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Chapter 13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Types of Treatment
Psychoanalysis
This site of the American Psychoanalytic Association explains psychoanalysis and provides links to psychoanalytic resources.
http://apsa.org/pubinfo/about.htm
Gestalt Therapy
The Gestalt Therapy Page describes Gestalt therapy
and offers numerous links to books and other materials relating to it.
http://www.gestalt.org
Behavioral Therapy
The site of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy has descriptions of behavioral therapies and how and where they are used.
http://www.aabt.org/generalpublic
Cognitive Therapy
The site of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research has information about cognitive therapy and provides reading lists, assessment scales, and links to related therapy sites.
http://www.beckinstitute.org
Group Therapy
The Group Psychotherapy site explains group therapy, provides reading lists, and has numerous links to other group therapy sites.
http://www.group-psychotherapy.com
Medications
The Internet Mental Health Medications site provides lists of common psychoactive drug treatments, along with information about how they work, what they are used for, their side effects, and research on their effectiveness.
http://www.mentalhealth.com/p30-note.html
Biological Treatments
The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology site collects and presents information on the potential dangers of psychoactive drugs, electroconvulsive shock, and other forms of biological treatment.
http://www.breggin.com
Treatment of Mood Disorders
Efficacy of Treatment for Depression
Read a summary (and access the full report) of the government's meta-analysis of hundreds of studies about the efficacy of depression treatment.
National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association
This is the site of the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association. It has links to information about and treatment for mood disorders.
http://www.ndmda.org
Depression
This is one of the largest Internet resources on depression, supported by Bristol-Myers Squibb, a pharmaceutical company.
National Foundation for Depressive Illness
Site of the National Foundation for Depressive Illness, Inc., this is another large depression site. Note that only the top-level domain name (org vs. com) separates this site from the previous site.
http://www.depression.org/
Schizophrenia Treatment
Families of People with Schizophrenia
Read an entire book devoted to families of people with schizophrenia, courtesy of the Canadian government.
http://www.mentalhealth.com/book/p40-sc01.html
Schizophrenia.com
The home page of schizophrenia.com, a nonprofit organization providing information, support, and education about schizophrenia.
http://www.schizophrenia.com/
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