rights issues.

The Men's Bibliography

Self Injury

This is for resources on self injury for mental health clinicians and professionals.

S.A.F.E. Alternatives

(12/08)

Sexual Offenders

This area is for resources pertaining to sexual offenders intended for mental health clinicians and professionals.

Major Resources

National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth (US)

Site offers a number of free professional publications, link list, assessment instruments, more.

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)

It is an international organization with extensive information in the field of juvenile or adult sexual offense issues. Members include researchers, clinicians, attorneys, victim's advocates, etc.

Publishes "Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment," and has a listserv. (1/09)

Links Directories

National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth

Publications Collections (Fee)

Sexual Offenses (NYAS)

Sleep

This area is for resources pertaining to sleep and sleep disorders such as sleep apnea that are of interest to professionals in the mental health field.

Sleep Education Blo, American Academy of Sleep Medicine

(9/09)

Stress and Mental Health

This area is for resources focusing on stress that are of interest to mental health professionals.

News

Stress Reduction Headlines (Intellihealth)

Suicide

This area is for suicide-related resources for mental health professionals such as psychotherapists.

Organizations, Major Sites

Centre for Suicide Prevention

The Centre publishes the SIEC Alert

Print Resources (for purchase on line)

Downloads

Suicide Prevention (NYAS)

Newsletters

S.I.E.C. Alert

Articles, Reading

Suicide Research Program (US NIMH)

Depression and Suicide (NYAS)

Online Book on Suicide (Fred Cutter, Ph.D.)

It is dated. Most recent data is 1988. Has information and perspectives of use to clinicians, and an interesting section on the history of suicide. (08/04)

Links

Helpful Organizations - Web Site Links (SEIC)

Veterans

This area is for resources for mental health professionals concerning veterans mental health and treatment for conditions such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

VA Rehabilitation

Collection (PsychiatryOnline.org)

Weight Management

This area is for resources for mental health professionals regarding weight management.

News

Weight Management Headlines (Intellihealth)

Women's Issues

This area is for resources pertaining to women's issues and mental health for mental health professionals.

The Center for Women, Violence and Trauma, Publications (SAMHSA)

Access to Treatment, Involuntary Treatment (Mental Health)

This section is for mental health professionals seeking resources pertaining to treatment access and involuntary treatment (including advocacy for changes in laws concerning involuntary treatment). This is a contentious area, especially for those advocating looser standards for involuntary treatment. They have very good, rational arguments, and they have many examples of tragedies that support their point. Please explore with an open mind. There may be a best answer, but there's no one right answer.

Treatment Advocacy Center (PsychLaws.org)

A national nonprofit organization working to eliminate barriers to timely treatment of severe mental illness.

Briefing papers, resources. Focus is on legal aspects of compelled treatment and related issues with advocacy for certain types of compelled treatment and against criminalization of mental illness. Includes materials for the public and media.

Some of the more interesting resources, as of this review:

Briefing Papers

For clinicians, most information appears to be basic, however, statistics and other information on the extent and nature of outcomes of system deterioration and legal obstacles are very informative and could be useful for presentations. Much material of use for public understanding of mental illness.

News

Newsletter: Catalyst

Scroll down for archives. Can subscribe to hardcopy for free, it appears, but read it online and save a tree.

"Current federal and state policies hinder treatment for psychiatrically ill individuals who are most at risk for homelessness, arrest, or suicide. As a result, 40 percent of the 4.5 million individuals with schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder), an estimated 1.8 million people, are not being treated for their illness at any given time.

"The Treatment Advocacy Center is working on the national, state, and local levels to educate civic, legal, criminal justice, and legislative communities on the benefits of assisted treatment in an effort to decrease homelessness, jailings, suicide, violence and other devastating consequences caused by lack of treatment.

"Founded in 1997, the Treatment Advocacy Center serves as a catalyst to achieve proper balance in judicial and legislative decisions that affect the lives of persons with serious brain disorders."

Example comment: "Approximately 40 percent of all individuals with severe mental illnesses (i.e., schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness) are not receiving treatment at any given time. A major reason why so many severely psychiatrically ill individuals are not being treated is that, because of the effects of the illness on their brain, they lack awareness of their illness."

Involuntary Committment articles (Bazelon)

Article: Studies of Outpatient Commitment are Misused (Bazelon)

Historic Case Digests (PsychLaws.org)

Here is the basis for many of the judgements we make concerning competency and commitment of persons with mental illnesses. The case that established the requirement for immanent danger to self or others as the test for involuntary commitment is at the top of the list.

Online Communication and Treatment

This is not simply about the technology. The focus is on law, ethics, and public policy.

Guidelines for Online Communication (Medem)

Legislation and Politics Affecting Counselors and Therapists

Discussion Forums

ACA-GR (US, ACA membership required)

Advocacy and Position Papers

American Counseling Association, Public Policy & Legislation Page

Various resources such as links to send messages to elected representatives, and overviews on political issues and proposed legislation related to mental health. ACA members can sign up for an email alert regarding issues such as upcoming votes.

American Psychiatric Association

Advocacy Page

Much material, categorized.

Melvin Sabshin Library & Archives

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (US)

This is for following or researching legislation and votes on Capitaol Hill. Also provides links to other information about government and the legislative process.

Organizational Support/Infrastructure

Capitol Advantage

Internet resources for organizations with membership bases that want to influence lawmakers. Fee-based. Used by ACA.

Protection of Research Subjects

Alliance for Human Research Protection

Adderesses a variety of topics pertaining to mental health assessment and treatment, focusing on research and phamaceuticals. Maintains news, articles, position statements and other features. "AHRP is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors." (4/06)

Assistance for Mental Health Clients

This area holds resources for assistance to mental health clients, and others in need of assistance pertaining to their stress, disability, or financial problems.

Mental health professionals and social agency personnel must assist resource-poor clients in understanding and using community and financial resources. Clients with poor reading or computer literacy may not be able to use the resources directly, so they may need assistance in gaining access and wading through the requirements of agencies.

While we're on this topic, here's some food for thought. Is the definition of psychotherapy "a person who sits in a chair and talks to people?" How about mental health hospitalization: "An environment that is insulated from the reality of peoples lives outside of the dates of authorized treatment." Complacent, insular, and irrelevant are words I don't want in my epitaph. Although they could be better than some of the words that might end up there. Be relevant; think outside the room; what do your clients really need to secure their health and well being, and their children's futures?

Although there's plenty to read in this category, and I do indicate where a lot of that reading is, and whether it's consomer or clinician oriented, I also scooped up resources that you'll have to explore if the need arises, or turn over to the client, caretaker, social worker, attorney or whomever.

A Must Resource: United Way provides comprehensive directories on social resources in many areas.

Chronic Illness Coping/Invisible Conditions

I'm leaving an empty slot here because it's such an important area. I haven't built it up yet. Please offer yoru resources in comments.

Clinical Trials

Clinical Connection

"Bringing clinical trials to you." (1/2010)

Clinical Trials (Society for Neuroscience)

Community Support (Variety)

Supports in the Community (Bazelon)

Safety Net Monitoring (US, AHRQ)

Disability Rights

Day in Washington

Podcasts and information on civil rights and other disabilities issues.

