Treatment Programs

Alcohol Abuse and Crime: 1998 recommendations to the Office of Justice Programs. Link also to other OJP and DOJ Reports.

Blueprints for Violence Prevention: Includes 10 Model Programs that were selected from a review of over 450 violence prevention programs.

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence: In an effort to establish more complete and valuable information to impact violence-related policies, programs, and practices, CSPV works from a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of bridges between the research community and the practitioners and policy makers.

Clinical Trials.Gov: The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.

Community Crisis Response Team Training Manual: Put out by the U.S. Department of Justice, you can read any of the 18 chapters or 7 appendices.

Expert Consensus Guideline Series: Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians.

Diverting Children From a Life of Crime: Read this on-line or order it as a Rand Report.

Mayo Clinic: The Mayo Clinic has grown to three clinics and four hospitals in Minnesota, Florida and Arizona that treat more than 400,000 patients each year, supported by extensive research and education programs. Search for specific treatments from their home page.

Mental Health: The left side of the screen contains a list of the most common mental disorders. To select a disorder, click on its name. Information on each disorder includes the following: American description, European description, treatment information, research information, information booklets, and magazine articles.

Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General: Review this report and other Surgeon General reports dating back to 1964. Also, obtain information on conferences, workshops, and other publications.

Mental Health Net: Listed in alphabetical order are not only common mental health problems and disorders (and links therein to treatment information), but also a wide variety of other health and medical issues.

Mental Health Treatment Centers: Includes general information about treatment centers, answers to frequently asked questions, and a directory with names and locations of treatment centers by state. Click on the home page for more general information, including mental health topics, a bookstore, a self-help store, and more.

Science and Pseudoscience Review: The purpose of Science & Pseudoscience Review in Mental Health is to promote the understanding of the scientific study of mental health problems and the empirically supported treatments available.

Seclusion and Restraints: Reducing the Use of Seclusion and Restraints: Findings, Strategies, and Recommendations from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): This Federal agency is charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.

Threat Assessment: Threat Assessment: An Approach To Prevent Targeted Violence. A 14 page report offered through the National Institute of Justice Research.

Treatment Reduces Violence: New study confirms treatment reduces violence in individuals with major psychiatric disorders by half.

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Last modified: March 14, 2001