Behavioral Health Sourcebook
Comprehensive information on behavioral health issues. Glossary of common terms, disorders and treatment, medications and pharmacology resources, behavioral health fact sheets, national statistics, and other topical issues.
Mental Health
Glossary
Dictionaries of common mental health terms for professionals and laypersons.
Common Disorders
Information and resources on mental health and substance abuse conditions and disorders, including descriptions, treatment, research, informational booklets, and links to related sites. Includes summary of DSM IV diagnostic criteria for mental health and substance abuse disorders
Medications
and Psychopharmacology Resources
Information about medications commonly prescribed for behavioral health conditions. Includes general reference sources and pharmacology databases; drug uses, benefits, risks, side effects, contraindications, and current research; pharmacology newsgroups and mailing lists; pharmacology journals and professional organizations. |
Fact Sheets
Brief fact sheets on a variety of mental health and substance abuse topics.
Statistics
National data on mental health and substance abuse prevalence, epidemiology, prevention, treatment, and more.
Topical Resources
and Links
Links to online resources
for many behavioral health issues, arranged alphabetically. Find information
on substance abuse, eating disorders, depression, attention deficit
disorder, domestic violence, and more. |
Mental Health Glossary
The Interactive Glossary of Mental Health and Disability Terms provides descriptions and definitions of mental health and disability related terms.
Mental Health Terms Glossary - A compilation of mental health terms and definitions.
Common Disorders
Behavioral
Health Conditions and Disorders - Information and resources on mental
health and substance abuse conditions and disorders, including descriptions,
treatment, research, informational booklets, and links to related sites.
Disorders,
Symptoms, Treatment, and Resources - Alphabetic list of adult, child,
and personality disorders, with information about diagnosis, treatment,
and professional and community resources.
Mental Health InfoSource Disorder Sites: Award-winning web sites with current information about depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders.
National
Institute of Mental Health Depression Web Site - Award-winning web
site and links to the most current information about depression.
Medications and Psychopharmacology
Resources
- Prescription
Medications - Comprehensive information about prescription drugs,
including pharmacology, indications, contraindications, warnings,
precautions, adverse effects, overdose, supplied dosages, current
research.
- Mental
Help Net Rx List - Links to selected psychopharmacology web sites,
resources, and databases.
Fact Sheets
Statistics
Looking for data? Writing a paper or a brochure? Preparing a presentation? Look here for current statistics on every aspect of mental health and substance abuse.
U.S. Government data sources:
SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- SAMHSA's three agency websites maintain data files on the numbers
of people using or needing to use the nation's network of substance
abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services.
SAMHSA's data-gathering operations help to determine the numbers of
people at risk for mental and addictive disorders; their access to
preventive services; treatment and other intervention services available
in communities to people experiencing mental illnesses and substance
abuse disorders; dollars available per capita; and many other variables.
SAMHSA also assesses what treatments work for whom; examines what
makes quality care; and determines whether needs and services are
a good fit. Data are available from:
- Center
for Mental Health Services
- Center
for Substance Abuse Treatment - Treatment Improvement Exchange
- SAMHSA - National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
- Drug
abuse statistics
- Treatment
statistics
- SAMHSA's
Office of Applied Studies (OAS) provides the latest national data
on (1) alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug abuse, (2) drug
related emergency department episodes and medical examiner cases,
and (3) the nation's substance abuse treatment system.
- National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Statistics on the prevalence
of many mental health conditions, compiled by the National Institute
of Mental Health.
- National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) NIDA Infofax, Research, and NIDA
Notes - comprehensive data on drug abuse and related issues.
- National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) ETOH Database, Quick Facts,
and other Research on alcoholism and alcohol abuse.
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Other sources of mental health and substance abuse data:
- Children’s
Action Alliance Facts and publications related to the health status
of children and adolescents. Primary focus is on Arizona; however,
some national and other state data is included.
- Indiana
Prevention Resource Center National and international statistics
on substance abuse.
- Join
Together Data on substance abuse consumption, injuries, rates
and trends, prevention, treatment, criminal penalties, public policy,
laws, and substances. Information can be used to create user-specific
fact sheets on substance abuse.
- Mental-Health-Matters Links to sites providing statistics and searchable databases on substance
abuse and mental health-related topics, including domestic violence,
child abuse, psychiatric disabilities, and many more.
- Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive Includes a list of substance-abuse
and mental-health surveys and studies.
- Substance
Abuse Research and Disability Issues (SARDI) SARDI's mission is
to conduct research, provide collaborative consultation and treatment,
and conduct training on substance abuse and disability conditions.
The three major components of SARDI are:
- Consumer
Advocacy Model The collaborative, community based, seamless treatment
service delivery component of SARDI is the Consumer Advocacy Model
(CAM) Program. CAM was developed for people with substance abuse and
at least one severe co-existing disability.
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Other Data and Statistics Resources:
- Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program People receiving mental health services, and people managing and providing those services, have questions about who's providing the best services at the best price, who needs services, what the best treatments are for different kinds of problems, or who has the friendliest staff. To answer any of these questions, people need dependable information. That's what MHSIP is about--mental health information (or data), how to collect it, what needs to be collected, where to find what others have collected, how to understand what you find, how to report it so other people can understand it, and how to use it to make decisions.
Topical Resources and Links
Links to online resources
for many behavioral health issues, arranged alphabetically. Find information
on substance abuse, eating disorders, depression, attention deficit
disorder, domestic violence, and much more.
Libraries of Topical Information:
Specialty Information Sources:
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