Bipolar
Disorder - Patient and Family Guide:
http://www.psychguides.com/gl-treatment_of_bipolar_disorder.html
This is a companion site to the Treatment
Guidelines site. It contains excellent information for families and mental
health professionals. (Available in Spanish).
Depression:
http://www.mhsource.com/advocacy/narsad/dep.html
This pamphlet is a very high quality overview of
depression, including various treatments, from the respected National Alliance
for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). As in many publications,
some of the information on medications is out of date or incomplete (also
in Spanish).
Depression
Central:
http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.html
An excellent resource for all kinds
of information related to depression. Dr. Ivan Goldberg, who runs this
site, is very active on the internet and well respected.
Depression
in Children and Adolescents
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depchildresfact.cfm
This is an excellent summary, from NIMH, including
references.
Guide to
Mood Disorders: Seasonal
Affective Disorder (SAD): Self-help
for Suicide and Depression: Treatment
Guidelines:
http://www.ndmda.org/PDF/Guide1.pdf
This is a useful, comprehensive manual from the
National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association (NDMDA) for consumers,
family members and clinicians (1999).
http://www.websciences.org/sltbr/links.htm
Sponsored by the Society for Light Treatment and
Biological Rhythms (SLTBR), this is a good comprehensive site for information
on seasonal affective disorder, winter depression, and related mood disorders.
http://www.have-a-heart.com/
This is a self-help site regarding issues of suicide
and depression. It includes very practical self-help techniques for dealing
with negative thoughts and manic states.
http://www.psychguides.com
This site contains the "expert consensus" treatment
guidelines for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive
disorder. These are very useful, but differ from the American Psychiatric
Association's practice guidelines, which are more comprehensive (some of
which are available on line at http://www.psych.org/clin_res/prac_guide.cfm).
These "expert consensus" treatment guidelines have also been used in developing
the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) guidelines, which are on
this site under"Medications." For yet another important set of treatment
guidelines, see the Schizophrenia Treatment guidelines (PORT) listed (under
Schizophrenia) on the Specific Psychiatric Disorders page and also on the
Medications page.