This section includes a broad range of behavioral health topics
related to stress, trauma, bereavement, etc. Also presents general
mental health issues.
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
(APNA)
Provides leadership to advance psychiatric-mental health nursing practice,
improve mental health care for individuals, families, groups and communities
and shape health policy.
Association
of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (ACAPN)
Promotes the mental health of infants, children, adolescents and families
through clinical practice, public policy and research. The group was
formerly known as Advocates for Child Psychiatric Nursing.
Developmental
Disabilities Community Nurses Coalition (DDCNC) Provides peer support, enhance nursing practice and promote
quality community based health care for people with mental retardation
and other developmental disabilities in Massachusetts.
General and Mental Health
Problems
Provided with the hope that they will be useful resources and are not
intended to be a substitute for consultation with a medical or licensed
professional.
The
Global Health Network
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Issues
in Mental Health Nursing Designed to expand the literature on the psychosocial and mental
health aspects of nursing care currently available to students, educators,
and practitioners.
Journal
of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Provides an international forum for the publication of original
contributions that lead to the advancement of psychiatric and mental
health nursing practice.
Journal of Psychosocial
Nursing and Mental Health Services Provides the most up-to-date practical information available
for today's psychosocial nurse. Original articles and regular features,
such as Continuing Education Quiz, Professionally Speaking.
Perspectives
in Psychiatric Care:
The Journal for Nurse Psychotherapists Publishes peer-reviewed manuscripts
that will enhance nurse psychotherapists' ability to provide high quality
client services, whether in a private or agency/institutional setting.
What
Psychiatric Nurses Do Differently
Examines some of the phenomena that may be contributing to the difficulties
that nurses have in articulating and more importantly actualizing a
distinctly nursing perspective in the field of mental health.
World Association
for Infant Mental Health
Providing standards for world, infant mental health. US - with links
to infant mental health sites in other countries, including Australia.
World Federation for Mental
Health
Founded in 1948 to advance, among all peoples and nations, the prevention
of mental and emotional disorders, the proper treatment and care of
those with such disorders, and the promotion of mental health.
