Mental health

BF Psychology
BF176 Psychological testing
HM251-291 Social psychology
HM1041-1101 Social perception. Social cognition Including perception of the self and others, prejudices, stereotype
HM1106-1171 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior
LB Educational psychology
QP351-495 Neurophysiology and neuropsychology
RC467 Clinical psychology
RC512-569.5 Psychopathology
RC512-528 Psychoses
RC530-552 Neuroses
RC554-569.5 Personality disorders. Behavior problems including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse
RC475-489 Therapeutics. Psychotherapy
RC500-510 Psychoanalysis
RC512-569.5 Psychopathology
RA1148 & HV6080 Forensic psychology

How-to Guides:

Psychological and Educational Tests

Evaluation

Evaluation:

DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic & statistical manual of mental disorders

International Classification of Disease (ICD) - Chapter 5 deals with mental and behavioural disorders

Mental measurements yearbook - comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.

Test critiques - evaluation of psychological & educational tests & measurements.

Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures - Journal published by the APA.

See the "How-to" guide on Psychological & Educational Tests

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

Key Databases

PsycArticles

PsycArticles is a database containing full-text access to journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.

PsycINFO

PsychINFO is a key resource in the study of psychology and contains journals, books, book chapters, reports, theses and dissertations in psychology and related fields.

Scopus

Scopus is an abstracting database covering research in the sciences and social sciences.

Web of Knowledge

Web of Knowledge includes material in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

Additional Databases

BMJ Clinical evidence

A continually updated directory of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. It provides concise and current knowledge about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions.

Cochrane Library

A source of up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

ERIC

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education

Informit Complete

Informit Complete is a set of over 80 Australian databases including the Australasian Medical Index (AMI), A+Education (AEI), Health & Society, APAIS-Health, Health Collection and more.

MEDLINEplus

MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on medical diseases and conditions.

Multimedia

Multimedia:

Counseling and Therapy in Video

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The videos in this collection have been drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry. Subject coverage includes material on race, family and relationships, gender, education and training, and substance abuse.

Counseling and psychotherapy : transcripts, client narratives and reference works.

Transcripts of actual therapy sessions, together with client narratives and major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of therapy and counseling sessions themselves.

Psyche visual online videos

Psyche Visual is an online resource providing ongoing access to a constantly updated library of video and multimedia presentations on aspects of psychology, psychiatry and mental health care.

The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy

The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy is a streaming video collection of the latest in research and best practice methods in the fields of counseling, mental health, and psychology.

Related Guides

Related Guides:

How-to Guides

Psychological and educational tests

Subject Guides

Referencing

APA (American Psychological Association) 6th ed Style Guides

Frequently Asked Questions about APA Syle

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed)

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources:

Ebooks available at:

PsycBOOKS

A full-text database of books and chapters from the American Psychological Association (APA). The collection features books published by APA. New APA publications enter the PsycBOOKS database in the year following copyright year.

Psychiatry Online

American Psychiatric Publishing (APPI), is a publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health, and behavioral sciences.

Statistics

Statistics:

SPSS for starters (introduction to the statistical package for social scientists).

Zentralblatt MATH - from the European Mathematical Society, includes applications for psychology.

Web Sites

Web Sites:

Professional organisations

American Psychology Association

Australian Clinical Psychology Association

Australian Psychological Society

Association for Psychological Science

British Psychological Society

General websites

BrainSource

CRUfAD Mental Health (formerly Climate Mental Health)

Social Psychology Network

What's New

What's New:

Health Sciences Blog - keep up to date with UQ Library developments in the Health Sciences.

Draft DSM-5

Published: Fri, 2012-05-25 15:11 by Jill McTaggart

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder PMDD is mooted to be included as a as a genuine psychiatric condition in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - 5). For more information about this and the other controversial proposals, read about it here.

PsychiatryOnline

Published: Fri, 2011-09-23 15:26 by Jill McTaggart

Mental Health

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias:

The Gale encyclopedia of mental disorders 2003 edited by Ellen Thackery and Madeline Harris

Assessment and therapy resource : specialty articles from The Encyclopedia of mental health / editor-in-chief, Howard S. Friedman

Mental Health - my virtual encyclopedia (US) resource

Addiction : a reference encyclopedia 2010

Handbooks:

The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness 2011 resource

The mental health handbook : a cognitive behavioural approach 3rd edition 2009 by Trevor Powell.

Grief counseling and grief therapy : a handbook for the mental health practitioner 4th ed 2009 by J. William Worden

Oxford handbook of mental health nursing 2006 edited by Patrick Callaghan, Helen Waldock.

Oxford handbook of psychiatry

Handbook of complementary and alternative therapies in mental health 2002 edited by Scott Shannon.

Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health 2010 resource

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

DSM IV TR online

Dictionaries:

Campbell's psychiatric dictionary 2004 by Robert Jean Campbell

Dorlands illustrated medical dictionary

The language of mental health : a glossary of psychiatric terms 2011 by Narriman C. Shahrokh ... al.

Dictionary of ethical and legal terms and issues : the essential guide for mental health professionals 2007 by Len Sperry.

Psychiatric dictionary

Lexicon of psychiatric and mental health terms

The language of mental health : a glossary of psychiatric terms

Clinical Practice

Clinical Practice:

Essentials of psychiatry

Foundations of clinical psychiatry

Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry

Evidence Based Practice

Evidence Based Practice:

Evidence-based policy and practice in mental health social work 2011

The evidence-based practice : methods, models, and tools for mental health professionals 2005

BMJ Best Practice - Database

In a single source BMJ has combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion - presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking multiple resources. At its core, Best Practice contains the BMJ's Clinical Evidence

Practice Guidelines - RANZCP

Cochrane Library - information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health

Evidence-based mental health (e journal)

Evidence-based mental health care by Simon Hatcher, Rob Butler, Mark Oakley-Browne.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles:

PsycINFO - Journals, books & book chapters, reports, theses & dissertations in psychology & related fields.

