Hekman Library: Mental Health: A CCW Guide: Find General Resources

Featured Books on Mental Health

Promoting Safe and Effective Transitions to College for Youth with Mental Health Conditions

Mental Health Issues: The University Student

Sage Encyclopedia of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid

Featured Web Resources

American Psychiatric Association: Mental Health Pages
Browse these resources by topic, gender, and race in order to get straightforward information on mental health issues.
Half of Us
Half of Us is a website that "wants to initiate a public dialogue to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health issues and connect students to the appropriate resources to get help."
Healthy Minds. Healthy Lives. Blog
The American Psychiatric Association's blog on mental health issues.
MentalHelp.net
This "website exists to promote mental health and wellness education and advocacy."
National Institute of Mental Health
"The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure."
ULifeline
This website features mental health resources specifically geared toward college students.

Recommended Databases for Research

APA PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Provided by the American Psychological Association, APA PsycINFO offers access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. When you search APA PsycINFO, you are also searching the ProQuest Psychology Database and the APA PsycARTICLES database.
Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index contains more than 3,000 across 58 social sciences disciplines, as well as selected items from the world’s leading scientific and technical journals. Approaching 10 million records, the content dates back from 1900 to present.
Divided into 24 ‘quality’ criteria and four ‘impact’ criteria, our editors select the most influential journals in their respective fields (using citation activity as the primary indicator of impact) for the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Psychology Database (ProQuest)
The Psychology Database is a highly accessible resource for students, teachers, and researchers with full text from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications, and diverse sources of content including dissertations and training videos to help new students bridge theory with practice.
The database encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychological and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more.
PubMed
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It facilitates searching across several NLM resources, including MEDLINE and PubMed Central. Coverage extends from the 1940s to the present day.

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