Resources for Professionals
Professionals
In the ‘Professionals Section’ of the Resources tab, we’ve tried to assemble a myriad of resources that would be of interest to different professionals involved in helping persons diagnosed as having a mental disorder.
Physicians & Nurses
In this New York Times piece, a psychiatrist discusses the difficulties of providing “Talk Therapy” versus “Pill Therapy” in our current healthcare system:
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/08/pills-over-therapy-to-treat-depression-video/?a_dgi=aolshare_email
Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen argue that changing our view of the action of psychiatric drugs would help patients to become more involved with decisions about treatment:
http://www.mentalhealth.freeuk.com/howwork.pdf
From the Devon Partnership NHS Trust – Recovery Oriented Prescribing and Medicines Management Project:
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/recovery%20oriented%20prescribing.pdf
Common Behavioral and Learning Problems in Children and Alternative Nonmedical Approach: A Pediatrician’s Perspective by DuBose Ravenel, MD, FAAP:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7530/is_200807/ai_n32298771/?tag=content;col1
Developing non-toxic approaches to helping children who could be diagnosed with ADHD and their families: Reflections of a UK clinician by Sami Timimi:
http://www.critpsynet.freeuk.com/TimimiEHPP.htm
Stimulant Treatment of ADD/ADHD: Concerns about Adverse Effects by DuBose Ravenel:
http://psychrights.org/research/Digest/ADHD/DRavenel2FDAonADHD3-06.pdf
A Cyber-Community by a nurse for nurses. This blog is designed to connect, educate, and activate nurses and medical personnel on the promotion of human rights issues and to reject violations of present day biological and coercive psychiatry:
http://www.nurses4humanrights.org/
Questions to ask yourself, reflect on, and obtain answers to, concerning your client’s medication use
Counselors and Social Workers
Counselors and Social Workers are often on the front line in working with persons diagnosed as mentally ill. Resources in the ‘Counselors and Social Workers’ section of the Resources tab are intended to provide research based information to clinicians to enhance their work with persons seeking help:
Psychiatric Medications Roles and Issues
Critical Think Rx: A Prescription for Critical Thinking about Psychotropic Medications (Audio and Video):
http://criticalthinkrx.org/
Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen argue that changing our view of the action of psychiatric drugs would help patients to become more involved with decisions about treatment:
http://www.mentalhealth.freeuk.com/howwork.pdf
The International Center for Clinical Excellence (Scott Miller):
http://centerforclinicalexcellence.com/
http://scottdmiller.com/
The Media and the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression by
Jonathan Leo & Jeffrey R. Lacasse:
http://psychrights.org/articles/LeoLacasseMediaandChemicalImbalance.pdf
Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements
and the Scientific Literature by Jeffrey R. Lacasse, Jonathan Leo:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020392
The Anxiety and Panic Internet Resource:
http://www.algy.com/anxiety/index.php
Advanced Trauma Solutions:
http://www.advancedtrauma.com/index.html
Mary Ellen Copeland – About Mental Health Recovery:
http://www.mentalhealthrecovery.com/aboutus.php
Spirituality and Recovery from Mental Disorders:
http://www.spiritualcompetency.com/recovery/lesson1.html
US Department of Veterans Affairs – Mental Health Resources:
http://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/index.asp
Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change Model for Social Workers:
http://socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com/2009/10/prochaska-and-diclementes-stages-of.html
SAMI CCOE and Drake’s Stages of Treatment:
http://www.ohiosamiccoe.cwru.edu/library/media/iddtoverview.pdf
Informed Consent
The Ethics of Informed Parental Consent to the Psychiatric Drugging of Children by Breeding, J. & Baughman, Jr, F.:
http://www.wildestcolts.com/psych_opp/b-psychiatric_drugs/2-consent_ethics.html
On the importance of Diet & Nutrition and Recovery:
http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/mhrg/journal/7_1_4.pdf
Childhood Trauma Models:
http://www.advancedtrauma.com/index.html
On Recovery:
The Repository of Recovery Resources maintained by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University:
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/repository/index.html
The Center for Mental Health aims to help to create a society in which people with mental health problems enjoy equal chances in life to those without. They focus on criminal justice and employment, with supporting work on broader mental health and public policy:
http://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/recovery/index.aspx
Madness Radio: Voices And Visions from Outside Mental Health brings you personal experiences of 'madness' from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments, and also features authors, advocates, scientists, and artists:
http://www.madnessradio.net/
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the lives of people with mental illnesses through changes in policy and law:
http://www.bazelon.org/
The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) will ensure that consumer/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care, mental health, and social policies at the state and national levels, empowering people to recover and lead a full life in the community:
http://www.ncmhcso.org/
Criminal Justice Professionals
Ohio Criminal Justice Coordinating Center of Excellence: Promoting Jail Diversion Alternatives for People with Mental Disorders (Includes C.I.T. Information):
http://cjccoe.neoucom.edu/
Other
Advocacy & Protection:
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy:
http://www.narpa.org/index.html
The Home Page of Robert Whitaker – Author of ‘Mad in America’ and ‘Anatomy of an Epidemic’:
http://www.madinamerica.com/madinamerica.com/Home.html
Alliance for Human Research Protection:
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/18/87/
International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry:
http://psychintegrity.org/
The Freedom Center:
http://www.freedom-center.org/about-us
Lost & Found in America (LAFIA):
http://www.lafia.org/
Mental Health/Psychiatric Advance Directives
The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives
Mental Health/Psychiatric advance directives are relatively new legal instruments that may be used to document a competent person’s specific instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment. Mental Health/Psychiatric advance directives can be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness.
The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives provides comprehensive information about Advance Directives for Consumers, Family Members and Legal Professionals. The website has examples of what these Directives look like as well as brief video presentations discussing all aspects of Advance Directives:
http://www.nrc-pad.org/
Ten commonly asked questions about Psychiatric Advance Directives for Ohio:
http://www.nrc-pad.org/content/view/181/67/
The Ohio Legal Rights Service: for people with disabilities
The Ohio Legal Rights Service (LRS) is an independent agency of the State of Ohio. LRS is designated under federal law as the system to protect and advocate the rights of people with disabilities and as the Client Assistance Program under the Rehabilitation Act. The LRS Commission is the governing authority of LRS
In Ohio, "advance directives" is the term used to describe three types of legal documents you can complete to express your wishes regarding your future health care: (1) a durable power of attorney for health care (POA), (2) a declaration for mental health treatment, and (3) a living will. An advance directive can be an important tool for you as a consumer of mental health and other disability services to guide your care should your attending physician determine that you lack capacity to make your own health care choices:
http://www.olrs.ohio.gov/topic-advance-directives
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
http://www.bazelon.org/Where-We-Stand/Self-Determination/Advance-Directives.aspx
Presentation on Advance Directives from University of North Carolina – at Chapel Hill:
http://ssw.unc.edu/rti/presentation/PDFs/PADs_recovery.pdf