ReedMartin.com

Legal issues regarding disability. (3/2009)

WrightsLaw.com

"Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities." (3/2009)

Government Benefits

Major Sites and Organizations

Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities

"a coalition of approximately 100 national disability organizations working together to advocate for national public policy that ensures the self determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society."

LII's Social Security Library

Medicare Rights Center

National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives

Well-organized resource and information. Includes FAQs, comprehensive case summaries by topic, and resource links.

Topics covered include Social Security benefits, including Social Security Disability and SSD appeals, claims process, ALJ hearings and so forth.

"Persons having trouble with their application can get a better understanding of how to appeal and their odds of success by reviewing (or getting help from a social security attorney or even a clear-headed friend) the appeals rulings in particular." (8/2010)

Social Security Disability Coalition community

Many links, articles. Well-organized categories, many kinds of resources.

"to assist in the collection of information related to the protocols used by the Social Security Administrations Disability Insurance program. The purpose for collecting this information is to search for systematic patterns in those protocols, and or arbitrary actions, that cause one of our frailest populations, the newly disabled, undue stress and economic hardship. Our primary concern is with what transpires from the first point of contact, the filing for benefits, and the final outcome, and or status, as of this point in time. We are looking for patterns of both abuse and success where available, and examples of the types of hardships experienced during the entire process.

This is a grassroots effort that is being supported by a group of professionals in the social services field who have experienced through their clients, the frustrations of the SSDI application process. Our intent is to reach critical mass through the construction of this coalition to affect policy and protocol change. Success will be dictated by your belief in your right to human dignity, and your faith in us to help deliver a format and foundation for change."

SSD and Disability Related Articles

Many articles! The titles of these articles are self-explanitory, so it's easy to choose. They range from the politics and related issues, to self-care, to coping with having an invisible disability, and how to relate to the system.

Social Security Disability Coalition community

Many links, articles. Well-organized categories, many kinds of resources. Discussion forum.

"to assist in the collection of information related to the protocols used by the Social Security Administrations Disability Insurance program. The purpose for collecting this information is to search for systematic patterns in those protocols, and or arbitrary actions, that cause one of our frailest populations, the newly disabled, undue stress and economic hardship. Our primary concern is with what transpires from the first point of contact, the filing for benefits, and the final outcome, and or status, as of this point in time. We are looking for patterns of both abuse and success where available, and examples of the types of hardships experienced during the entire process.

This is a grassroots effort that is being supported by a group of professionals in the social services field who have experienced through their clients, the frustrations of the SSDI application process. Our intent is to reach critical mass through the construction of this coalition to affect policy and protocol change. Success will be dictated by your belief in your right to human dignity, and your faith in us to help deliver a format and foundation for change."

Government Sites

Disability Planner" (SSA, US)

Social security benefits information.

Legal Info

Social Security Rulings and Acquesance Rulings

Organized, detailed items.

Charles R. Ryan: Social Security Disability Law and Services

Links and information as well as his legal practice.

Insurance/Managed Care Issues

Legal issues, ADA/disability, COBRA/continuation of coverage, etc.

Major Sites and Organizations

ADA and Insurance, mental health related (Bazelon)

Consumer Resources (National Health Law Program)

Many, many resources and instruction guides.

Managed Care, mental health realted (Bazelon)

Everybody in Nobody Out

Universal healthcare advocacy.

"This website supports state organizations working at the grassroots for universal health care (UHC). We do not include organizations working on incremental health reforms, that work is vital but differs fundamentally from UHC work.

"OUR MISSION: Project EINO educates the public, encouraging state movement towards an equitable health care system guaranteeing universal access to care. Project EINO recommends focus on the 'Right to Health Care', as the best strategy to empower those communities most at-risk in the current system."

HealthCareCoach.com

"HealthCareCoach.com is a project of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), a non-profit legal organization. For more than 30 years, NHeLP has worked to improve access to quality health care, educate consumers about their legal rights and provide information and policy advocacy."

The Health Consumer Alliance

Broad coverage including mental health issues.

"HCA is a partnership of consumer assistance programs operated by community-based legal services organizations. Our common mission is to help low-income people obtain essential health care."

Articles

Collection (HealthCareCoach.com)

Has a good number of detailed, positive, useful articles for the public. "HealthCareCoach.com is a project of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), a non-profit legal organization. For more than 30 years, NHeLP has worked to improve access to quality health care, educate consumers about their legal rights and provide information and policy advocacy."

Legal Service Costs/Pro Bono Services

Resource Links

Links (HealthLaw.org)

Very large list of links pertaining to health care access and consumer issues. The categories are very broad. Mostly not directly mental health oriented.

Links to Pro Bono Related Sites (ABA)

General

American Bar Association Pro Bono Legal Service Site

"We are the Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service ("Pro Bono Committee") and its project, the Center for Pro Bono. We're your source for information on pro bono."

Guide to Free Legal Services Find Free Legal Help

National Health Law Program

"Working for Justice in Health Care for Low Income People"

"The National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHeLP serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people."

Locating Resources

United Way

In some regions, it is the best directory of social services, providing phone contact and online search.

"We are a global network of nonprofit organizations operating in 45 countries. Your United Way is run by people from your community; the important decisions are made at home by people who understand circumstances where they live and work." (8/09)

Medication Cost Assistance

This covers programs that help patients with medication costs or provide free medication.

Program and Info Source Lists

Companies with Indigent Programs (EdHayes.com)

">http://kspope.com/medications/index.php"> Links (K. Pope)

Patient Assistance Programs List (NoFreeLunch.org)

Patient Assistance Programs Article(MentalHealthRecovery.com)

Prescription Drug Patient Assistance Programs (NAMI)

Specific Programs and Information Sites

Free Medicine Foundation.com

FreeMedicineProgram.com

To help patients obtain prescription drugs and medications free of charge. Established by volunteers, Free Medicine Program has helped countless families across the nation substantially reduce or completely eliminate their prescription drug bills.

HelpingPatients.org (PhRMA)

An interactive Web site created by PhRMA with member companies that lets patients search for prescription drug assistance programs.

MediCare

Merk

Find out about Merck's Patient Assistance program and Merck's drug discount and assistance program for Medicare enrollees.

Shire Compassionate Care

1-800-203-0657

NeedyMeds.com

To provide information about patient assistance programs which provide no cost prescription medications to eligible participants. A 501(3)(c) non-profit organization.

Patient Assistance Programs (Phrma.org)

RxAssist.org

RxHope

TheMedicineProgram.com">

This organization was established by volunteers dedicated to alleviating the plight of an ever increasing number of patients who cannot afford their prescription medication. Our function, in cooperation with the physician, is to assist patients who may qualify to enroll in one or more of the many patient assistance programs now available. These programs provide prescription medicine free-of-charge to individuals in need, regardless of age, if they meet the sponsor's criteria.

