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This page contains links to resources of use to mental health providers and consumers that are broad in scope. For sites on specific conditions go to the Internet Resources page and choose a more specific topic.

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  • PsycINFO Access to PsycINFO is through the OVID database collection. The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1400 journals and dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded. PsycLIT, available through the ULS, differs from PsycINFO in the following ways: (1) PsycLIT does not index dissertations or technical reports,and (2) PsycLIT is updated quarterly.
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation. By creating an organized resource of previously unavailable measurement information, HAPI: (a) provides a means of locating a variety of instruments, (b) helps to reduce inefficiency and cost, and (c) eliminates duplication and "reinvention of the wheel."
  • Online Full-Text Textbooks The following textbooks are available over the Internet to University of Pittsburgh and UPMC staff and faculty:
  • Online Full-Text Journals A large number of mental health journals are available for University of Pittsburgh and UPMC staff and faculty. To find out if a journal is available, check the Electronic Journals list or search PittCat
  • WPIC Video Catalog contains records for the video collection up through 1996. All videos will be added to PittCat soon. To find all videos in the WPIC collection using PittCat, use the "Set Search Limits" button to limit location to WPIC Library. Using the Guided Keyword search, search for the word "videocassette" in any field.
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Guides to Locating Internet Resources

  • About.com : Mental Health Resources . A large, somewhat busy looking site that includes Internet links, chat, news, and other resources both for professionals and consumers.
  • Behavioral and Mental Disorders compiled by the Karolinska Institutet
  • Mental Health Net . Three main sections; disorders, professional resources, and reading room. Sites they link to are rated.
  • Psych Central Covers mailing lists, newsgroups, web sites,Dr. Grohol's own writings, chat forums, and book reviews. Divided within topics into consumer and professional resources.
  • Psychwatch.com A site with links to a large variety of resources such as news, conferences, journals, job postings, etc. Also publishes a newsletter summarizing mental health news on the internet.
  • WebPsych Partnership . Run by the International Society for Mental Health Online, web sites listed here agree to uphold the standards created by the group on their web sites.
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