Psychiatry Source
Psychiatry Source is an international resource for healthcare professionals with focus on Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Depression and Anxiety.

Patient Health International
This website is for an international audience of patients and carers.

Mental Health and Psychiatry Internet Resources
This page is being developed by the Research Librarian for Mental Health at the University of Adelaide, Maureen Bell. Its purpose is to provide some links to quality mental health sites on the World Wide Web, and to save you time in locating useful material.

Neuroscience Center of Indianapolis
The Neuroscience Center of Indianapolis has been at the forefront in clinical services, research, development and delivery since its doors opened in 1984.

BrainSource.com
BrainSource includes a broad and growing collection of information and resources about normal and injured brains, clinical and forensic neuropsychology, brain injury rehabilitation, creativity, memory and other brain processes, education, brain-body health, and other topics in brain science. BrainSource is also a guide to products, books, continuing education, and Internet resources in neuroscience.

Postgraduate Medicine
Postgraduate Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published for primary care physicians. Established in 1916, its mission is to provide relevant, practical, and authoritative medical information to help busy physicians solve common clinical problems.

Wisconsin Quality of Life Index
The Wisconsin Quality of Life Inventory differs from existing instruments in that it is based on an easy to use, self administered questionnaire that assesses nine separate domains that together encompass quality of life. Each domain can be individually weighted depending on its relative importance to the patient.  Different parts of the instrument solicit information from the patient, the primary clinician and the family. The instrument and its scoring system address limitations of previous approaches to quality of life measurement.

POL.it – Psychiatry on line Italia
The information provided on “Psychiatry on line Italia” is designed to support the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The College organises scientific and clinical conferences and lectures and continuing professional development activities. The College publishes books, reports and educational material for professionals and the general public.

CRUFAD - Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression
The Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression is a group of researchers and clinicians concerned with anxiety and depression. The WHO Collaborating Centre is concerned with epidemiology and health policy, and the UNSW School of Psychiatry, of which we are part, has strong research interests in anxiety and depression.

NICE- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance in UK on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.

NGC - National Guideline Clearinghouse™
National Guideline Clearinghouse is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

SGHD - Scottish Government Health Directorates
The Scottish Government Health and Community Care is responsible for NHS Scotland and for the development and implementation of health and community care policy.

Here to Help
Here to Help are a group of seven leading provincial mental health and addictions nonprofit agencies working together as the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information. Since 2003, they are been combining their efforts to help individuals and families better manage mental health and substance use problems.

Rethink
Rethink, the leading UK mental health membership charity, works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.

NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness
NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots organization for people with mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has affiliates in every state and in more than 1,100 local communities across the USA.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Santa Cruz County
NAMI-SCC is a Family Organization working together for ourselves, our families, and our community. It is a movement of families, friends and individuals dedicated to improving the quality of life of those affected by a serious neuro-biological brain disorder and to the ultimate eradication of these diseases.

Mental Help Net
The Mental Help Net website exists to promote mental health and wellness education and advocacy.

National Perceptions Forum
The National Perceptions Forum (aka Voices Forum) is the (ex) service user and survivor network within the charity Rethink severe mental illness. The Forum exists to benefit those with schizophrenia (and similar conditions).  The  Perceptions Forum is a forum which gives an active voice to people who hear voices in the head, people who have perceptions which the normal people aren't able to observe, people with schizophrenia, psychosis, paranoia, mental illness, hebephrenia, mania, schizophrenic spectrum disorders, and other forms of madness.

Mental Health Foundation
The Mental Health Foundation is a leading UK charity that provides information, carries out research, campaigns and works to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems, whatever their age and wherever they live.

Mental Health Recovery & WRAP
WRAP has been developed by a group of people who experience mental health difficulties. These people learned that they can identify what makes them well and then use their own wellness tools to relieve difficult feelings and maintain wellness. The result has been recovery and long-term stability.

EKS® - Expert Consensus Guidelines®
The Expert Consensus Guidelines® present practical clinical recommendations based on a wide survey of expert opinion. The guidelines are user-friendly and relevant to your everyday clinical work. Each publication includes quantified results of the whole survey on which the recommendations are based, so readers can examine the experts' responses to the questions.

Stanford Patient Education Research Center
The Stanford Patient Education Research Center is part of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, located in Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. The Center has developed, tested, and evaluated self-management programs for people with chronic health problems. All of its programs are designed to help people gain self-confidence in their ability to control their symptoms and how their health problems affect their lives.

MDF The BiPolar Organisation
MDF The BiPolar Organisation is a UK based user-led charity working to enable people affected by bipolar disorder (manic depression) to take control of their lives.

APCC - Australian Primary Care Collaboratives
The APCC Program helps general practitioners (GPs) and primary health care providers work together to improve patient clinical outcomes, reduce lifestyle risk factors, help maintain good health for those with chronic and complex conditions and promote a culture of quality improvement in primary health care. Ultimately, the APCC Program aims to find better ways to provide primary health care services to patients through shared learning, peer support, training, education and support systems.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) is the professional and regulatory body for pharmacists in England, Scotland and Wales. It also regulates pharmacy technicians on a voluntary basis, which is expected to become statutory under anticipated legislation. The primary objectives of the Society are to lead, regulate, develop and represent the profession of pharmacy.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry
International Journal of Social Psychiatry provides a forum for the dissemination of findings related to social psychiatry. The journal is of interest to psychiatrists and other members of the multi-disciplinary team around the world concerned with the impact of social factors on individuals' well-being and mental health.

Department of Health
The Department of Health (DH) exists to improve the health and wellbeing of people in England. The Department of Health is committed to improving the quality and convenience of care provided by the NHS and social services. Its work includes setting national standards, shaping the direction of health and social care services and promoting healthier living.

Substance abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – SAMSHA
SAMHSA was created as a services agency to focus attention, programs, and funding on improving the lives of people with or at risk for mental and substance abuse disorders.  In collaboration with the States, national and local community-based and faith-based organizations, and public and private sector providers, SAMHSA is working to ensure that people with or at risk for a mental or addictive disorder have the opportunity for a fulfilling life that includes a job, a home, and meaningful relationships with family and friends

Socialskillstraining.org
This site highlights strategies for teaching social skills to children and adolescents. Greeting someone when you see them, saying goodbye, and responding when someone talks to you, are examples of more basic social skills. These more concrete social rules are somewhat easier to demonstrate and therefore teach.

National Disability Rights Network - NDRN
The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities. Collectively, the P&A/CAP network is the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States.

SRN - Scottish Recovery Network
The Network is comprised of a loose affiliation of organisations and individuals, from varied backgrounds, who all share an interest in efforts to promote recovery. Over the space of two years a number of events and workshops were held which investigated promoting and supporting recovery from long-term mental health problems in Scotland. As a result of this, a group of agencies collaborated and designed a detailed proposal to formally establish the Scottish Recovery Network as a vehicle for learning and sharing ideas around recovery.