Articles and Information Pages

PNHP.org

QDrug.com

Poverty Law

National Center on Poverty Law

$200 per year to access their articles, such as one indicating many battered women suffer from mental illness that I wanted to read for the demographics. I'm a little tight this week. Maybe another time. Are you going to finish that cigarette? Are we out of Fish Sticks?

Business, Funding, and Career

As the outline shows, this area has a good range of resources pertaining to the business side of the mental health field. These resources of chosen for their relevance to mental health professionals and students regarding private practice, agency services, and in administration.

Education for the Mental Health Profession

This area is for resources pertaining to gaining education in an area of the mental health field, such as social work, professional counseling, marriage family and child counseling, psychology, or psychiatry.

This page is just getting started, with degree-related resources. Please add any resources you feel are appropriate in the comments.

Key words for your search can include social worker or LCSW (licensed clinical social worker), counselor or LPC (licensed professional counselor) or LMFT (licensed marriage family therapist), psychologist, (Ph.D., Psy.D. level), or psychiatrist (MD training with board certification in psychiatry), depending upon your objectives. The acronyms above are typical licenses in the U.S.

Degree Track

Counsgrads

"COUNSGRADS has been developed to help graduate students from across the country communicate with one another. Students can talk about classes, internships, papers, and ideas about the profession. Darcy Haag Granello, a counselor educator at The Ohio State University, is the list owner. Questions regarding the listserv can be sent to her at granello.1@osu.edu. To sign up for the listserv, send an e-mail to listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu with the following in the body of the message:

To sign up for the listserv, send an e-mail to listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu with the following in the body of the message:

subscribe COUNSGRADS (first name) (last name)"

Effectiveness of Psychotherapy: Research, Theory

This area holds resources for mental health clinicians and other professionals regarding psychotherapy effectiveness.

Broad Sites

TalkingCure.com

Articles on the results of forty years of research into psychotherapy outcomes in terms of their implications for clinical practice.

Topical Resources

Economic & Financial Impact

The Economic Impact of Psychotherapy: A Review (American Journal of Psychiatry) (No link)

This is getting dated, but it's important as part of a lit search on the subject.

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Susan G. Lazar, M.D., John Hornberger, M.D., M.S., and David Spiegel, M.D.

The American Journal of Psychiatry 1997 (February); 154:147-155

"Conclusions: Psychotherapy appears to have a beneficial impact on a variety of costs when used in the treatment of the most severe psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. Much of that impact accrues from reductions in inpatient treatment and decreases in work impairment."

Broad Articles

History & Concepts of Psychotherapy Effectiveness, detailed article by a noted professor

Michael T Hynan, Department of Psychology, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Based on: The Efficacy and Effectiveness of Psychotherapy, other materials.

10/2003

Efficacy and Cost Effectiveness of Psychotherapy: Excerpts from Book, Comments

Free full-text article

"If this book is any indication, the future of psychotherapy is very bright indeed. David Spiegel, one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of psychotherapy, has assembled an impressive list of contributors who describe the current state of psychotherapy and the likely future course of this important endeavor."

David H. Barlow, M.D., Director, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Copyright 1999 By American Psychiatric Press

Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice

This area is for resources pertaining to developing and understanding the evidence-base for mental health services, including psychotherapy.

Collections, Organizations with Reading

This category is rather mixed. The resources are diverse and many contain diverse content. I hope the annotation helps.

You'll probably find specific practice guidlines or links to them in some resources, but the practice guidelines I am aware of are in the Practice Guidelines topic.

Center for Evidence Based Mental Health

Focus on Research: Mental Health Agency for Healtcare Research and Quality (US, AHRQ)

AHRQ Mission: To improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans."

Use the search feature to locate documents. "Mental" found 300 documents in 11/04.

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.

EPC Evidence Reports, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Clnical information

Evidence Based Practice

Evidence-Based Practice Implementation

Resource Kits (US SAMHSA)

Psychiatry Interactive Cases (Medscape)

Research Ctr (4Therapy.com)

Includes resources on topics such as law and ethics and treatment guidelines.

Symptom Research: Methods and Opportunities (NIH)

Interactive textbook clearly explains how to use probability in diagnosis.

The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice

The online articles up to 2005 are typically of poor quality. They were heavy on opinion and light on knowledge. The titles of more recent issues give the impression that their quality control may have gone up. However, these are not available online except by subscription.

They also have a links page with various resources that are, more or les, related to evidence-based practice and scientific review.

When I first looked in 2005, I noticed that many of the editorial board members were affiliated with Science & Pseudoscience Review in Mental Health. Prometheus also publishes The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal that claims to analyze the claims of alternative medicine objectively.

I'm just pointing this out because it seems like a lot of the people trying the hardest to criticique articles for their science basis often have poor scholarship. They give the impression they are in it for the rush of superiority more than anything else. What do you think? (8/2010)

Journals

Evidence Based Mental Health Journal

Specific Articles

Mental Health (US, AHRQ)

Discusses selected AHRQ research projects and findings aimed at improving the quality of mental health care for people suffering from these disorders.

Concise, with statistics.

Psychology, Scientific

The Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level.

Links page of scientific psychology societies and related resources.

General or Broad Resources

These resources have materials covering more than one topic within the mental health field and professional practice.

Information and Resources for Practicing Psychologists (APA)

Much of this is also useful to non-psychologist clinicians. It offers a good variety and number of articles that can help with private practice, including topics such as managed care. A number of articles prepare you to present the value of psychotherapy to employers and other funders.

Professional Point (APA)

Column by the Practice Directorate Director pertaining to professional practice and mental health in the context of culture, politics and business.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

This area is for resources for mental health professionals pertaining to HIPAA.

Major, Broad Resources

See also the major, uncategorized lists, one of associations, and one of support resources and services, also.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

HIPAA.org

HIPAA Compliance

Articles, Online Course (NCCBHC)

Examples from the Litwak article:

"The organizations covered by HIPAA are public and private health benefit plans, healthcare clearinghouses (intermediaries that translate non-standard communications into standard communications) and healthcare providers that engage in electronic transactions with health plans. Failure of a "covered entity" to comply with the HIPAA standards can result in civil or even criminal penalties."

"It is critically important that all provider organizations and health plans covered by HIPAA review state and federal law against the amended HIPAA Privacy Rule, and apply the provisions of each that are "most stringent."

Paul Litwak is an attorney and consultant to government agencies, health service systems, and information technology companies. He is licensed to practice law in New York and Virginia, and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Computer Law Association.

HIPAA Compliance (APA)

Articles, links, of use to non-psychologists.

SAMHSA (US)

HIPAA, HHS Office of Civil Rights

USDHHS: Office for Civil Rights: HIPAA. Medical Privacy - National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information.

Well-rounded information and links on all aspects of HIPAA: Privacy, portability, etc. Offers a

Resource Links page.

Orgnizations, guides, etc. (NCBHC)

HIPAA Documentation

Example Rights and Responsibilities Document (OK to reproduce and use)

By Laura S. Brown, Ph.D. ABPP

"Informed consent in mental health services is one of the most important and least understood concepts with which consumer/survivors must deal. Dr. Laura Brown has written the following document for her clients and has given Sidran permission to post it for reproduction and individual use. It is an excellent tool for survivor empowerment, providing practical application of the education and information Sidran advocates.

This document, which specifies the rights and responsibilities of both the survivor and the helping professional in a therapeutic relationship, represents a "high bar" in the ethics of psychotherapy. We encourage all participants in therapeutic interactions to maximize the safety and quality of trauma treatment by striving for this level of ethical excellence.

Please feel free to substitute your name (if used by a helping professional) or the name of your therapist (if used by a consumer/survivor), and specifics of roles, policies, rates, etc. agreed upon in a specific psychotherapy relationship.

We thank Dr. Brown for sharing this valuable tool for consumer empowerment."

HIPAA Education Materials (American Psychiatric Association)

Various documents and links.

HIPAA Resource Center (Medem.com)

HIPAA Privacy

Health Information Privacy (HHS)

The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information; and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety.

Associations, Agencies (NOT Sorted)

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)

American Association For Medical Transcription (AAMT)

American Dental Association (ADA)

American Association of Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT)

American Health Information Management Association (AHMIA)

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

American National Standards Institute (NSI)

American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM)

College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)

Healthcare Informatics Standards (DUMC)

Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission(EHNAC)

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

Michigan Health Information Management Association (MHMIA)

Medical Records Institute (MRI)

National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)

National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC)

National Uniform Claims Committee (NUCC)

Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)

Virtual Resource Center (WEDI)

Professional Services, Support Resources (NOT Sorted)

hipaa.org

Resources and links, HIPAA checklist, HIPAA enforcement guidelines.

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

The public advisory body to the secretary of health and human services.  HIPAA transaction standards, Recommendations on the National Provider Identifier (NPI)

mspalliance.com/psysb/

"The MSPAlliance is the only Professional Association and accrediting body for the Managed Services Industry."

Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange

Electronic delivery of information in healthcare. Has information on Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP), National Provider Identifier Outreach Initiative (NPIOI), Electronic Health Records (EHR).

RSA.com

Information Risk management for financial services. Helps to streamline compliance efforts. Technology solutions for healthcare providers.

Oracle Identity Management Resource Library

hipaacomply.com

HIPAA security and privacy compliance. Links to federal & state legislative info., privacy regulations, security regulations, more.

American Health Information Management Association

"A professional community that improves healthcare by advancing best practices and standards for health information management and the trusted source for education, research, and professional credentialing."

American Hospital Association

"The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA."

Education for health care leaders. Information on health care issues and trends.

Electronic Network Accredidation Comission

"Independent, not-for-profit accrediting body. It is comprised of an Executive Director and no less than nine industry and consumer representatives."

Department of Health and Human Services Data Council Office of Data Policy

Coordinates all health and human services data collection and analysis activities of the Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

This site is a key resource for laws and guidelines. Lists numerous other important sites.

hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/

Includes HIPAA fact sheets, Office for Civil Rights, privacy, resource links.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (HHS)

Resources on regulations and guidance, links to service providers.

beaconpartners.com

Healthcare management consultants.

American Medical Informatics Association

Biomedical and health informatics resource.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

"Healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare."

American Health Lawyers Association

"The nation's largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the healthcare field with more than 10,000 members."

PW Web (Netcom.com)

Diverse resource links.

Train for HIPAA

"Comprehensive HIPAA training ranging from e-learning solutions, through onsite training, to special access to national conferences and audioconferences."

Indian Health Services

The Federal Health Program for American Indians & Alaska Natives.

Government Information Value Exchange for States (GIVES)

Includes resource links, various documents. "Collaborative state government health care focus group resulting in the sharing of information through a clearinghouse highway and providing a forum for discussing and resolving issues in meeting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation."

healthprivacy.org

The health privacy project ListServ, links to health privacy laws

The health hippo (FindLaw.com)

Health Hippo is a collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care

National Uniform Claim Comittee

nist.gov

Computer security resources

Networkworld.com

Education, information, and news about network technology.

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

Holds many documents, links. "Leading the advancement and ethical use of quality health information to promote health and wellness worldwide” (8/2010)

hipaarx.net

HIPAA solutions Education, resources, and consultin on HIPAA

Atlantic Information Services

Health plan facts, trends and data. highly targeted news, data and strategic information for managers in hospitals, health plans, medical group practices, pharmaceutical companies and other health care organizations.

hipaadvisory.com

"The HIPAA hub of the internet" Tapes, CDs, compliance tools, news, more

healthcareedu.org

Your workforce, as members of a covered healthcare enterprise, must be trained in HIPAA Privacy and Security. "The most authoritative HIPAA content available."

National Uniform Billing Committee

Includes participation of all major national provider and payer organizations.

National Council for Prescription Drug Programs

Not-for-profit ANSI-Accredited Standards Development Organization

HIPAA News (NCPDP.org)

x12.org

The Accredited Standards Committee

Health Care Information and Management Systems Society

Data Interchange Standards Association

Home for the development of cross-industry electronic business interchange standards.

Software directory (HIPAA.org)

EDI Practice Management System Directory

Information for Mental Health Clients such as Handouts

This branch of the directory is for resources pertaining to assistance for mental health clients. This ranges from sources of information handouts to lists of clinical trials.

About.com Areas

Since resource sites are a moving target, and About.com is no exception, the best way to find materials through their structure and guides is to start at the Health area (linked below). There you will see the obvious categories: Mental Health and Recovery/Addiction. There are also some important mental health topics tucked into other categories, such as Autism, ADD and Alzheimers in their Diseases/Conditions category. Notice I only got through the letter "A".

You can also search, and see what categories your search results fall into. The most useful sites probably fall into a highly useful category, and the guides that manage these categories tend to put a lot of elbow grease into them, providing articles on how to use their topical areas, and selecting resources of good quality.

Although About.com is primarily for the general public, some of the guides provide an area for professionals for some topics.

Since About.com, like any good major resource, is a moving target, I will not link into the specific areas here, however, I have done that in topical areas where professional resources were available.

Medem Medical Library for Consumers

Extensive holdings, well-organized.

Mental Health Area (MayoClinic.com)

Mental Health Library (CNN.com)

Holds many articles on a wide range of mental health topics, written for the consumer, but in a frank, intelligent manner. I reviewed the article on borderline personality disorder, and was pleased to see an excellent overview, and to learn something new as well. The articles include links to related material, such as common comorbid conditions. Clinicians may even find this a good launch pad for learning about conditions they are not very familiar with.

It's a long page with a number of distinct categories. Scroll down to see them. (11/04)

Oregon Center for Applied Science (ORCAS)

ORCAS is a public health-based research organization in Eugene, Oregon that develops interactive multimedia (IMM) products to help people live healthier lives. Many of our projects are workplace programs and we work closely with EAPs, HR, Occ Health Professionals and National Associations to ensure quality programs.

Patient Education Centers (Medscape)

As of 5/04, there are only four mental health categories, but they are major subjects. They are likely to add more.

