Major Resources and Portals

These are major professional mental health resources that cover broad or diverse subjects. These are not cookie-cutter sites. Most of them are unique, so they're all worth getting to know. There is plenty of clinical relevance to be found in these sites. Some of them cover more topics then clinical mental health, but you won't have to look too hard to find relevant material.

Scoll down for the Psychotherapy sites.

Association for Psychological Science
Has articles and links. (9/09)

Articles Research and Resources in Psychology (kspope.com)
Behave Net Vast resource.

Dr. Bob's
Variety of articles and links, including much on psychopharm.

Health Sciences Online
HSO is the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge. Search and browse any health sciences topic from over 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources. Materials are selected from accredited educational sources including universities, governments, and professional societies, by knowledgeable staff at HSO. (9/08)

MentalHelp.net

National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH, U.S.)

National Mental Health Center (SAMSA, U.S.)

Mental Health: The Cornerstone of Health "Mental Health: The Cornerstone of Health" contains mental health information related to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) research, programs, policies, and media campaigns and highlights the latest research findings and policy efforts. You can find all this information and more at Mental Health at HHS.

PsychWatch "The Online Resource for Professionals in Psychology and Psychiatry"

Psychotherapy

There is plenty of material of interest to psychotherapists in the Psychiatry sibling area as well.

The Psychotherapy Resource Center Sponsored by The Human Factors Groups. The goal of the Psychotherapy Resource Center is to provide a common area for the mental health community to meet, interact, and assist one another in their pursuits. The guiding principle of this site is to make available a large number of resources for the assistance and benefit of the professions and their patients.
Psychiatry

American Psychiatric Association

MedLine Plus (NLM, US) Has searches, various resource areas including news and a medical encyclopedia.

Medscape Free to register and create topical home page for psychiatry. Many articles, links. Search. Free CEU credits (none for non-MD therapists, yet). Emphasizes medication, but there is much more. Includes newsey content, topical areas.

National Library of Medicine (NLM, U.S.) "The world's largest medical library and creator of Medline/PubMed."

Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) Includes consumer guides, clincal practice guidelines and much more.
"The Health Services Technology/Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups."