Tufts Resources

Databases

See also: Tufts Psychology E-resources

• AARP AgeLine [EBSCO]
  American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
  Materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business, health and health care services, and consumer issues.
• MEDLINE [Ovid]
  National Library of Medicine
  International biomedical journal literature includes over 11 million journal citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, healthcare systems, and pre-clinical sciences. Same MEDLINE database as available from PubMed but uses more enhanced software.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
  Provides evaluative information to promote and encourage informed test selection. Typical entries include descriptive information, one or two professional reviews, and reviewer references. To be reviewed a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series.
• PEP Web Archive Online
  PEP is a digital archive of many of the major works of psychoanalysis. It includes the complete works of Sigmund Freud, an archive of works from twenty psychoanalytic journals (1920-2003), and complete versions of other, classic psychoanalytic texts.
• PsycINFO [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
  American Psychological Association
  Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.
• Web of Knowledge
  Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
  Provides retrospective access with cited references from articles covered from 1974 in: Arts & Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Journals

The following journals are currently available online. For additional journals, search the Tufts Catalog (select Journal Title) or Serials Solutions.

Texts

• Campbell's psychiatric dictionary
  Reserve WM 13 C189p 2004

• Clinical manual of women's mental health
  5th floor WM 140 B973c 2005 

• Community child and adolescent psychiatry : a manual of clinical practice and consultation
  5th floor WM 30 C729 2006

• Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV-TR

• A dictionary of psychology

• Essentials of child and adolescent psychiatry
  5th floor WS 350 E778 2006

• Evidence-based mental health care
  Library Service Desk WM 400 H361e 2005

• Geropsychological interventions in long-term care
  5th floor  WT 31 G3773 2006    

• Handbook of medical psychiatry

• Improving mental healthcare : a guide to measurement-based quality improvement
  5th floor WM 30 H552i 2005 

• Introductory textbook of psychiatry
  Reserve WM 100 A557i 2006

• Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry
  Reserve WM 100 K173 2005

• Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of general hospital psychiatry
  Reserve WM 140 M414 2004 

• Oxford handbook of psychiatry
  Reserve WM 34 O98 2005 

• Perspectives in cross-cultural psychiatry
  5th floor WM 400 P467 2005

• The psychiatric interview: a practical guide
  5th floor  WM 34 C278p 2005

• Psychiatric secrets

• Psychiatry for neurologists
  5th floor WM 140 P975 2006

• Psychodynamic psychiatry in clinical practice
  5th floor WM 400 G112p 2005

• Rapid psychiatry
  5th floor WM 34 H624r 2004

• Review of general psychiatry
  Reserve WM 100 R454  2000

• Substance abuse
  

Government & International Agencies

Local and State

• Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

National

• Center for Mental Health Services
  U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  Information on mental health services including news, publications, hotlines, links to state services and statistics.
• National Institute of Mental Health
  Information about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. Included are brochures and information sheets, reports, press releases, fact sheets, and other educational materials.

International

• Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health (CEBMH)
  Part of a national network of Centres for Evidence-Based Health Care based at Oxford University, CEBMH seeks to: (1) Promote the teaching and practice of evidence-based health care (EBHC) throughout the UK (with special emphasis on evidence-based mental health) and internationally; and (2) Develop, evaluate, and disseminate improved methods of using research in practice, and incorporate these in the teaching methods of the CEBMH.
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Mental Health
  Provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic

Academic & Society Sites

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association
• American Psychological Association
• American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training

Statistics

• Mental Illness Statistics
  National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  
Provides links to statistics on mental illness in the United States by type of disorders as well as the Impact of Mental Illness on Society report and Epidemiology of Mental Illness report from the Office of the Surgeon General.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics
  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  Includes national statistics on binge drinking, smoking, drug abuse, substance abuse treatment services, drug related emergency room visits, and special topics. See also the SAMHSA list of information clearinghouses and services.
  

Web Guides

• MEDLINEPlus: Mental Health
• Mental Health - New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
• Mental Help Net
  Includes news, book reviews, self help information as well as a glossary and a mental health disorders index.
  
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
  Advocacy group for persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Web site provides links to information on mental health disorders, medications and research.
• The New York Times - Articles about Mental Health and Disorders
  A free collection of articles about mental health and disorders published in The New York Times.