Links
The following links are provided for professionals and customers trying to understand and cope with different mental health disorders.
Resources for Parents and Professionals Helping Kids Cope with the 09-11-2001 Attack
- About Our Kids
- The New York University Child Study Center's multi-disciplinary team of professionals is dedicated to advancing the field of mental health for children and their families through evidence-based practice, science, and education. Some topics covered include:
. About Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
. Coping With Trauma
. Guidelines for Parents (in English and Español)
. Guidelines for Teachers
. Preventing Bias and Hate in Children
. Talking to Children About Terrorism and Acts of War (in English and Español)
Professional
- Bipolar Home
- Site On The Symptoms, Treatment, Understanding, and Coping with Bipolar Affective Disorder (BAD)(a.k.a.: Manic-Depressive Disorder) in Children and Adults.
- Psychiatric Times
- An Index for the following topics: ADD/ADHD, Advocacy, Alzheimer's, Anxiety, Panic & Phobic Disorders, Bipolar, Book Reviews, Careers in Mental Health, Children & Adolescents, Computers & Psychiatry, Cults, Depression, Diagnosis and Treatment, Eating Disorders, Ethics, Gay & Lesbian Issues, Headache, Law and Psychiatry, Managed Care, Neuropsychiatry, OCD, Patient Abuse, Personality Disorders, Pharmacotherapy, PTSD, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia, Sexual Issues, Sleep Disorders, Studies and Research, Substance Abuse/Addictive Behavior, Suicide, Tic Disorders, Violent/Self Destructive Behaviors, Women's Issues, Work-Related Issues.
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- A Dialogue on Youth: From Neuroscience to Effective Service.
- Prevention Pathways
- Prevention Pathways is committed to providing
information and education about preventing problems that come from the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. - Prevention Pathways Newsletters
- Monthly and quarterly newsletters for closer looks at prevention, Information for School Community Intervention Program (SCIP) teams in Region IV, Northern Nebraska, and an informational newsletter for families.
Family
- Asperger Syndrome
- ONLINE ASPERGER SYNDROME INFORMATION AND SUPPORT: Asperger Syndrome or (Asperger's Disorder) is a neurobiological disorder named for a Viennese physician, Hans Asperger, who in 1944 published a paper which described a pattern of behaviors in several young boys who had normal intelligence and language development, but who also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and marked deficiencies in social and communication skills.
- Prevention Pathways
- Prevention Pathways is committed to providing
information and education about preventing problems that come from the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. - Prevention Pathways Newsletters
- Monthly and quarterly newsletters for closer looks at prevention, Information for School Community Intervention Program (SCIP) teams in Region IV, Northern Nebraska, and an informational newsletter for families.
- Father Leo Booth
- Creating Healthy Spirituality: Spiritual stimulation and information that seeks to be inclusive and non-denominational.
- Answers 4 Families
- Serving Nebraskans with Special Needs by providing answers, information, and support throughout the Life Span. They have e-mail discussion groups for each of their target groups. Registered users may also access their 'AskRx' service and the new 'Ask An Expert' service.
- Apraxia-Kids
- The Internet's most comprehensive site for information on developmental apraxia of speech (verbal dyspraxia) and children's speech and language topics, including evaluation, therapy and other childhood communication topics. Invaluable for parents, speech language pathologists, teachers and all those who care about a child with apraxia.
- CHADD
- Children and adults with attention deficict/hyperactivity disorder (CHADD) Nebraska. CHADD's has four primary objectives: (1) to maintain a support network for parents who have children with ADD and adults with ADD; (2) to provide a forum for continuing education of parents, professionals, and adults with ADD about the disability; (3) to be a community resource for information about ADD; and (4) to make the best educational experiences available to children with ADD so that their specific difficulties will be recognized and appropriately managed within educational settings.