Patient Education Page (American Academy of Neurology)

Innovation in Psychotherapy

This area is for resources of interest to mental health professionals and covers innovation in psychotherapy.

General Resources

Innovative Ideas (Psychiatric Services)

PsychInnovations.com

As of this writing, the site is going through an overhaul, but there are various articles. (8/2010)

Emotional Freedom Technique

This could get ugly. There are countless techniques that are innovative in some way. I promise if I go down that road, I'll make it a separate page. But I'm including EFT here because it is so popular, and because of the questions it raises. I think the theoretical basis for energy psychology is hokum, myself. But don't be thrown by any theoretical bases that you find outdated or irrational. Let's think "outcomes." Still getting you hot under the collar? Go to the Evidence-Based Psychotherapy section.

Assessment of the Emotional Freedom Technique (2003)

Active Ingredients Project

History and Active Ingredients of the Power Therapies

Charles Figley, Ph.D.

His research in the Active Ingredients Project was innovative, and he was studying a number of innovations in psychotherapy. The page gives more detail, and a streaming audio lecture. The term "power therapy" is no longer used, however. I think the most potent ingredient that these therapies have in common is the ability to do desensitization.

"Free streaming audio: A founder of traumatology speaks on trauma treatment, EMDR psychotherapy, energy psychology, NLP and other rapid-acting psychotherapy approaches in terms of history, the Active Ingredients Project, and the future of psychotherapy." (8/2010)

Reflections on Active Ingredients in Efficient Treatments of PTSD (Gallo)

Talk by Dr. Figley

Streaming audio of a moving and informative talk by Dr. Charles Figley on EMDR and other approaches to trauma therapy.

Article Article goes into detail on the project and the psychotherapy modalities being investigated. It addresses the unique nature of the research.
"Part 1 of this essay summarized data and summarized the methods studied in the 'Active Ingredients' Project. Part 2 explores possible change-producing ingredients germane to each as well as across the methods."

Phase 2 Updates (Figley)
People Involved, Personal Comments, Etc. Figley Page with Pictures

Law and Ethics, Advocacy, and Public Policy Pertaining to Mental Health

This area provides resources for mental health professionals. It covers a broad range of topics, from focusing on private practice to society. Resources range from guidelines and laws, to advocacy and activism pertaining to the mental health of the populace and the functioning of specific institutions or agencies.

You can select topics from the outline in order to navigate or browse.

Here's a question: Has there ever been a major breakthrough in ethics in mental health practice that was not triggered by lawsuits? The only one I can think of is confidentiality. If you can offer one up, please comment (and cite if you can), and I'll revise this (and anything I write on mental health ethics).

Ponder that question, and ask yourself what new ethical horizons should be explored, without waiting for lawsuits? One is assessment for cognitive deficits in terms of their case management and therapy and consultation implications. Now that there is more public awareness, I think it's a matter of time.

Managed Care in Mental Health

This area holds resources pertaining to managed care for mental health professionals. Topics such as administration and quality assurance are covered.

Did you know that human factors engineering, the practice of systematically preventing human error?

It has been said that the mental health field could learn important lessons about it from medicine. It has also been said that medicine could learn a lot about human factors engineering from aeronotics, where errors get the most headlines. It has also been said that managed care could learn a lot from the mental health field.

If that sounds like a cirular "There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza" song, look again, because it isn't.

Topical

Management of Behavioral Healthcare Organizations

National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare

Articles, links, training services.

"The National Council is a nonprofit trade association serving the education, advocacy and networking needs of...community providers of mental health and addiction treatment services. ...Since 1970, the National Council has grown to become an important voice in the shaping of federal law, policy, and regulations that govern the behavioral healthcare world."

Service Delivery and Managed Care

Psychiatric Services Journal (APA)

See the archives and the managed care sections. On the home page, search on "managed care."

General

America's Health Insurance Plans

An industry site, replete with the biases you'd expect, but containing articles relevant to quality improvement, including mental health issues and practice issues. Because the articles are from diverse sources and include mental health topics, this is a useful site. As shown below, categories and search can help you focus your reading.

There are political topics on the Our Issues page. Could be creepy, in a corporate kind of way. There are some real political hot potatos here.

Tools and Techniques of Improved Medication Use and Patient Compliance, The scope is broader than the title. It's really a broad look at research on improving care.

This area gives immediate access to many studies (no, not theirs) on improving medical and mental health care, with a focus on quality improvement issues such as patient education. You can search, read a summary of their conclusions regarding the research overall, or view a directory by condition (an excellent choice for mental health clincians, see anxiety and depression in particular).

You'll be happy to know that much research here supports the contention that psychotherapy is a cost effective treatment component for mental illness. In managed care, where the fox is guarding the chickens, you just have to perk up with they say more is less.

Case management, quality programs, pharmacist involvement and patient education were also supported in areas such as appropriate medication use by patients, and appropriate drug management by PCP's. Various means of integrating care across specializations, such as promoting psychiatrist-PCP communication are supported. I don't want machines to think for us, but I'm glad to see a movement toward having automatic reminders in electronic patient records. Ask a human factors expert what they think of that, and odds are they'll say it will save lives and dollars.

"On this website, you will find nearly fifty scientific studies that focus on improved medication use and patient compliance, through varied intervention strategies – implementing disease management approaches, educating patients and providers, and monitoring and providing feedback about target populations."

The Medical Conditions Index has a good number of studies, and there are other pages accessable from the search area that provide other categories to focus your reading, such as patient education topics. Unfortunately, the titles only go to 2001. (as of 8/10). And I found no psychotherapy or mental health topics outside of the medical conditions index. They systematically reviewed the research and show their conclusions in plain, to-the-point English in a Brief, bullet point summary. Search the studies, includes directory topics regarding what works, what doesn't, and what needs more research. (8/2010)

Practice Guidelines

This area holds resources that provide or link to mental health practice guidelines and related resources.

Diagnosis-Focused

PTSD Treatment Guidelines (American Psychiatric Association)

Psychotherapy-Focused

In the Psychiatric section, there are guidlines that include important information for non-physicians. See the American Psychiatric Association CME (continuing education) resource as a good example. (11/04)

Clinical Practice Guidelines (AHRQ EPC Evidence Reports)

Consensus Guidelines Series

Free access, reprints can be ordered for a fee.

"Treatment Guidelines to Answer the Most Difficult Questions Facing Clinicians"

"How often have you wished that there was an expert on hand to advise you about how best to help a patient who is not responding well to treatment or is having a serious complication? Unfortunately, an expert is usually not at hand and, even if a consultation were available, how would you know that any one expert opinion represents the best judgment of our entire field? This is why we began the Expert Consensus Guidelines Series. Our practical clinical guidelines for treating the major mental disorders are based on a wide survey of the best expert opinion and are meant to be of immediate help to you in your everyday clinical work."

Supported by unrestricted educational grants that were provided by a number of different companies.

National Guideline Clearinghouse

Free practice guidelines and links to resources. "National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC™), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines." "NGC offers Syntheses of selected guidelines that cover similar topic areas, and Expert Commentary on issues of interest and importance to the clinical guideline community." "NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP])." (4/2009)

Family Intervention

Best Practices in Family Intervention for Serious Mental Illness, Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (4/2009)

Psychiatry-Focused

Some of these materials are not exclusive to psychiatry, and some can help the non-physician clinician understand medication safety issues.