PsycArticles - Journals published by the APA, Canadian Psychological Association plus Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

BMJ Clinical evidence - Directory of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions

Cochrane Library - Information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

CINAHL - Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals.

Embase.com - A database which provides access to the biomedical literature with over 2,000 biomedical titles not currently offered by MEDLINE.

Informit Collections - Set of Australian databases including Australasian Medical Index (AMI), A+Education (AEI), Health & Society, APAIS-Health, Health Collection & more.

Medline - Ovid version of Medline. Provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

MEDLINEplus - Specialising in medical diseases & conditions, non/ & prescription drugs, medical encyclopaedias & dictionaries & links to clinical trials.

PubMed - PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Scopus - Abstracting database covering scientific, technical, medical & the social sciences.

Web of Knowledge - Includes Current Contents - ranging from social & behavioural sciences, life sciences, arts & humanities

Journals

Journals:

Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry - Australian psychiatry journal published by the Australian and NZ College of Psychiatrists

Archives of general psychiatry - a highly ranked mental health journal

Current opinion in psychiatry

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry

BMC psychiatry

Psychiatry online journals

A list of UQ Mental Health Journals

Legislation

Australia:

Mental Health Act - Queensland

Related Guides

Related Guides:

Counselling

Psychological and educational tests

Psychology

Secondary Materials

Secondary Materials:

Books

Psychiatric secrets 2nd ed

A handbook for the study of mental health : social contexts, theories, and systems 2010 edited by Teresa L. Scheid et al

Community mental health for older people 2010

Addiction medicine resource : science and practice 2011

Browsing the shelves

You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:-

BF176 - Psychological testing

HM1106-1171 - Interpersonal relations. Social behavior

RC435-571 - Psychiatry

RC440 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

RC451 - Geriatric Psychiatry

RC455 - Mental Health Services and Ethics

RC480 - Emergency Psychiatry

RC554-569.5 - Personality disorders. Behavior problems including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse

RC564 - Addiction Medicine

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources:

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

Current diagnosis & treatment psychiatry resource

Fish's clinical psychopathology : signs and symptoms in psychiatry 2007

Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health 2010 resource

Online counselling resource : a handbook for mental health professionals 2010

Psychiatry Online - books, journals & multimedia on psychiatry, mental health & behavioural sciences from APPI (American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.)

Disorders resource

Internet Mental Health (US) resource

Internet Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long.

Web Sites

Web Sites:

Australian Department of Health and Ageing - Mental Health

American Psychiatric Association

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) - Mental Health

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health - a UK website focussing on EBM and mental health providing information about trials in which they are involved, an EBM toolkit, information on critical appraisal and a CATmaker

Grieflink - Grieflink is an information resource for the berieved and grieving, their carers, friends and colleagues, and for health and welfare workers

Mental Health Association QLD (MHAQ) - MHAQ provides quality early intervention mental health services and programs that support the community to make mental health connections, develop mental health literacy and participate in employment as a foundation for recovery.

Mental Health Council of Australia - The Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA) is the peak, national non-government organisation representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector, committed to achieving better mental health for all Australians.

Queensland Health - Mental Health

Psychiatry - Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland

RANZCP - The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Psychiatry

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks:

Oxford handbook of psychiatry

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

DSM IV TR online

Dictionaries:

Dorlands illustrated medical dictionary

Campbell's psychiatric dictionary

Psychiatric dictionary

Lexicon of psychiatric and mental health terms

The language of mental health : a glossary of psychiatric terms

Clinical Practice

Clinical Practice:

Essentials of psychiatry

Foundations of clinical psychiatry

Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry

Evidence Based Practice

Evidence Based Practice:

BMJ Best Practice - Best Practice is a new concept for information delivered at the point of care. In a single source BMJ has combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion - presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

Practice Guidelines - RANZCP

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health

Evidence-based mental health (e journal)

Evidence-based mental health care by Simon Hatcher, Rob Butler, Mark Oakley-Browne.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles:

Medline - Ovid version of Medline. Provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

Embase.com - A database which provides access to the biomedical literature with over 2,000 biomedical titles not currently offered by MEDLINE.

CINAHL - Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals.

PsycINFO - journals, books & book chapters, reports, theses & dissertations in psychology & related fields.

Informit Health Collection - Fulltext Australian databases covering research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles

Scopus - abstracting database covering scientific, technical, medical & the social sciences.

Web of Knowledge - includes Current Contents - ranging from social & behavioural sciences, life sciences, arts & humanities

Journals

Journals:

Current opinion in psychiatry

Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry

BMC psychiatry

Psychiatry online journals

Legislation

Australia:

Queensland - Mental Health Act

Related Guides

Related Guides:

Counselling

Grief & loss

Psychological and educational tests

Psychology

Secondary Materials

Secondary Materials:

Secondary resources, such as books, ebooks, print journals and multimedia can be found via the Library Catalogue or by browsing the shelves at the relevant library.

RC435-571 Psychiatry
RC440 Psychiatric Nursing
RC451 Geriatric Psychiatry
RC480 Emergency Psychiatry

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources:

PsychiatryOnline - a comprehensive resource providing access to textbooks, journals, guidelines, patient information and clinical and research news

Fish's clinical psychopathology : signs and symptoms in psychiatry

Web Sites

Web Sites:

Psychiatry - Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

American Psychiatric Association

Queensland Health - Mental Health

Australian Department of Health and Ageing. Mental Health