Chapter 12 - Social Work in Health, Rehabilitation and Mental Health

General Resources

Social Statistics Briefing Room - provides access to current health statistics

Combined Health Information Database - health related resources and searchable data bases

Healthfinder - comprehensive site focusing on health related topics

Centers for Disease Control - organizational information, news, health information, data and statistics, links to state and local health department web sites, online publications

Professional Organizations

Association of Oncology Social Work - organizational information, links

Public Health

Department of Public Health - Norway - homepage with links to information about public health services in Norway

Oncology Social Work

Onco Link - University of Pennsylvania web site with comprehensive information and links to resources about all aspects of cancer; art gallery, including children's art; newsletters; section of psychosocial support; web site search capabilities

Hospice

Hospice of Larimer County - homepage of Colorado hospice detailing information about hospice, services, the hospice team, grief and bereavement support

Pam's Hospice Page - homepage of hospice nurse; information about history of hospice, and facts about hospice; links to resources for caregivers, and about grief, cancer, pain, and hospice programs and services

Hospice Hands Online Community - Hospice of Central Florida; information about the philosophy of hospice, online articles, comprehensive index of web resources

Hospitals

Cleveland Clinic Foundation Social Work Department - homepage highlights departmental activities, information on current research projects and publications, including some online documents, links to other web sites

AIDS/HIV

AIDS Virtual Library - comprehensive list of web resources indexed by topics

HIV Institute - "gateway to AIDS knowledge" sponsored by University of California; information on topics such as prevention, medial updates, transgender health, social issues, international aspects, and state-by-state index of programs

AEGIS - AIDS Education Global Information System comprehensive AIDS/HIV data base, with news, forums, reading room with online articles, and topics index for easy access to an archive of over a half million documents

UN AIDS - Joint UN program on AIDS; site search tool, profile of programs, news updates, online articles

AIDS Resource List - comprehensive index of regional, national, and international web resources

Rehabilitation/Disability

Council on Canadians with Disabilities - information about topical issues, Newsletters, public health policy, human rights issues, international work in the area of disabilities

Disability NOW - UK publication homepage, news, features, website links, on-line archive

National Rehabilitation Information Center - homepage presents "information for independence," including five online searchable and browsable databases

Family Village: Global Community of Disability Resources - "comprehensive resources, communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with disabilities and their families"; site includes such areas as a shopping mall for adaptive devises and accessibility aids, spiritual resources, health links, links to disability research programs, resources for families of children who have disabilities, links to resources for recreation, library of resources indexed by diagnoses and by general topic area

Parents Helping Parents - website dedicated to parents of children with special needs

American Sign Language - alphabet, numbers (1-10), and terms indexed alphabetically with instructions or animations for sign language

Deaf World Web - comprehensive deaf resources on the Internet, including deaf world news, ASL dictionary, links to resources

American Foundation for the Blind - fact sheets, talking books information, Helen Keller archival collection, including photographs and papers

Cornucopia of Disability Information - comprehensive site on disability; includes links to government documents, statistics, bibliographies, publications, and other information about disabilities

Down Syndrome - educational resources, family essays and poems, healthcare guidelines, toy store, medical articles, links

Mental Health

National Mental Health Knowledge Exchange Network - news, publications, managed care

National Institute of Mental Health - general information about NIMH, such as mission, history, organizational chart; information on specific mental disorders; news; research and reports

Mental Health Infosource- topically indexed links on mental health

Dr Bob's Mental Health Links - comprehensive index by topics related to mental health

Mental Health Dictionary Online - comprehensive index to mental health issues

Dr Ivan's Depression Central - clearinghouse of information on depression, such as types, population groups, eating disorders, and genetics; links to other WWW resources

Mental Health Net - comprehensive mental health information, including symptoms, treatment, online resources and organizations indexed by type of mental disorder

Addictions

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse- organizational information, newsletter, resources and extensive bibliographies online, information on related topic areas such as women's prevention and treatment issues, workplace and EAP, and youth

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - (SAMHSA) program information, grants, statistics, links to related programs and services

PREVLINE Prevention Online - (SAMHSA) alcohol and drug facts, searchable databases, research and statistics, publications catalog, links to Internet resources

National Institute on Drug Abuse - information on drug abuse, publications, therapy manuals, research repots, extensive links to related organizations

Web of Addictions - collection of links to fact sheets on the Internet, list of web resources, information on groups related to addictions, in-depth information on selected topics

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