American Academy of Neurology Practice Guidelines

American Psychiatric Association CME

This resource has many practice guideline courses. They are free or discounted for APA members. Non-physicians may register. The materials can be fviewed at no cost. (11/04)

American Psychiatric Association Documents

Guidelines (American Psychiatric Association)

Free and fee. Most are CME courses, but can be had for free without credit. (12/04)

Medscape Psychiatric Practice Guidelines

This is not just about medication management, and even where the focus is psychiatric, there is much to help the clinician understand and interact with psychiatry. This is categorized by conditions.

Patient Safety (American Psychiatric Association)

Includes good information for non-physicians such as suicide assessment.

Patient Care & Practice Management (American Academy of Neurology)

Medical & Mental Health

Medical Algorithms Project

The psychiatric section was entirely assessment spreadsheets. Many items. The Decisional Analysis section has means of calculating odds and various measures for clinical decision-making. (12/04)

Risk and Outcome Measurement, General Quality Improvement

For mental health professionals, resources on quality improvement, including measurement of risks and outcomes. This section needs more (and more current) material. Can you add any resources in the comments?

Risk Assessment (NYAS)

Quality Management and Outcome Measuring (Presentations)

Expert workshops, March 2002. Real Media streams.
Part 2
Part 3

Rand Health

"We are a research division within RAND, the first organization to be called a "think tank." For more than 50 years, RAND has been working to improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND Health continues that tradition, advancing understanding of health and health behaviors, and examining how the organization and financing of care affect costs, quality, and access."

Publications

Browse or search abscracts, see congressional newsletters, other documents. (11/04)

Archive

Whats New (diverse articles)

Health and mental health timely articles with emphasis on social issues, service delivery.

Quality Improvement Tools

"Over its 35-year history, RAND Health has produced many practical tools for improving quality of care. Many of these tools are available on this site for your use."

Research Reports

Large number of well-categorized reports that include a Mental Health category.

Survey Instruments

These include mental health-related surveys.

Safety of Psychiatric Medication

This area holds resources pertaining to safety of psychiatric medication and related topics that are of interest to mental health professionals. Some are more consumer oriented, while others are more technical. Some cover medication in general, but often have psychotropic medication safety news and information.

See also Law and Ethics for related topics and items. Although physicians may find some of these useful, the target audiences are more general.

Resource Sites

Worst Pills, Best Pills (Public Citizen, Health Research Group) - Subscription-based and free content

The defunct eLetter on Drugs for Severe Psychiatric Illnesses has been rolled into this offering.

"As part of our efforts to increase reliable drug information on the internet...an exciting new drug information source on the web...that includes information on drugs for mental health and many other diseases such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes." (8/2010)

FDA Consumer (FDA)

Links

Consumer Health Resources (Public Citizen)

Many have information and resources related to psychiatric medication safety, appropriateness, law and regulation.

Technology, Use of in Mental Health Services

This area holds resources for mental health professionals interested in the use of technology in delivery or development of mental health services. I haven't researched this area for the directory yet. Can you add some resources in comments?

Journal of Technology in Counseling Columbus State University

You'll find plenty of free, full-text articles from their online journal here. BAD NEWS, though: It stopped generating publications in 2008.

"This web-based electronic journal provides counselor educators, counseling practitioners and others interested in the infusion of technology in the teaching and practice of counseling a platform for publishing.

This journal represents an innovative approach to publication not seen in the counseling literature. The Journal of Technology in Counseling is a peer reviewed professional counseling journal.

The web-based journal encourages the use of modern interactive web-publishing platforms incorporating audio and video streaming active clips and also incorporates hypertext into manuscripts as well as still graphics and active links."

"The Journal of Technology in Counseling publishes articles on all aspects of practice, theory, research and professionalism related to the use of technology in counselor training and counseling practice." (8/2010)

Lists of Psychotherapy Methods, Modalities, and More

This page is for any resources that provide lists (and links, of course) of psychotherapy approaches (and much more in the case of the Wikipedia category page). These will be of interest to mental health professionals.

Psychotherapy Category (Wikipedia)

The category pages in Wikipedia show all topics in a given category that are Wikipedia pages. You could spend many an hour looking at the interesting topics linked to from the Wikipedia Psychotherapy Category. (8/2010)

Other Therapies (eHelp.com)

Not updated since 2001. Not annotated. Lots of links, though. (8/2010)

Psychotherapy Approaches: General or Broad Categories

This area contains resources of interest to mental health professionals that pertain to broadly-defined approaches to psychotherapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). For now, it can also contain general categories of modalities, such as biofeedback.

I think there is some haziness in the field of psychotherapy as to what constitutes a modality vs. an approach, so please pardon they way that might affect the listings. Better yet, please comment and help reform this section as needed.

A sibling of this section is for more specific approaches that would fall within one or more of these categories, or that is less widely known and accepted. Of course, that can change a great deal from decade to decade. Did you know that, once upon a time, the majority of psychologists polled declared their theoretical orientation to be gestalt therapy?

So if you think something should be promoted or demoted in terms of wide acceptance, please comment.

Journals, Magazines, Article Collections and Searches

Clinicians should see the Specific Journals: Clinical, Mental Health: Psychotherapy, Assessment, etc. category in this area.

You might be better off in the Search for Articles, Chapters & More area of the Reference, Search & Research Tools, where you can search for articles through various free tools.

Remember to visit the Topical area for reading and resources pertaining for specific professional areas, diagnoses and so forth. Topics range from obviously clinical areas, to related professional areas such as political psychology and social work.

Also see the Professional Organizations category, where only organizations with substantial links to journals and article collections can be listed.

Lists of Journals, Magazines

These include links to the sources of articles and abstracts.

Major Lists

Google Journals List

Free Medical Journals

Links to journals with free articles, including those that bring articles online after a waiting period.

MedBioWorld.com Psychiatry and Mental Health

Very large listing of journals. Amount of free material, if any, has not been evaluated. Has a section for psychiatry, but the listings there are not limited to psychiatry. There are some categories, such as addictions, and a long alpha list.

Psychiatrist.com links list

Includes journals and many other resources.

Psychology (NYAS)

PsychWatch

Good categories! Lots and lots of listings.

PsycLine.org

Reference and Education (Looksmart)

Science Direct

Hundreds of journals related to psychology and related topics. The main page has several subject and subtopic areas that include many topics outside of mental health as well. Unlicensed users (guests) can access abstracts and create alerts. See Psychology, Social Sciences, and other topics.(2/2010)

Toxicology and pharmaceutical science

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=BrowseListURL&_type=subject&subjColl=23&zone=brws&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=18223c77ffcb708f23e2840e1a7ae9ca

Smaller Lists

ACA Journals

As of this writing, only one has online access, the others don't even have links. (2/2008)

Large Publisher Collections

This category has lists of journals that are provided by specific publishers, so the list is limited to their holdings. They may also have the ability to search for articles or abstracts. Usually, these listings are very limited in their free full-text article offerings.

