A national association dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing; has established standards for art therapy education, ethics, and practice.
Easy-to-use site for finding information on drug and alcohol addiction. Also provides links to additional resources on statistics, treatment, organizations, and prevention.
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A directory that evaluates, describes and provides links to hundreds of sites containing child development research and practical advice. Topics are selected on the basis of parent recommendations.
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Provide access to print and electronic publications and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and more.
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Well-organized site providing diagnosis and treatment information on common mental disorders, pharmacology information on selected medications, a magazine of related mental health articles, and links to other Internet resources (including ones on specific disorders).
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Links to information on cognitive milestones from birth to young adulthood. Written to inform patients and their families.
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The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.
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Links of interest to scholars, professionals, and students in the field. Information on careers, resources for the classroom, current research, etc. is included.
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Links to brochures, journals, and papers. Special feature on career information. Offers mix of scholarly and self-help resources.
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Emphasizes resources on the "science" of psychology. Information includes psychology journals on the Internet, resources listed by topic, other meta-lists of psychology-related sources, software available on the Internet, discussion groups, university psychology department home pages, and professional and student information.
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Provides links to resources relating to social and community psychology including action teaching, service learning, community building, community health, and more.
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Select a state or territory on this page to visit the website for that location's Department of Veterans Affairs office.
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The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) trains military and civilian behavioral health professionals to provide high-quality, culturally-sensitive, evidence-based behavioral health services to military personnel, Veterans and their families.
From the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Provides assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence.
From the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports and conducts research on the impact of alcohol use. It is the largest funder of alcohol research in the world.
An organization collecting data and processing statistics through the Department of Health and Human Services. This site offers the best statistics for Substance Abuse and Mental Health topics.
Grey literature exists outside of and is uncontrolled by the usual academic and commercial publishers. It includes conference proceedings, occasional and working papers, policy papers and briefs, hearings, reports, and more.
Apolitical. Case studies, analysis, news and opinions about innovation in government, used by public servants in 140+ countries. Available to students as a global weekly roundup of government innovation and leadership across all policy areas such as health, economic opportunity, gender, and digital. Navigate to the website or contact your librarian to subscribe.
Find Policy. Search for topics in leading policy research organizations.
Harvard Dataverse Network. A rapidly growing collection of social science research data, used by many authors and journals to host their replication data.
IssueLab. IssueLab gathers, indexes, and shares the collective intelligence of the social sector... [providing] free access to thousands of case studies, evaluations, white papers, and issue briefs addressing some of the world's most pressing social problems." From the Foundation Center.
PolicyArchive. A digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research). Current and historical; NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Provides data sets about macroeconomics, industry, international trade, individual income and expenditure data, etc.
Qualitative Data Repository. Project hosted at Syracuse University that curates and hosts data from qualitative social science projects. In addition, the site provides detailed guidance, written specifically for social science researchers collecting qualitative data, on key topics such as data management, research involving human participants, and teaching with qualitative data.
Searches websites of institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks. From the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
aCGS Policy Archive-- collects and archives public policy research publications from US think tanks.
Pew Research Center. A US nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.