Mental Health Metasites & Encyclopedias:
Mental Health - General Mental Health Web Resources - A listing of social work and mental health web site on the Internet. From the Mental Health Page of the Center for Science in Society, Bryn Mwar College.

Mental Health Links - Links to web sites on general mental health and specific mental disorders. From the University of Maryland Medical School.

Selected Internet Resources on Mental Health - Categorized links to online resources on mental health, government and public policy, news and listservs, psychology and social work.

Internet Mental Health - A multiple award winning site by Phillip W. Long, M.D. This is an online encyclopedia of mental health that provides research, news, information of disorders and online diagnosis.

Center for Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) - Links to online resources providing information on mental health publications, programs, news, services, and funding. Also includes a children's area and information in Spanish.

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Medical Search Engines:
Emory MedWeb - Maintained by Emory University. This is an Internet search engine for medical information. It is browseable through a subject directory or by a keyword search.

Medical Journals:

PUBMED - PUBMED is a database drawn from the MEDLINE Database and other scientific journals. The database contains over 11 million citations from over 4,000 journals from the United States and 70 other countries. Medline is also available on Lexis/Nexis (Access to Lexis/Nexis is Restricted to Students, Staff and Faculty of Our Lady of the Lake).

Mental Health Statistics:
Health Statistics: Mental Health - A starting point in finding mental health statistics. Compiled by the University of Chicago Library.

National Center For Health Statistics - A government web site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This site includes a multitude of U.S. and state health statistics.

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Mental Health Law:
Cornell University's Mental Health Law Overview - A short listing of web sites and cases dealing with mental health and the law.

Mental Health Reference Books:
The Merck Manual, Sec. 15, Psychiatric Disorders - This widely used general medical text provides information and diagnoses on psychiatric disorders in section 15 of text. The entire table of contents for the Merck Manual can be found here. The text can be browsed by sections and chapters, or searched by keyword.

Mental Health and Adolescents:
Mental Health Risk Factors for Adolescents - Links to web sites categorized by subject.

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