Mental Health

Residential school and treatment program for troubled boys and girls from twelve to eighteen years of age. Located in southern Utah.

Offers a residential therapeutic boarding school in a ranch environment with emphasis on both treatment and education. Located in Marion, Montana.

A boarding school, promoting leadership qualities, for teenage girls who are underacheiving. Located Manchester Center, Vermont.

Atenas, Costa Rica. Independent, year-round, therapeutic boarding school for boys age 15-18, with US academic curriculum. Includes student profile, admissions information, program details, and photos.

Outdoor residential therapeutic program (New Creation) and junior and senior high school (Shepherd's Hill Academy) in Georgia for teens with emotional or behavioral problems, learning disabilities, or other special needs; based on Christian principles.

Art Psychotherapist in private practice. Information about services offered, fees, and philosophy of treatment.

Counseling, coaching and psychology via email. Dallas and online. Fee charging.

Licensed therapist offers assistance via email, with details of qualifications and areas of interest.

Linda Tilley is an Edmonton based psychologist specializing in ADHD, learning disabilities, relationships, sexual disorders, highly sensitive people, and recovery from childhood abuse.

Renee Meggs offers counselling and coaching for adults, LGBQT, couples, children, and families using a solution focused approach; psycho-educational assessments for children/teens. Blog. Banff and Canmore.

New Westminister counseling and Clinical Psychologist providing services to individuals and other professionals for a variety of issues.

Maximizing individual cognitive capacity through presentations, group seminars and personalized one-on-one sessions. Also offers training training opportunities for professionals working with cancer patients and seniors. Located in Bradford and Toronto.

Offers individual short-term and long-term psychotherapy and counseling, psychological-legal evaluations and consultation. Find details and his credentials, resources and contact information. Thornhill.

Registered psychologists providing psychological assessment and treatment to children, youth, adults and families in Brampton.

Offers therapy. Provides a history of the approach, including a discussion of the Adaptive Processing Model. Also includes references and contact information.

Information on treatment of this condition by Steven Brodsky, PhD, of New York City. Offers a free, confidential consultation by phone or email.

Trauma related research, training and policy development.

Online community provides forums, chat rooms, member stories and social networking. Also includes details of diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment options.

Provides information for helping children and teenagers with ADD or ADHD. Includes disorder types, articles for parents, school strategies, and treatment planning.

Writing Disability information page compiled by NINDS. On symptomology, treatment and prognosis.

A membership organization offering support, training, and information to service providers assisting people with a learning disability in the UK.

Provides a range of services including supported living, registered care homes, advocacy, supported employment, short-term breaks (respite) and day services. Support service for caregivers are also available.

A fellowship of men and women who share their experience strength and hope to recover from compulsive overeating. Online newsletter and meeting information.

Madrid, Spain Chapter of Overeaters Anonymous for English speakers.

An organization of people with eating disorders.

Personal coaching and classes in Seattle, Washington, or via the phone. Biography, articles, artwork, and testimonies.

St. Louis, Missouri. Dedicated residential, partial, day, and after care treatment for adults 17 or older with anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, or binge eating disorders. The program uses a 12 step approach.

Offers information, listening and support on compulsive gambling as well as referrals in Quebec, Canada.

Provides information about their 24x7 toll-free helpline, literature distribution, speakers bureau, clinical training and employee awareness training.

Offers confidential, professional counseling. Based near Schenectady, New York.

Offers a list of treatment agencies across the USA, as well as dates for lectures and workshops. Includes a description of the features of self-harm.

A user-led charity based in the United Kingdom that aims to enable people affected by bipolar to take control of their lives through information and publications, self help groups and legal and employment advice.

Provides personal experiences, describes the illness and discusses pharmacology.

Thoughts on politics, religion and music from an American lady with the illness.

Scientists have discovered a gene that makes mice happy, a finding that suggests another avenue of drugs for improving depression in humans. (December 28, 2006)

Review and excerpt from a book by Bruce E. Levine that delves into the roots of depression and links our increasingly consumer-based culture and standard-practice psychiatric treatments to worsening depression. (November 25, 2007)

Marianne Broug provides her story, articles and quotes on a view of depression as a natural part of life, and details of her book, "Seventeen Voices".

An online book by a psychiatrist about bright light therapy for depression and sleep.

Discusses phototherapy as a replacement for diminished light. (BBC)

Pioneering research psychiatrist Norman E. Rosenthal presents an article on SAD.

Free e-book on depressionoffering information on natural antidepressants. By Dr. Priscilla Slagle, MD.

Archive of information related to this disorder. Includes co-morbid conditions, coaching, recipes, organizing tips and time management, and workplace issues.

Music for the treatment of ADD, ADHD, Autism and other neurological problems in children and adults.

An audio and text weblog on Asperger's Syndrome maintained by a college professor/psychologist who specializes in this area.

Terry Gross interviews Fred Volkmar. In the early 1990s, Volkmar led the team that helped develop the definition of autism used by the American Psychiatric Assoc. [32:06 streaming audio broadcast]

Questionnaire to research and detect features of Asperger's Syndrome and related disorders in gifted adults.

Provides an overview of Asperger Syndrome and its causes, symptoms, and treatment.

Offers resources and information, including diagnostic criteria and co-morbidity.

Links to sites of interest to those involved in fields related to Special Education.

Discusses a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report showing the prevalence of autism and autism spectrum disorders among children.