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MENTAL HEALTH Materials provided here are neither intended nor suitable for individuals needing practical assistance with specific mental health problems of their own or of friends/family/colleagues. For such situations, people should contact local mental health agencies, doctors, or other health care professionals. Some access points are provided here.

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• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
  CADCA's weekly e-news is a source of information on the latest events, new reports, legislation, conferences, trainings, and other important information in the substance abuse prevention coalition movement. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "CADCA E-News: Sign Up".

• Capitol City Publishers
  Specialized news, information and analysis via several different channels, including newsletters, executive reports, conferences and the Internet. Newsletters are designed to keep readers current on the latest news coming out of Washington, D.C., the state capitals and local governments.

• National Institute of Mental Health
  The mission of NIMH is to diminish the burden of mental illness through research in an attempt to achieve better understanding, treatment and, eventually prevention of mental illness. Subscrition available to an E-news list serv that provides intermittent e-mail announcements regarding new additions and significant changes to the NIMH website.

• Center for the Advancement of Health
  Provides information on how biology interacts with behavior, social relationships and community characteristics to produce health and illness. Subscription available to Health Behavior Inforamtion Transfer (HABIT), a newsletter distributed triweekly via e-mail to and provides updates on funding and policy issues, opportunities to take action, and summaries of articles on the health and behavior research community.

• MindView Newsletter
  A newsletter from the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clincal Center providing information on mental illness and neurology.

• JTO Wire
  National news, research, alerts, funding news, and grant announcements from Join Together Online, a substance abuse/violence prevention web site for professionals sponsored by Boston University School of Public Health. This page provides subscription information.

• Medscape
  You must register to Medscape to recieve the weekly e-mail newsletter, Medpulse, telling you what's new on Medscape. This registration also provides you with access to all contents and features, including full-text clinical medicine artilces, searchable database, daily medical news and continuing medical education resources. To register, click on this link, which will take you to the Medscape homepage, then click on Register Here.

• The Behavioral Healthcare Community
  A weekly e-mail newsletter of best practices, news, special book reviews, and industry interviews. To subscribe, click on this link, which will take you to an informational page (including a sample newsletter), then click on Join.

• The Psychwatch Newsletter
  A weekly e-mail publication that provides information and links to news events and sites that are of interest to professionals in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and mental health. To subscribe, click on this link which will take you to the Psychwatch homepage, then click on Newsletters to join.

• AtHealth
  Friday's Progress Notes is a weekly e-newsletter focusing on specific mental health topics. Click on this link and you be connected to a page explaining the newsletter and subscription information. Subscription can be specified for student, practitioner, academic or other.

• Mental Health Resources
  This newlsetter provides information on a variety of issues and news related to mental health issues. To subscribe click on this link and you be connected to the homepage. Then enter your e-mail address where it states Stay up to date: Subscribe to our newsletter on the left side of the page.

• Healthy Child
  Receive informative articles, current news, health tips, recipes, and resources regarding children. Click on this link and you will be connected to the subscription page.

• Neuroscience-Net
  A major new electronic scientific journal. The articles you see here will contain some of the most exciting neuroscience research data in existence, and they will be published in a very timely fashion.

• Child-Maltreatment-Research-L
  A discussion group for child maltreatment researchers. To subscribe, click on the link and send an electronic mail message containing the text: subscribe Child-Maltreatment-Research-L your name. Example: subscribe Child-Maltreatment-Research-L Brenda Smith.

• MHLIB
  A discussion forum for mental health consultants, professionals and librarians working or having an interest in mental health. The primary purpose of the MHLIB is to share information, answer questions, share available duplicate materials, and post announcements of conferences and employment opportunities. To subscribe, click on this link which will take you to the MHLIB homepage, then click on the link under MHLIB to join.

• Psych-DD Listserv
  This organization deals with individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health problems. This listserv is the discussion forum for the Mental Health Services Special Interest Group and the Psychology Division. Halfway down the page an informational link is provided on how to subscribe to the listserv.

• National Institute of Corrections
  NIC Mental Health Administrators e-mail discussion list focusing on mental health issues related to the criminal justice system. Click on this link which will bring you to a membership guidelines page explaining how to subscribe to the listserv.

• Dual Diagnosis Mailing List
  To subscribe, click on the link and send an electronic mail message containing the text: subscribe dualdiag your name. Example: subscribe dualdiag Brenda Smith.

• American Mental Health APH Listserv
  To subscribe, click on the link and send an electronic mail message containing the text: subscribe APHAMH-L Your E-mail Address. Example: subscribe APHAMH-L userid@concentric.net.

• API-SAMH Mental Health/Substance Abuse Issues Listserv
  To subscribe, click on the link and send an electronic mail message containing the text: subscribe api-samh your e-mail address. Example: subscribe API-SAMH userid@concentric.net.

• Center for Mental Health in Schools
  Listserv Name: Mentalhealth-L.

• The National Association of School Psychologists' (NASP)
  The school psychologists action network list. Contact Libby Kuffner to be added to the SPAN List.

• Leadership Policy Cadre for Mental Health in Schools
  Listserv Name: Leaders-l

• National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (Mental Health Section)
  Listserv Name: MHSection-l

• Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development and Learning

General Listserv Directories

• Maternal and Child Listserves Network (MCH E-Net)
  The Maternal & Child Health E-mail Network is a community of listservs, or electronic mailing lists, that are hosted by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau at the Institute for Child Health Policy.

• Discussion Lists in Neurosciences and Mental Health
  This page contains a list of links to listservs in the areas of general discussion links, e-mail newsletters and journals, and discussion lists on nervous and mental diseases.

• Social Work Listservs
  A list of direct links to listserves related to various areas of social work listed by the Social Work Access Network (SWAN).

• Mental Health Listservs
  A list of listservs from ERIC dealing with various mental health disorders and issues.

• National Center for Health Statistics
  A list of links to listservs in a variety of healthcare areas. Subscription information after you click on each specific link.

• Psychology Listservs
  A list of psychology related listserv links. Click on each specific link to subscribe. Topics include social work, psychology, psychiatry, and specific mental health disorders.

These resource lists are being maintained by Debbie Plotnick, working with Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, and James Martin, School of Social Work and Social Research, at Bryn Mawr College. Suggestions for additions to the list are welcome, as are more general thoughts about how to most effectively make available information, and promote conversation, about issues of mental health. Contact dplotnic@brynmawr.edu - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu - jmartin@brynmawr.edu.


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