American Psychiatric Publishing

Guilford Online Journal Samples

Collection of Psychology journals. Apparently each has a free online issue, otherwise tables of contents are available.

HighWire Press (Stanford)

Mostly free articles, features. Hosts many journals. 10/04.

Kluwer Online

Many clinical mental health journals.

Access the complete contents of more than 650 Kluwer journals in subjects including science, technology, humanities and law.

Research the online editions of milestone reference works offering dramatic search capabilities and unprecedented flexibility.

Choose from over 600 eBooks to read complete digital editions including all figures, tables and high-resolution images. Control the content and assemble only the chapters that you want to purchase.

Psychiatry Online

Summaries (not abstracts)

Medscape Articles (Medscape Psychiatry)

Articles include expert-authored overviews of major published research and what they mean to practicing clinicians. These snapshots are detailed enough to provide a good summary that goes beyond an abstract. There is a variety of other articles published as topical overviews as well.

Specific Journals

This section is for journals that are especially relevant to mental health professionals and emphasizes those that have full-text articles. However, some especially good ones with abstracts are included. With so many journals available, I'm sure many, many good ones are not listed here.

Clinical Mental Health Practice

So that mental health clinicians can conveniently see listings specifically pertaining to clinical work such as psychotherapy and assessment. Of course, there are many such articles in the other journals and articles listings in the other categories in this section. Psychiatry journals, for example, contain very useful article for the non-physician mental health clinician. Clinicians should stay abrest of psychiatric publications to ensure that they are aware of issues in pharmacology such as new medications or concerns that directly affect their clients.

Counseling and Clinical Psychology Journal

Print journal with articles published online for a limited time.

"...a professional, peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly articles germane to counseling and clinical psychology."

(11/04)

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

Free sample issue, abstracts.

eCommunity: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

Free online journal. Dept. of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, West Virginia University.

Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
15 Issues available online, from March 2001 to November 2003

Only one old sample issue is free.
http://fidelio.ingentaselect.com/vl=2945228/cl=28/nw=1/rpsv/cw/guilford/07367236/contp1.htm

Journal of Worry and Affective Experience
Due to begin publication 1/05.
http://www.idrg.org/jwae/

Psychology Research Journal
Slated to begin publication 3/05.
http://www.idrg.org/prj/

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (APA)
View tables of contents from which abstracts are readily available. The abstacts are informative and introduce important concepts and terms. (5/2009)
http://www.apa.org/journals/pst/
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=pst

Psychotherapy Networker
From the publisher of Psychotherapy Networker Magazine, this site offers many features, such as articles, news, research overviews, a newsletter and forums.
http://www.psychotherapynetworker.com

Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice and Training
Ends Winter, 2000
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/div29/psychotherapy/ptprt.htm

Therapy Today
Small online magazine. (4/2009)
http://www.therapytoday.net/index.php?magId=23

Psychotherapy Bulletin
Ends 1999
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/div29/Bulletin/toc.htm

General Mental Health Journals

These include clinical mental health practice articles, but are not so exclusively focused on the subject as those in the Clinical Mental Health category. However, they are mental health journals that are important to the practicing clinician.

Human Nature
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/contents.html

Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research
Abstracts in detail.
"The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal which publishes articles on the organization, financing, delivery, and outcomes of behavioral health (including alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health) services.
JBHS&R is the official journal of the Association of Behavioral Healthcare Management (ABHM), an individual membership section of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (NCCBH). ABHM section members are administrators, planners, policymakers, and program evaluators of services for people with emotional disturbances, mental illness, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities, and those with problems of alcohol and substance abuse."
http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/jbhsr/toc/28.html

Journal of Psychological Inquiry
http://puffin.creighton.edu/psy/journal/JPIhome.html

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
Click on the current or the past tables of contents links for abstracts. Click on selected articles for some full-length articles.
http://www.apa.org/journals/pro/description.html

Psychopathology Journals

Psychopathology addresses scientists who work on descriptive psychopathology in clinical contexts, or with experimental methods in neuropsychology and experimental psychopathology, or on conceptual framing of psychopathological findings for understanding pathogenesis and for validation of diagnosis and classification. (12/05)
http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=JournalHome&ProduktNr=224276

PSYCHE
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/

Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research
http://jppr.psychiatryonline.org/

Psychiatric Journals

Many psychiatric journals contain articles of importance to the non-physician mental health clinician, that are not about psychopharmacology. However, they are specialized enough for a separate category. They are in the General unbralla category because they cover a broad area. Psychiatric and other journals that focus primarily on psychopharmacology are in the Topical umbralla category as such.

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/toc.asp?ref=0001-690X&site=1

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
http://apt.rcpsych.org/

American Journal of Psychiatry (fee, sample)
As of 9/04, abstracts only.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/
Content
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/1/36?

British Journal of Psychiatry
Full articles, abstracts, rss. (2/07)
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/

Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Has some free articles.
"aims to help clinicians and researchers keep up-to-date in a systematic way with the vast amount of information published in psychiatry. Current Opinion in Psychiatry guides you through the literature with: Review articles by the world's experts in psychiatry-written in clear, concise, and accessible language, expert commentary and opinion about the most interesting and relevant papers published in psychiatry, comprehensive references and bibliographies, providing a ready resource, search-enabled full-text web site."
http://www.medscape.com/viewpublication/828_index

Current Psychiatry
Full articles.
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/psy_home.asp

European Neuropsychopharmacology
Articles and abstracts.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_cdi=4910&_pubType=J&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=87e15f5c46a8875b178b230080fc5b12
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0924977X

German Journal of Psychiatry
Online. Last issue was in 2001. (11/04)
http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~bbandel/gjp-homepage.htm

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Full text articles, special supplement topics, continuing education CME activities, many other features.
"...regular monthly features, abstracts released before official publication of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, free continuing medical education credit for selected activities, and informative case reports on a variety of mental health topics... full-site search...monthly E-Lert newsletter to keep you up to date on all the new offerings..."
http://www.psychiatrist.com/
Search articles
http://www.psychiatrist.com/private/database/database.htm
Full Text Access
http://www.psychiatrist.com/privatepdf/index.htm

Journal of Clinial Psychiatry Briefs
http://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/briefs/
Supplenet: Supplemental Topics
Full access to special topics covered.
http://www.psychiatrist.com/supplenet/index.html

Issues of the Day
Special topics of concern to mental health professionals.
http://www.psychiatrist.com/issues/index.htm
Email notification, etc.
http://www.psychiatrist.com/netsociety/index.html

PCC CNS Capsules
Additional special features related to CME's.
http://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/capsules/index.htm

CME Online
Their CME activities. Quite a number of features here.
http://www.psychiatrist.com/cmeonline/index.htm
http://www.psychiatrist.com/private/cme/index.html

Psychiatric Bulletin (Newsletter, British Journal of Psychiatry)
Some full text articles, many on non-pharmacological practice topics with an emphasis on innovation. Search and other features. 10/04.
http://pb.rcpsych.org/

Psychiatry Online Italia, in English
Substantial holdings, diverse content, much is of non-pharmacological clinical interest. (11/04)
http://www.pol-it.org/ital/english.htm

British Journal of Psychiatry (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
Some full text articles. Search and other features.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/

Biomedical

Areas such as neurology, genetics. Psychiatry is a separate category.

