Mental health websites​

Each of these websites covers a wide variety of disorders, treatment and management strategies.

• Cochrane Summaries

Each Cochrane Review summary page displays the full plain language summary and provides links to the abstract, other reviews by the same review group, the full review on TheCochraneLibrary.com and podcasts, journal clubs, PEARLS, and news items where these are available.  The bottom of the summary page has an automatically generated list of reviews on similar topics with links to their summary pages.

Canada

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

• HealthLinkBC
  • Medications: 
  • Health topics (includes overview of disorders): 
• Heretohelp

HeretoHelp is a project of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information.

• Addiction and mental health self-help resources
• Personal stories

• Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre

The Centre offers information and resources on a wide range of mental health and substance use issues affecting children and youth in British Columbia. These include, but are not limited to; depression, anxiety, attention deficit and behavioural problems, child/youth eating disorders and substance use.

• Resource library

US

• American Academy of child & adolescent psychiatry:
  • Facts for families
  • Parents' med guide
  • Living with mental illness: books, stories, memoires
• MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is the American National Institutes of Health's web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine., Search  for information about diseases, conditions, and wellness.

• Easy to read materials

• National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)

• Brochures, booklets and factsheets
• Information is organized by disorder and includes information about new research

UK

• NHS Choices

NHS Choices is the National Health Service (UK) consumer website.

• Health A-Z: Conditions and Treatments

• Patient.co.uk

Patient.co.uk is a UK-based independent health site for both patients and health professionals

• Mental health information: 
• Information about medications: 

• Healthtalk.org

healthtalk.org provides free, reliable information about health issues, by sharing people's real-life experiences. The research  that informs the choice of issues and range of viewpoints is carried out by the Health Experiences Research Group at Oxford University's Department of Primary Care.

Note: Use Internet Explorer to view videos.

Australia

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) is a specialist program that is administered through North Metropolitan Health Services in Western Australia. Information packages (information, worksheets, activities) cover strategies for managing depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, anxiety