Caring for Your Mind: Resources and Tools for Your Mental Health

Special thanks to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine - Middle Atlantic Region for their workshop today on Caring for Your Mind: Resources and Tools for Your Mental Health.  Here are a few resource highlights:

• American Psychological Association & The Road to Resilience
• This Emotional Life, PBS
• The Social Life of Health Information, Pew Internet
• MedlinePlus, NLM NIH
• start with the health topics
• use the medical encyclopedia for basic information
• find providers and hospitals/facilities in directories
• find support groups in organization section
• learn more about drug information
• learn about supplements
• National Institute of Mental Health (including booklet and patient handouts by request, online videos, Spanish information)
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM; information for patients and clinicians)
• Drug Information Portal,  NLM NIH
• Pillbox
• Daily Med
• LactMed
• Dietary Supplements Labels Database
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• PubMed Health, NLM NIH (including clinical effectiveness research)
• PubMed, NCBI NLM NIH (including several tutorials, clinical queries, filtering of nurses journals)
• Beers Criteria for Potentially InappropriateMedication Use in Older Adults (2012), American Geriatrics Society
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Substance Abuse and Mental Services Administration (SAMSA; including treatment locator, 24/7 treatment referrel line; suicide prevention line; disaster distress helpline)
• Directory of Health Organizations, NLM NIH
• Health Hotlines, NLM NIH
• NLM Mobile Resources

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UCONN HealthNet Mental Health Guide
ReachOut Reads (teens)