From Serendip

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.

 
Center
for
Science
in
Society

Treatment Approach Issues

With the emergence over the past thirty years or so of increasingly effective pharmacological agents, as well as the explosive growth of the brains sciences, there has become an increasing need to consider the relative importance of more "medical" and more "psychological" approaches to the handling of mental conditions. The links given below are relevant to discussions of this more general issue.

GENERAL TREATMENT ISSUES MOOD DISORDERS ANXIETY DISORDERS
SCHIZOPHRENIA SUBSTANCE RELATED DISORDERS PERSONALITY DISORDERS
SLEEP DISORDERS DEBATES  



GENERAL TREATMENT ISSUES


MOOD DISORDERS


Reviews written by students at Bryn Mawr College


ANXIETY DISORDERS


Reviews written by students at Bryn Mawr College


SCHIZOPHRENIA

Reviews written by students at Bryn Mawr College


SUBSTANCE RELATED DISORDERS

Reviews written by students at Bryn Mawr College


PERSONALITY DISORDERS


SLEEP DISORDERS


DEBATES

Reviews written by students at Bryn Mawr College

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS


Back to Mental Health Project.

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.


| Conversations | Mental Health | Science in Culture | Serendip Home |

Send us your comments at Serendip

© by Serendip 1994- - Last Modified: Wednesday, 02-May-2018 10:51:31 CDT