Web Sites Worth Watching
Psychiatric Services offers a monthly listing of mental-health-related Web sites and other sites of interest. This list changes monthly as new sites are identified and existing sites add new features. We'd like maintaining the list to be an interactive process, so tell us about your favorite sites or what you'd like to be able to find on the Web. You can reach us by e-mail at [email protected].
Associations
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies—www.istss.org The society is dediated to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about policy, program, and service initiatives to reduce traumatic stressors and their immediate and long-term consequences. Its Web site offers news, membership information, treatment guidelines, and discussion groups for professionals who treat traumatic stress.
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law—www.aapl.orgIn addition to offering information on membership, publications, upcoming events, and fellowships offered by the academy, the site allows users to have questions answered by AAPL members on various topics in forensic psychiatry.
Health and Medicine
Center Watch—www.centerwatch.com Reports on clinical studies under way across the United States for many different diseases. Information is classified as useful to either patients or professionals. Users can subscribe to notification of any new studies for up to eight conditions.
LaurusHealth—www.laurushealth.com Offers daily news, a featured article on a specific health topic, an "ask the doctor" section that allows users to pose questions, and databases of doctors and hospitals listed by state.
Government
Centers for Disease Control's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)—www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm Offers general information on tobacco use, along with specific tips for children and teens to teach them to avoid tobacco use. The site also offers publications, help for those who wish to quit smoking, surgeon general's reports, and links to other online resources.
Other Useful Resources
Empowering Caregivers—www.care-givers.com Designed for persons caring for family members with various medical conditions and mental illnesses, the site offers a newsletter, bulletin boards and discussion lists related to specific illnesses, and links to Web sites that highlight caregiving of people with certain conditions.
Anna Freud Centre—www.annafreudcentre.org The center is a resource for improving the mental health of children worldwide. Its Web site offers information about research, training, events, and publications offered. Visitors may rent videotapes and apply to attend conferences online.
Featured Site
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation—www.bu.edu/sapsych
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities by improving professional training and services. Visitors to the center's Web site can read abstracts of articles in the latest issue of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and obtain subscription information. The site describes the center's extensive professional development program, in which clinicians can work toward a certificate in psychiatric rehabilitation by completing courses. Some courses are offered on the Internet, and professionals can also use the center's online publications catalog to order course materials in an independent study format. Visitors can download recent presentations by the center's research, training, and service staff and view past live Webcasts archived on the site. Special pages provide extensive information on reasonable workplace accommodations for persons with psychiatric disabilities, both for those with disabilities and for employers.
