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recommended links
Depression Is Real Coalition
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ABIL: Agoraphobics Building
Independant Lives -
Agoraphobia and Panic
Disorder Foundation -
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America - Anxiety Network Australia
- Anxiety-Panic.Com
- AnxietyZone
- Army Behavioral Health
- BrainPhysics - OCD
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Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments - Children of Hoarders
- Choices in Mental Health (UK)
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Dart Foundation: Gateway to PTSD
information -
David Baldwin's
Trauma Information Pages - e-couch free personal self-help guide
- EMDR Institute, Inc.
- EMDR Network Japan
- Fear of Flying course (free)
- Healthy Minds
- Information for People with Anxiety Disorders
- Internet Guide to REBT, CBT
- Living with a Brain Disorder
- Morita Therapy
- Mayo Clinic : Depression
- Mayo Clinic : GAD
- Mayo Clinic : OCD
- Mayo Clinic : Panic Attacks
- Mayo Clinic : PTSD
- Mayo Clinic : Social Anxiety
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Medicines.org.uk - Anxiety &
Depression guides - Mind-Your-Mind Canada
- National Center for PTSD
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National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) - No Such Thing As Crazy
- OCD Action, UK
- OCD Ireland
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Open Minds, Open Doors
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- Paniccure.com
- Partners With PTSD
- Prescription Drug Information
- Psychiatric Service Dog Society
- PsychNews
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Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy (REBT) - Sane Australia
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Shyness & Social Anxiety
Service of Australia -
Social Phobia/Social Anxiety
Association - Social Anxiety Support board
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South African Depression &
Anxiety Group - Suicide Prevention Help
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tAPir - the Anxiety Panic
internet resource -
The Panic Center (Free
CBT based programs) - The School of OCD
- UN-WHO Drug Trials Database
- U.S. Army Behavioral Health - PTSD
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"just don't smoke"
"Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke."
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- Menthol cigarettes harder to quit
- Secondhand smoke in cars serious threat to kid's health
- Starting smoking young increases addiction risk
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Smoking doesn't slim girls;
stunts boys' growth - 40 reasons why you should quit smoking
- Pregnant smokers 'prime' their kids to smoke
- Smoking related coronary artery disease quickly reversed if young smokers quit
- Not ready to quit? Try cutting back
- Half smoking again within year of lung cancer surgery
- Cutting back 'compensation' increases toxin load per cigarette
- Tobacco companies upped nicotine level 11% since 1998
- Workplace passive smoke increases lung cancer risk
- Hooked by genes: The DNA sequences cigarette companies love
- Smoking causes long lasting changes to brain's bio chemistry
- Nicotine receptor stimulant trebles the odds of stopping smoking
- Bupropion, nortriptyline double chances of quitting
- Nicotine's powerful role in reinforcing smoking
- Pregnant smokers raise child's risk of stroke, heart attack
- Smoking linked to pancreatic cancer
- Neurobiology of Smokers' Cravings
- 'Low cancer risk' cigarettes as deadly as regular kind
- Quitting reduces lung cancer death risk by 70%
- Fetal nicotine exposure linked to teen attention problems
- Outdoor second-hand smoke exposure can harm
- Response to day's first cigarette predicts ease of quitting
- 'Healthy' children of smoking parents aren't really so healthy
- Children of smokers have up to five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
- Smoking increases risk of dementia
- Smoking kills even after quitting
- Antenatal second hand smoke exposure increases child's psychological problems
- Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
- Just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
- Smokers less likely to survive early stage lung cancer
- Smokeless tobacco delivers carcinogens more efficiently than cigarettes!
- Smoking permanently turns on genes that increase lung cancer susceptibility
- Secondhand smoke a health hazard for pets too
- Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results
- Smoking doesn't burn fat
- Smoking linked to sagging breasts
- No evidence waterpipes decrease smoking harm
- Tobacco smoke + alcohol damage hearts more than either alone
anti torture campaign
- Torture experts write APA policy
- [APA] still rocked by torture debate
- Petition for psychologists
- AMA president says APA "did not accurately represent our ethical guidelines"
- Psychologists Aiding Torturers
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Annual conference endorses
APA's torture policy :( - Physicians for Human Rights call on Congress to vote No on Military Commissions Bill
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Torture is a Form of Trauma;
Trauma Causes PTSD - Psychoanalysts' association condemns torture use
- Humiliating, inhumane or degrading treatment IS torture
- Two American psychologists accused of war crimes. U.S. DoD investigating.
- DoD report proves psychologists central to POW/detainee abuse (pdf)
- 40 psychologists demand APA change policy on torture (pdf)
- Did the American Psychological Association turn a blind eye to torture for medicine precribing rights?
- Will psychologists still abet torture?
- Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award Over Interrogation Policy
- Guantanamo Medical Role Likened to South Africa Under Apartheid
Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. General John (Jeff) Kimmons, has stated that no actionable intelligence had been obtained through abusive interrogation methods in the last 5 years.