Behavior and Brain Sciences
Includes psychology topics.
http://www.bbsonline.org/

Cell
Rarely has articles directly applicable by health practitioners, much less mental health clinicians.
http://www.cell.com/

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

From the site: The "Journal of Medical Internet Research" (JMIR; Medline-abbreviation: J Med Internet Res), founded in 1999, is the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Intranet-related technologies; a broad field, which is nowadays called "eHealth" [see also What is eHealth and What is eHealth (2)]. This field has also significant overlaps with what is called "consumer health informatics.".

As eHealth is a highly interdisciplinary field we are not only inviting research papers from the medical sciences, but also from the computer, behavioral, social and communication sciences, psychology, library sciences, informatics, human-computer interaction studies, and related fields.
http://www.jmir.org/index.htm

Brain: A Journal of Neurology
Online Issues: full text or abstracts
http://www.brain.oupjournals.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml

Other

Clinical Social Work Journal
Free articles on diverse clinical subjects, not limited to social work as a subject at all. Example topic: attachment theory. (5/2009)
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-3343/

Article Collections, Lists

Medicine and Behavior

A categorized list. Despite the title, the list covers mental health broadly. You'll have to look through the categories, because many are medical, but there are topics such as addiction and depression.
http://www.medicineandbehavior.com/mbtopic.html

AllBusiness.com

Search for full-text clinical journal articles. I keep coming across articles here that are normall only available for a fee. Warning: each page is very small, so you have to click through many pages to cut and paste into your reference document if you want to save the text. I don't know how many journals they access. (4/2009)

http://www.allbusiness.com

Resources - Expand your skills (ACA)
Articles and resources.
http://www.counseling.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=RESOURCES

Psychotherapy.net

Has a small collection of articles, interviews and book reviews. "Psychotherapy.net provides a fresh fare of interviews with leading therapists of our time, high quality therapy videos, book reviews, humor, resources for therapists, and other ideas we have not yet dreamed. We hope this information will be a resource to which you, the therapist, will return time and again for inspiration and renewal." (11/04)

http://www.psychotherapy.net/

New Scientist
Put in a key word and you will find articles written for the sophisticated, but not too sophisticated, reader. Timely science news. Try searching on the word "brain," for example. (042009)

Abstracts Services

Amedio

Provides email updates for abstracts of selected publicaitons. See psychiatric, neurological and substance abuse categories. (11/04)

Blogs and Informal Collections and Writings

Psychotherapy Brown Bag

"Traditionally, brown bag seminars are informal lunchtime meetings held by researchers to update their colleagues on recent research findings. Psychotherapy Brown Bag attempts to serve a similar function, posting new information around lunchtime and hoping to foster intellectual conversations about research topics in an informal setting. The brown bag lunch is optional!" (04/2009)
http://www.psychotherapybrownbag.com/

Additional Reading and Media Categories

This area lists a variety of additional sources of reading and media for mental health professionals, including: Professional organizations that offer plenty of reading, articles, or media, online libraries, special collections, book samples, abstracts, and reviews, conferences and training, audio, video, and blogs.

Professional Organizations with Substantial Reading Material

Organizations here tend to offer a good deal of reading material on various topics in mental health. The <strong>Topical</strong> area has many organizations' sites, however, because they tend to be focused in a topical area.

American Psychological Society

PsychNet (APA)
Public Publications list. Free and fee.

American Psychiatric Association
Links to reading, continuing medical education, etc.

American Psychological Association (APA)
Reading, resources, news, journals, search. Also public/consumer information.

Psychotherapy Division

Coachville.com
This resource is geared more to coaches and beginning practitioners, including unlicensed persons, but you will find thought-provoking articles here.

National Association of Addiction Professionals
This group offers malpractice insurance.

Online Libraries, Special Collections

Usually, online libraries are large aggregators that charge a fee, except for online free-ebooks listings.

Directories of Online Libraries Related to Mental Health: Psychology

Psychology Libraries (Google Directory)
Some have online services.
Psychology Reference Libraries (Google Directory)

Specific Online Libraries

Classics in the History of Psych

Free Books for Doctors
Most are dated, but not all. They are categorized, see topics such as addictions. There is much on anatomy, including neuroanatomy. The trauma section was not about psychological trauma. Some links go to article collections and CME credits. There's a fourteen year old book on controverseys in addiction treatment. (11/04)

Nat'l Electronic Library on Mental Health (Britain)

Questia: Psychotherapy

Specialized Collections

Annual Reviews
Because they are reviews, the abstracts are not necessarily useful. The full text articles are for a fee. One was $20.00. Topics include psychology, neuropsychology. "...authoritative, analytic reviews in 37 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature." (4/2009)

Encyclopedic Reference

EMedicine.com
"Medscape's continually updated clinical reference." Appears to be an online encyclopedia for clinical reference with lengthy article entry for each topic. (4/2009)

Book Samples, Abstracts, Reviews

Amazon.com
I suppose you already know about the "search inside" feature. And you know how to spell Amazon. But it deserves to be in this very spot since you can read samples of books as well as locate relevant samples with their ingenious search.

Guilford Psychology
Many books well-organized by topic, around 8% have sample for reading online free. By the way, "Professionals can earn Continuing Education credits approved by the American Psychological Association by purchasing and reading selected Guilford titles."

Book Reviews, MentalHelp.net
Some are quite detailed. Good reading. Search for titles, topics.

Conference, Training Write Ups

These resources offer summaries or transcripts from conferences pertaining to mental health and clinical practice. This is a unique resource in that it may be possible to get depth, timeliness, or a slant on topics that are not easily found elsewhere.
Unlike the Online Courses area, these resources are available for immediate access without a means for credit. They are brought together here, because they tend to have multiple topics that are subject to change. Topical presentations or resources are found in the appropriate Topical area.

Collections: Static or Updated

MedScape
Psychiatry and Mental Health Conferences, authored by experits in their fields. Primarily psychiatric topics as of 4/04.

Media (For Sale)

Mental Health and Psychiatry Congress

Audio & Video

UCTV
Various programs, some of interest to medical and mental health professionals.

University at Buffalo School of Social Work
Our school has started an audio podcast series that covers a range of topics related to social work and social welfare, and several of the topics covered, to date, address trauma in some way..." (05/2009)

Blogs

Please comment about blogs that belong here. I haven't put elbow grease into listing blogs, yet.

PsyBlog
"My name is Jeremy Dean and I am currently a doctoral student at University College London, having previously completed an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology at the same institution. Before that I obtained a Graduate Diploma in Psychology. My first degree was in Law and before studying psychology I had a career in the internet industry. (5/2009)"

BrainBlogger
This comes from a team of bloggers. (5/2009)