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Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective (1985)

This book provides information about different types of anxiety and how people can change their thinking to overcome the anxiety that is overwhelming them.

Depression and Related Affective Disorders

This is an organization for individuals with affective disorders and their families, friends, and mental health professionals. The organization provides support, referrals, and educational programs and publishes a quarterly newsletter, Smooth Sailing.

Don’t Panic (1986)

Wilson presents a self-help program for coping with panic attacks. You learn how to conquer panic attacks, especially through the use of self-monitoring, breathing exercises, focused thinking, mental imagery, and deep muscle relaxation.

Feeling Good (1980)

Feeling Good is a cognitive therapy approach to coping with depression. Burns outlines the techniques people can use to identify and combat false assumptions that underlie their flawed negative thinking. Another good choice is Burns’s The Feeling Good Handbook, which applies cognitive therapy to depression and other problems, including anxiety and those involving relationships.

International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation

This organization of mental health professionals and students promotes a greater understanding of dissociation.

National Foundation for Depressive Illness

This foundation provides information and education about recent medical advances in affective mood disorders; it also has
a referral service.

National Mental Health Association

This consumer advocacy organization is devoted to promoting mental health and improving the lives of individuals with a mental disorder. It publishes NMHA Focus four times a year, as well as pamphlets on mental health issues.

National Mental Health Consumers Association

This organization seeks to protect the rights of mental health clients in housing, employment, and public benefits; it encourages the creation of self-help groups and aids them in acquiring funding and networking with other organization.

Seeing Both Sides: Controversies in Abnormal Psychology (1995)

This book presents the pros and cons of nineteen controversial issues in abnormal psychology. The issues include whether psychotherapy is effective, whether psychiatric patients should be hospitalized against their will, and whether the diagnostic system is biased against females.

Youth Suicide National Center

This national clearinghouse develops and distributes educational materials on suicide and reviews current youth suicide prevention and support programs. Publication include Suicide in Youth and What You Can Do About It and Helping Your Child Choose Life: A Parent’s Guide to Youth Suicide.

Internet Resources

Explore the link between child abuse and multiple personality disorder.

A comprehensive site about substance abuse and other addiction problems.

http://www.long-beach.va.gov/ptsd/stress.html

A web site dedicated to understanding post-traumatic stress.

http://www.bowiestate.edu/departments/mckelvie/main.htm

A primer on ethical and legal issues in abnormal behavior.

http://www.cmhc.com/guide/dep2quiz.htm

On-line screening for depression.

http://www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/public.html

On-line screening instruments for a variety of mental health concerns.

http://www.iglou.com/fairlight/ocd/

A helpful site about obsessive-compulsive disorders.

http://www.moodswing.org/bdfaq.html

Frequently asked questions about bipolar disorder.

http://www.navicom.com/~patty/

A fascinating site devoted to borderline personality disorder.

http://www.uvm.edu/~cbcl/

A child behavior checklist for screening about behavior problems.

http://www.cmhc.com/guide/schizo.htm

Information for individuals with schizophrenia and their families.

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