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[England] DoH announces new schemes to improve access to psychological therapy
posted Wednesday, 1 August 2007
The Department of Health has announced eleven new sites for 'Pathfinder' schemes, which will allow people with anxiety and depression better access to psychological therapies specifically designed for their local communities.
The eleven successful areas will be providing innovative schemes specifically designed for their local communities, to help individuals to gain quick access to psychological therapy services. This includes a scheme in Derby which will help to tackle the mental health needs of people from black and other ethnic minority communities in the most deprived areas of the city. This service will focus on people who are unemployed or in danger of losing their employment. In Salford the project will help women with pre and post-natal mental health problems and providing patients with diabetes with psychological support.
All these services are designed to reduce the time that patients are ill and allow them to regain their independence, particularly in returning to work and finding new jobs. The areas will be getting a share of £2.2 million and follow the success of two pilot schemes in Doncaster and Newham.
Announcing the new sites, new Mental Health Minister Ivan Lewis said "Mental well being is one of the great challenges facing a modern society. Depression and anxiety are classless conditions which can equally destroy the life of the top business executive and the unemployed, low paid worker."
"We know that mental health problems have a serious impact on both families and our economy. They account for a significant proportion of sick leave in all sections of the labour market.
"These pathfinders point the way to a radical overhaul of mental health services with a much greater focus in future on creating access to talking therapies which ensure people are supported to make a rapid and sustainable recovery."
The 11 new sites are:Derby City PCT (East Midlands)
The project will improve access to talking therapies for people from black and other ethnic minority communities in the most deprived areas of Derby. This service will focus on people who are unemployed or in danger of losing their employment. The site will further develop strong partnerships with local voluntary sector community groups and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to purchase additional CBT therapy and Community Development Workers who will provide direct access to people from these communities, who often find it difficult to access mainstream services.
Stoke-on-Trent PCT (West Midlands)
Stoke-on-Trent will develop a Healthy Minds Network (HMN) of three teams that will provide a number of services to GP practices, including evenings and weekends, to improve the general well-being of their patients. This will include peer educators working with local communities to help them access the right service for their needs.
Brighton & Hove PCT (South East Coast)
Brighton and Hove will be given support and money to improve access to psychological therapies. Brighton is made up of a diverse population and we need to tailor our services to meet the range of need in the City in a sensitive and appropriate way. Although, we already have big plans to improve these services, the additional resources will make this work more quickly and to reduce waiting times significantly.
North Tees and Hartlepool PCTs (North East)
The Open Doors service is an innovative approach to improving access to psychological therapy in Hartlepool and Stockton. Working with GP practices, NHS Direct and local employers, the project aims to offer effective support and treatment for those suffering from depression and anxiety, particularly as a direct result of a long-term medical condition, such as diabetes or heart disease.
Ealing PCT (London)
The Ealing Pathfinder site will be investing resources in additional Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) staff to deliver more rapid access to psychological therapies in the Borough. We will also be developing more culturally specific psychological therapy services within Southall e.g. translating Chris Williams self-help book 'Overcoming Depression' into Punjabi language audio CDs.
Hertfordshire PCT (East of England)
Hertfordshire PCT already have a track record of success of delivering psychological therapies within Enhanced Primary Mental Health Care services. They are now in a position to expand these services and develop an additional site. They are very keen to focus on psychological interventions for post-natal depression and developing services for people with long term medical conditions.
East Riding of Yorkshire PCT (Yorkshire & Humber)
The East Riding Pathfinder site will expand its training in basic CBT to ensure that services are offered for older people and patients with long term conditions. The service will work with partners from across the voluntary sector to ensure that there is plurality of service provision and expertise in the delivery in this much needed area.
Salford PCT (North West)
Salford's psychological services have been redesigned and expanded, and are based on a stepped care model. This ensures that patients get timely access, and are directed from the GP to an appropriate practitioner with the right skills to help them. We are developing new care pathways for women with pre and post-natal mental health problems, and also to people with diabetes who need psychological support.
Buckinghamshire (South Central)
The Buckinghamshire Pathfinder site builds on the recently completed redesign of Psychological Services within local specialist Mental Health Trust and ongoing development of specialist mental health teams in doctors surgeries.
Dorset PCT (South West)
Dorset PCT will improve access to psychological therapies for working age adults with added focus on improving the mental health of people with long term conditions, such as diabetes. Priority will also be given to strengthening access to mental health care for offenders in the four prisons in the County.
Bury PCT (North West)
Bury PCT is working closely with the voluntary sector to develop primary care based psychological services for young people. Work undertaken by the Be Healthy sub-group of the Children and Young People's Partnership, (including considerable consultation work), has identified significant unmet mental health need amongst children, young people and their families and a need for much more early intervention work to prevent relatively minor problems from escalating.
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