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1. 1-800-Therapist.com - "A referral organization which has licensed therapists who personally match you with an expert sensitive and experienced in the dealing with the issues you are facing. Site also provides many self help tools, articles, and information to assist in the process of locating a local mental health specialist."
2. 365Tests: Discover the Real You - "Free and fun personality quizzes you'll love. Click here to start (no registration required)!"
3. ADHD and Addiction: What's The Connection? - "A U.S. national safety project to help raise awareness on ADHD and Addiction"
4. All About Counseling - general resource site.
5. AllTheTests.com - An online test search engine and your guide through the jungle of different tests on the Internet from IQ to Personality.
6. Alternative Mental Health - "Providing workable, ethical alternatives to psychiatric drugging, electroshock and psychosurgery."
7. American Association of Retired Persons
8. American Heart Association
9. American Psychiatric Association
10. American Psychology Association: Help Center - This site by the American Psychology Association provides information on how psychology can help with problems such as stress, depression, and serious illness. Resources are also available to help you decide when and how to access psychological services and how to find a psychologist where you live (in the U.S. and Canada).
11. American Psychological Assoc: PsychNET
12. Art Therapy on the Web - art therapy links, job vacancies and articles.
13. Assisted Living Directory - "Comprehensive Listing of Assisted Living Facilities and Senior Care Providers in the United States. Assisted Living Directory is dedicated to providing a starting point for your research into assisted living and long term care. We also provide videos and articles related to caregiving, assisted living, Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias."
14. Assisted Senior Living - "A comprehensive and unbiased directory with over 100,000 senior living options including assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospice care organizations, in-home senior care services and Alzheimer's care centers."
15. David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages - "These Trauma Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) and dissociation, whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. The purpose of this award winning site is to provide information for clinicians and researchers in the traumatic-stress field. Specifically, my interests here include both clinical and research aspects of trauma responses and their resolution."
16. Be Your Own Therapist Newsletter
17. Behavior OnLine
18. BlahTherapy: Talk Therapy Online and Counseling Services - On-Line chat for free as either a listener or venter. Founded (April 2010) and operated "by a single individual who has had moments just like you - where we really needed to speak to someone." Editor's Note: User registration was suspended in early 2021, but you can use the service anonymously for free without an account. If you notice registration re-open, please contact us so we can update this notice.
19. Body-Mind QueenDom - "This site offers a variety of personality, intelligence and health-related tests, plenty of personal stories and advice columns, numerous articles on mental and women's health and much more."
20. Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
21. Choice in Dying - provides advance directives, counseling, and educational information on end-of-life issues. You may download a state specific "advance directives package" (PDF) which contains forms for a living will and a medical power of attorney (which may also be called a "health care proxy" or "appointment of a health care agent").
22. Christians in Recovery
23. Classics in the History of Psychology - full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 20 books and over 100 articles and chapters on-line.
24. Condolence Phrases - "Feel free to us our condolence phrases and other sympathy information to help those you love at their time of grief."
25. Crisis, Grief and Healing
26. Creating the Optimal Living Environment For a Child with ADHD - "Children with ADHD often need help keeping their bedrooms and environments organized. In fact, creating an environment in which there’s a place for everything and everything is in its place actually allows many children with ADHD to thrive."

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1. Dr. Bob's Virtual En-psych-lopedia
2. Drug Dangers - "Drug Dangers is committed to providing information on a range of medications and medical devices that have serious complications."
3. Dual Diagnosis Website - Dual diagnosis Web site for co-occurring mental illness and substance disorders. Comprehensive resources included.
4. Families Under Construction -A place where users will find carefully crafted tools that provide practical solutions for building,maintaining, and repairing families.
5. Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry Links - by David Willshire
6. Free IQ Tests - From the International High IQ Society. This site offers seven tests that can measure different aspects of intelligence. Each online test is free and results are available immediately upon completion. If you score 126 and above can become a member of the society.
7. Free IQ Tests - From PB International. Free online IQ tests for adults designed as a fun way to test your intelligence and learn more about various IQ tests and their histories.

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1. GriefNet - GriefNet is a virtual social service community linking resources on death, grief, and major loss to those who seek them.
2. Growth House, Inc. - resources for life-threatening illness and end of life issues.
3. Hypnotists - The National Guild
4. Implicit Association Test - Yale University - a new method that demonstrates public-private and conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. It also displays the method in a do-it-yourself demonstration form. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.

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1. Journal of Psychiatry Online
2. Med-Psych Network - collection of summaries of new research articles on topics where medicine and psychiatry overlap, along with a large collection of mental health links.
3. JudysHighHeels.com: Inspiration with Style - "An inspirational website for Women to Embrace, Empower, Inspire and Enjoy - Women Connecting Women with High Heels!"
4. mhacf.org - Mental Health Association of Central Florida.
5. Mental Help - Site includes news, a glossary of mental health terms, a symptoms list, info on common disorders and treatment, an archive of previous articles, and help in finding treatment.
6. Mental Health Resources: About - with original feature articles on mental health issues.

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1. NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness - "The National Alliance on Mental Illness is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic and other severe anxiety disorders, and other mental illnesses that affect the brain."
2. National Institute of Mental Health Site offers information from NIMH about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. Included are brochures and information sheets, reports, press releases, fact sheets, and other educational materials
3. Pendulum's Bipolar / Manic-Depression Pages
4. Personality and Consciousness - Sketches of various personality theories and theorists.
5. Phobia List, The
6. PsyBroadcasting - Online panels for mental health professionals
7. Psych Central
8. Psychology.Com - "Let Psychology.com help you find the help you need. Use our resources to find a professional mental health therapist."
9. Psychology Degree 411 - "Psychology Degree 411 is a comprehensive resource for prospective students interested in pursuing a degree in psychology or becoming a psychologist."
10. Psychology of Color - Colors often have different meanings in various cultures. And even in Western societies, the meanings of various colors have changed over the years. But today in the U.S., researchers have generally found the following the facts presented on this site by InfoPlease to be accurate.
11. Psychological Type Profiles - latest versions of the 16 psychological types, with related links.
12. Psychology of Imprisonment - This site features an extensive slide show and information about this classic investigation into the psychology of prison life. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions posed in this simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.
13. PsychNet - UK - "An independent Psychological Web Site developed as a jump-off point, thereby allowing mental health professionals to access other psychologically based sites quickly and easily. Our mission is to search and integrate all available World Wide Web information sources, relevant, and of interest to mental health professionals in all the various disciplines and specialities."
14. Psych Central - Extensive collection of articles, commentaries, and lists pertaining to mental health.
15. Psycoloquy
16. PTSD & The Supports Available - "Learning about PTSD can help you to not only identify the condition, but also manage it successfully."

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1. Resources For Psychology Students - "This compilation of psychology job resources has been assembled with the goal of helping you organize and simplify your job search."
2. The Recovery Village - A comprehensive substance abuse and eating disorder treatment facility.
3. SA\VE: Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education
4. SelfImprovement.org - "Self-Improvement Tips for a Happy, Prosperous and Harmonious Life."
5. Senate Special Committee on Aging
6. SeniorNet
7. Shyness Home Page
8. Stress Management Techniques - This site helps you to understand stress and what causes it, and introduces the idea of your 'optimum stress level.' The articles presented show you how to analyze and plan to control stress as well as examining good stress management techniques available.
9. Suicide.Com - Depression Web Sites

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1. Taking the Kids Out - "Taking the kids out for the day. Find free things to do in UK and make a day out with the kids one to remember. Whether you are looking for free things to do with kids or visiting theme parks in uk, you are sure to find a great adventure here."
2. Teen Rehab: Mental Health and Addiction Help Resources - "Teen Rehab is a national organization that connects teens with addictions to treatment centers in the 50 states. Get help for the teen in your life today!"
3. Terry Calle's Sleep Resources - A site focused on sleep health with a sellp calculator, sleep guide, sleep aid, and sleep research summaries.
4. Treatment Centers Directory - "Substance addiction destroys lives. Treatment Centers Directory is committed to helping addicts and their families to overcome drug addiction and alcoholism. We provide a 24-hour toll-free addiction helpline, with trained addiction treatment counselors standing by to help you now. We also provide a complete directory of drug treatment centers throughout the US."

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